Solved cryptogram
You could not have started a more happy idea, since you will not take comfort in mine: believe her to be deceived, by all means.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 21.
The passage it comes from
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"If we thought alike of Miss Bingley," replied Jane, "your representation of all this might make me quite easy. But I know the foundation is unjust. Caroline is incapable of wilfully deceiving anyone; and all that I can hope in this case is, that she is deceived herself."
"That is right. You could not have started a more happy idea, since you will not take comfort in mine: believe her to be deceived, by all means. You have now done your duty by her, and must fret no longer."
"But, my dear sister, can I be happy, even supposing the best, in accepting a man whose sisters and friends are all wishing him to marry elsewhere?"
Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.
Solve it yourself
This quotation is a cryptogram here: 100 letters over 21 different ones, graded easy.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyeasy
- Length100 letters, 21 of them different
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 20easy, 100 letters
- Chapter 21easy, 96 letters
- Chapter 21medium, 85 letters
- Chapter 22hard, 55 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 54easy, 90 letters
- Chapter 26easy, 75 letters
- Chapter 29easy, 85 letters
- Chapter 44easy, 97 letters
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