Solved cryptogram
"I can comprehend your going on charmingly, when you had once made a beginning; but what could set you off in the first place?"
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 60.
The passage it comes from
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Elizabeth's spirits soon rising to playfulness again, she wanted Mr. Darcy to account for his having ever fallen in love with her. "How could you begin?" said she. "I can comprehend your going on charmingly, when you had once made a beginning; but what could set you off in the first place?"
"I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun."
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: 99 letters over 20 different ones, graded easy.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyeasy
- Length99 letters, 20 of them different
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 59hard, 68 letters
- Chapter 59easy, 100 letters
- Chapter 60medium, 93 letters
- Chapter 60easy, 77 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 18easy, 100 letters
- Chapter 51easy, 100 letters
- Chapter 58easy, 88 letters
- Chapter 20easy, 89 letters
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