Solved cryptogram
Not handsome enough to dance with! I wish you had been there, my dear, to have given him one of your set-downs.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 3.
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Here she was interrupted again. Mr. Bennet protested against any description of finery. She was therefore obliged to seek another branch of the subject, and related, with much bitterness of spirit, and some exaggeration, the shocking rudeness of Mr. Darcy.
"But I can assure you," she added, "that Lizzy does not lose much by not suiting his fancy; for he is a most disagreeable, horrid man, not at all worth pleasing. So high and so conceited, that there was no enduring him! He walked here, and he walked there, fancying himself so very great! Not handsome enough to dance with! I wish you had been there, my dear, to have given him one of your set-downs. I quite detest the man."
Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.
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This quotation is a cryptogram here: 85 letters over 19 different ones, graded easy.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyeasy
- Length85 letters, 19 of them different
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