Solved cryptogram
Young women should always be properly guarded and attended, according to their situation in life.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 37.
The passage it comes from
The quotation is marked in the paragraph it sits in, with the prose either side of it for company.
"You are all kindness, madam; but I believe we must abide by our original plan."
Lady Catherine seemed resigned. "Mrs. Collins, you must send a servant with them. You know I always speak my mind, and I cannot bear the idea of two young women travelling post by themselves. It is highly improper. You must contrive to send somebody. I have the greatest dislike in the world to that sort of thing. Young women should always be properly guarded and attended, according to their situation in life. When my niece Georgiana went to Ramsgate last summer, I made a point of her having two men-servants go with her. Miss Darcy, the daughter of Mr. Darcy of Pemberley, and Lady Anne, could not have appeared with propriety in a different manner. I am excessively attentive to all those things. You must send John with the young ladies, Mrs. Collins. I am glad it occurred to me to mention it; for it would really be discreditable to you to let them go alone."
"My uncle is to send a servant for us."
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: 81 letters over 20 different ones, graded medium.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultymedium
- Length81 letters, 20 of them different
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 36easy, 80 letters
- Chapter 37medium, 61 letters
- Chapter 37hard, 73 letters
- Chapter 38easy, 98 letters
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Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 46medium, 61 letters
- Chapter 7medium, 59 letters
- Chapter 18medium, 77 letters
- Chapter 39medium, 58 letters
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