Solved cryptogram
Again his astonishment was obvious; and he looked at her with an expression of mingled incredulity and mortification.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 34.
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 could not have made me the offer of your hand in any possible way that would have tempted me to accept it."
Again his astonishment was obvious; and he looked at her with an expression of mingled incredulity and mortification. She went on, -
"From the very beginning, from the first moment, I may almost say, of my acquaintance with you, your manners impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form that groundwork of disapprobation, on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry."
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: 98 letters over 23 different ones, graded medium.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultymedium
- Length98 letters, 23 of them different
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 34medium, 79 letters
- Chapter 34easy, 87 letters
- Chapter 35easy, 83 letters
- Chapter 35medium, 88 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 19medium, 74 letters
- Chapter 37medium, 61 letters
- Chapter 18medium, 64 letters
- Chapter 50medium, 54 letters
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