Solved cryptogram
I never meant to deceive you, but my spirits might often lead me wrong.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 58.
The passage it comes from
The quotation is marked in the paragraph it sits in, with the prose either side of it for company.
"Indeed I had. What will you think of my vanity? I believed you to be wishing, expecting my addresses."
"My manners must have been in fault, but not intentionally, I assure you. I never meant to deceive you, but my spirits might often lead me wrong. How you must have hated me after that evening!"
"Hate you! I was angry, perhaps, at first, but my anger soon began to take a proper direction."
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: 56 letters over 21 different ones, graded hard.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyhard
- Length56 letters, 21 of them different
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 58easy, 88 letters
- Chapter 58hard, 59 letters
- Chapter 58hard, 71 letters
- Chapter 58medium, 66 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 31hard, 62 letters
- Chapter 25hard, 52 letters
- Chapter 24hard, 60 letters
- Chapter 55hard, 50 letters
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