Solved cryptogram
In everything else she is as good-natured a girl as ever lived.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 20.
The passage it comes from
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"Pardon me for interrupting you, madam," cried Mr. Collins; "but if she is really headstrong and foolish, I know not whether she would altogether be a very desirable wife to a man in my situation, who naturally looks for happiness in the marriage state. If, therefore, she actually persists in rejecting my suit, perhaps it were better not to force her into accepting me, because, if liable to such defects of temper, she could not contribute much to my felicity."
"Sir, you quite misunderstand me," said Mrs. Bennet, alarmed. "Lizzy is only headstrong in such matters as these. In everything else she is as good-natured a girl as ever lived. I will go directly to Mr. Bennet, and we shall very soon settle it with her, I am sure."
She would not give him time to reply, but hurrying instantly to her husband, called out, as she entered the library, -
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Solve it yourself
This quotation is a cryptogram here: 50 letters over 15 different ones, graded easy.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyeasy
- Length50 letters, 15 of them different
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 19medium, 74 letters
- Chapter 19easy, 99 letters
- Chapter 20easy, 89 letters
- Chapter 20medium, 52 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 51easy, 78 letters
- Chapter 7easy, 84 letters
- Chapter 55easy, 98 letters
- Chapter 20easy, 100 letters
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