Solved cryptogram
No motive can excuse the unjust and ungenerous part you acted there.
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.
As she pronounced these words, Mr. Darcy changed colour; but the emotion was short, and he listened without attempting to interrupt her while she continued, -
"I have every reason in the world to think ill of you. No motive can excuse the unjust and ungenerous part you acted there. You dare not, you cannot deny that you have been the principal, if not the only means of dividing them from each other, of exposing one to the censure of the world for caprice and instability, the other to its derision for disappointed hopes, and involving them both in misery of the acutest kind."
She paused, and saw with no slight indignation that he was listening with an air which proved him wholly unmoved by any feeling of remorse. He even looked at her with a smile of affected incredulity.
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 19 different ones, graded hard.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyhard
- Length56 letters, 19 of them different
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 33easy, 79 letters
- Chapter 33hard, 62 letters
- Chapter 34hard, 54 letters
- Chapter 34hard, 67 letters
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Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 11hard, 53 letters
- Chapter 1hard, 76 letters
- Chapter 25hard, 68 letters
- Chapter 5hard, 51 letters
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