Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 19

The fourth of four cryptograms from chapter 19 of Pride and Prejudice. Every letter below stands for a different one, the same way all the way through, and no letter ever stands for itself.

Prihzmwxthjhpzhzyhjhpznxarisixzxtawxtihesyxzsuspzwxtadaxdxghqg,vtrrxhoosdrrisupghvgxqtrsqwpudxggpvqs.

Where it comes from

Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 19 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.

"You must give me leave to flatter myself, my dear cousin, that your refusal of my addresses are merely words of course. My reasons for believing it are briefly these: - It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy of your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than highly desirable. My situation in life, my connections with the family of De Bourgh, and my relationship to your own, are circumstances highly in my favour; and you should take it into further consideration that, in spite of your manifold attractions, it is by no means certain that another offer of marriage may ever be made you. Your portion is unhappily so small, that it will in all likelihood undo the effects of your loveliness and amiable qualifications. As I must, therefore, conclude that you are not serious in your rejection of me, I shall choose to attribute it to your wish of increasing my love by suspense, according to the usual practice of elegant females."

The sentence you are solving goes here.

"You are uniformly charming!" cried he, with an air of awkward gallantry; "and I am persuaded that, when sanctioned by the express authority of both your excellent parents, my proposals will not fail of being acceptable."

Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.

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