Solved cryptogram
My father and mother knew nothing of that; they only felt how imprudent a match it must be.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 47.
The passage it comes from
The quotation is marked in the paragraph it sits in, with the prose either side of it for company.
"And till Colonel Forster came himself, not one of you entertained a doubt, I suppose, of their being really married?"
"How was it possible that such an idea should enter our brains? I felt a little uneasy - a little fearful of my sister's happiness with him in marriage, because I knew that his conduct had not been always quite right. My father and mother knew nothing of that; they only felt how imprudent a match it must be. Kitty then owned, with a very natural triumph on knowing more than the rest of us, that in Lydia's last letter she had prepared her for such a step. She had known, it seems, of their being in love with each other many weeks."
"But not before they went to Brighton?"
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: 72 letters over 21 different ones, graded hard.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyhard
- Length72 letters, 21 of them different
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 47easy, 91 letters
- Chapter 47medium, 60 letters
- Chapter 47hard, 51 letters
- Chapter 48hard, 66 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 59hard, 52 letters
- Chapter 11hard, 64 letters
- Chapter 56hard, 57 letters
- Chapter 41hard, 61 letters
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