Solved cryptogram
There is a mixture of servility and self-importance in his letter which promises well.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 13.
The passage it comes from
The quotation is marked in the paragraph it sits in, with the prose either side of it for company.
"He must be an oddity, I think," said she. "I cannot make him out. There is something very pompous in his style. And what can he mean by apologizing for being next in the entail? We cannot suppose he would help it, if he could. Can he be a sensible man, sir?"
"No, my dear; I think not. I have great hopes of finding him quite the reverse. There is a mixture of servility and self-importance in his letter which promises well. I am impatient to see him."
"In point of composition," said Mary, "his letter does not seem defective. The idea of the olive branch perhaps is not wholly new, yet I think it is well expressed."
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: 71 letters over 20 different ones, graded medium.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultymedium
- Length71 letters, 20 of them different
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 11hard, 53 letters
- Chapter 13hard, 89 letters
- Chapter 13medium, 71 letters
- Chapter 14hard, 68 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 46medium, 61 letters
- Chapter 7medium, 59 letters
- Chapter 18medium, 77 letters
- Chapter 39medium, 58 letters
Every Pride and Prejudice cryptogram · About the collection · More by Jane Austen