Solved cryptogram
Hear me in silence. My daughter and my nephew are formed for each other.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 56.
The passage it comes from
The quotation is marked in the paragraph it sits in, with the prose either side of it for company.
"That will make your Ladyship's situation at present more pitiable; but it will have no effect on me."
"I will not be interrupted! Hear me in silence. My daughter and my nephew are formed for each other. They are descended, on the maternal side, from the same noble line; and, on the father's, from respectable, honourable, and ancient, though untitled, families. Their fortune on both sides is splendid. They are destined for each other by the voice of every member of their respective houses; and what is to divide them? - the upstart pretensions of a young woman without family, connections, or fortune! Is this to be endured? But it must not, shall not be! If you were sensible of your own good, you would not wish to quit the sphere in which you have been brought up."
"In marrying your nephew, I should not consider myself as quitting that sphere. He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal."
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: 57 letters over 19 different ones, graded hard.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyhard
- Length57 letters, 19 of them different
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 56hard, 62 letters
- Chapter 56easy, 64 letters
- Chapter 56medium, 93 letters
- Chapter 56hard, 53 letters
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- Chapter 59hard, 52 letters
- Chapter 11hard, 64 letters
- Chapter 47hard, 72 letters
- Chapter 41hard, 61 letters
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