Solved cryptogram
Where there is fortune to make the expense of travelling unimportant, distance becomes no evil.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 32.
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As he spoke there was a sort of smile, which Elizabeth fancied she understood; he must be supposing her to be thinking of Jane and Netherfield, and she blushed as she answered, -
"I do not mean to say that a woman may not be settled too near her family. The far and the near must be relative, and depend on many varying circumstances. Where there is fortune to make the expense of travelling unimportant, distance becomes no evil. But that is not the case here. Mr. and Mrs. Collins have a comfortable income, but not such a one as will allow of frequent journeys - and I am persuaded my friend would not call herself near her family under less than half the present distance."
Mr. Darcy drew his chair a little towards her, and said, "You cannot have a right to such very strong local attachment. You cannot have been always at Longbourn."
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: 79 letters over 22 different ones, graded hard.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyhard
- Length79 letters, 22 of them different
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 31medium, 74 letters
- Chapter 31hard, 62 letters
- Chapter 33hard, 57 letters
- Chapter 33easy, 79 letters
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- Chapter 52hard, 57 letters
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