Solved cryptogram
Other books were produced, and after some deliberation he chose "Fordyce's Sermons."
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 14.
The passage it comes from
The quotation is marked in the paragraph it sits in, with the prose either side of it for company.
By tea-time, however, the dose had been enough, and Mr. Bennet was glad to take his guest into the drawing-room again, and when tea was over, glad to invite him
to read aloud to the ladies. Mr. Collins readily assented, and a book was produced; but on beholding it (for everything announced it to be from a circulating library) he started back, and, begging pardon, protested that he never read novels. Kitty stared at him, and Lydia exclaimed. Other books were produced, and after some deliberation he chose "Fordyce's Sermons." Lydia gaped as he opened the volume; and before he had, with very monotonous solemnity, read three pages, she interrupted him with, -
"Do you know, mamma, that my uncle Philips talks of turning away Richard? and if he does, Colonel Forster will hire him. My aunt told me so herself on Saturday. I shall walk to Meryton to-morrow to hear more about it, and to ask when Mr. Denny comes back from town."
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: 68 letters over 20 different ones, graded hard.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyhard
- Length68 letters, 20 of them different
Nearby in the book
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- Chapter 13medium, 71 letters
- Chapter 13medium, 71 letters
- Chapter 15medium, 79 letters
- Chapter 15medium, 72 letters
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- Chapter 51hard, 59 letters
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