Solved cryptogram
"What do you think? It is excellent news, capital news, and about a certain person that we all like."
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 39.
The passage it comes from
The quotation is marked in the paragraph it sits in, with the prose either side of it for company.
"Yes," thought Elizabeth; "that would be a delightful scheme, indeed, and completely do for us at once. Good Heaven! Brighton and a whole campful of soldiers, to us, who have been overset already by one poor regiment of militia, and the monthly balls of Meryton!"
"Now I have got some news for you," said Lydia, as they sat down to table. "What do you think? It is excellent news, capital news, and about a certain person that we all like."
Jane and Elizabeth looked at each other, and the waiter was told that he need not stay. Lydia laughed, and said, -
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: 77 letters over 19 different ones, graded medium.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultymedium
- Length77 letters, 19 of them different
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 38hard, 73 letters
- Chapter 39medium, 58 letters
- Chapter 39easy, 77 letters
- Chapter 39medium, 64 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 43medium, 84 letters
- Chapter 31medium, 74 letters
- Chapter 60medium, 59 letters
- Chapter 43medium, 80 letters
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