Solved cryptogram
"I did not think you would; and that being the case, I cannot consider your situation with much compassion."
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 21.
The passage it comes from
The quotation is marked in the paragraph it sits in, with the prose either side of it for company.
"How can you talk so?" said Jane, faintly smiling; "you must know, that, though I should be exceedingly grieved at their disapprobation, I could not hesitate."
"I did not think you would; and that being the case, I cannot consider your situation with much compassion."
"But if he returns no more this winter, my choice will never be required. A thousand things may arise in six months."
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: 85 letters over 20 different ones, graded medium.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultymedium
- Length85 letters, 20 of them different
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 21easy, 96 letters
- Chapter 21easy, 100 letters
- Chapter 22hard, 55 letters
- Chapter 22easy, 99 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 26medium, 95 letters
- Chapter 29medium, 64 letters
- Chapter 5medium, 82 letters
- Chapter 47medium, 60 letters
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