Solved cryptogram
I am sorry for her, because, with her disposition, she may not get over it immediately.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 25.
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"I never saw a more promising inclination; he was growing quite inattentive to other people, and wholly engrossed by her. Every time they met, it was more decided and remarkable. At his own ball he offended two or three young ladies by not asking them to dance; and I spoke to him twice myself without receiving an answer. Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?"
"Oh, yes! of that kind of love which I suppose him to have felt. Poor Jane! I am sorry for her, because, with her disposition, she may not get over it immediately. It had better have happened to you, Lizzy; you would have laughed yourself out of it sooner. But do you think she would be prevailed on to go back with us? Change of scene might be of service - and perhaps a little relief from home may be as useful as anything."
Elizabeth was exceedingly pleased with this proposal, and felt persuaded of her sister's ready acquiescence.
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 21 different ones, graded hard.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyhard
- Length68 letters, 21 of them different
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 25medium, 74 letters
- Chapter 25easy, 70 letters
- Chapter 25hard, 52 letters
- Chapter 26hard, 58 letters
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- Chapter 11hard, 53 letters
- Chapter 34hard, 56 letters
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- Chapter 5hard, 51 letters
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