Solved cryptogram
Nothing but concern for Elizabeth could enable Bingley to keep his countenance.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 9.
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"Certainly, my dear, nobody said there were; but as to not meeting with many people in this neighbourhood, I believe there are few neighbourhoods larger. I know we dine with four-and-twenty families."
Nothing but concern for Elizabeth could enable Bingley to keep his countenance. His sister was less delicate, and directed her eye towards Mr. Darcy with a very expressive smile. Elizabeth, for the sake of saying something that might turn her mother's thoughts, now asked her if Charlotte Lucas had been at Longbourn since her coming away.
"Yes, she called yesterday with her father. What an agreeable man Sir William is, Mr. Bingley - is not he? so much the man of fashion! so genteel and so easy! He has always something to say to everybody. That is my idea of good breeding; and those persons who fancy themselves very important and never open their mouths quite mistake the matter."
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: 67 letters over 20 different ones, graded hard.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyhard
- Length67 letters, 20 of them different
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 9hard, 70 letters
- Chapter 9easy, 61 letters
- Chapter 10hard, 64 letters
- Chapter 10easy, 98 letters
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- Chapter 44hard, 52 letters
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- Chapter 29hard, 57 letters
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