Solved cryptogram

Our instrument is a capital one, probably superior to - - you shall try it some day.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, chapter 29.

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The passage it comes from

The quotation is marked in the paragraph it sits in, with the prose either side of it for company.

"A little."

"Oh then - some time or other we shall be happy to hear you. Our instrument is a capital one, probably superior to - - you shall try it some day. Do your sisters play and sing?"

"One of them does."

Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.

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