Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 5
The third of four cryptograms from chapter 5 of Pride and Prejudice. Every letter below stands for a different one, the same way all the way through, and no letter ever stands for itself.
"Cjuncuru,oq'qo,Coqbpqiunbfxvocpubvlduruxkvhqdzuackwwco."
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyhard
- Length51 letters, 20 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 5 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
"Another time, Lizzy," said her mother, "I would not dance with him, if I were you."
The sentence you are solving goes here.
"His pride," said Miss Lucas, "does not offend me so much as pride often does, because there is an excuse for it. One cannot wonder that so very fine a young man, with family, fortune, everything in his favour, should think highly of himself. If I may so express it, he has a right to be proud."
Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.
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The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
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