Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 31
The fourth of four cryptograms from chapter 31 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.
Hpphfsygteefyepecfjitdtkfnfplcfsithnxpbrshecthwshxecthnashethn.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyhard
- Length62 letters, 20 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 31 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
"My fingers," said Elizabeth, "do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many women's do. They have not the same force or rapidity, and do not produce the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault - because I would not take the trouble of practising. It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman's of superior execution."
The sentence you are solving goes here.
Here they were interrupted by Lady Catherine, who called out to know what they were talking of. Elizabeth immediately began playing again. Lady Catherine approached, and, after listening for a few minutes, said to Darcy, -
Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.
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Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 31hard, 81 letters
- Chapter 31medium, 74 letters
- Chapter 32hard, 79 letters
- Chapter 33hard, 57 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 25hard, 52 letters
- Chapter 58hard, 56 letters
- Chapter 24hard, 60 letters
- Chapter 55hard, 50 letters
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