Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 40
A cryptogram from chapter 40 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.
Hcvrfgrnfhoourzhxjnyzsxaombnjphym,pzspHsxitrfhvimqmtgxrxmvpxrtmnvyrvymtvmusvuhvuhkkmtmvp.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultymedium
- Length87 letters, 22 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 40 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
"I do not know when I have been more shocked," said she. "Wickham so very bad! It is almost past belief. And poor Mr. Darcy! dear Lizzy, only consider what he must have suffered. Such a disappointment! and with the knowledge of your ill opinion too! and having to relate such a thing of his sister! It is really too distressing, I am sure you must feel it so."
The sentence you are solving goes here.
"Poor Wickham! there is such an expression of goodness in his countenance! such an openness and gentleness in his manner."
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 39medium, 64 letters
- Chapter 39medium, 89 letters
- Chapter 41easy, 83 letters
- Chapter 41hard, 66 letters
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Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 6medium, 63 letters
- Chapter 54medium, 61 letters
- Chapter 5medium, 92 letters
- Chapter 47medium, 89 letters
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