Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 22
The second of two cryptograms from chapter 22 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.
Eopqzfczgflouosopogj,pqgsktogjpqgreopqtfge;ksscypqgngbakssijafzfojgtpcyortpqkpqgngtopkpgtkbaolwfgpafr.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyeasy
- Length99 letters, 21 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 22 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
"Believe me, my dear sir, my gratitude is warmly excited by such affectionate attention; and, depend upon it, you will speedily receive from me a letter of thanks for this as well as for every other mark of your regard during my stay in Hertfordshire. As for my fair cousins, though my absence may not be long enough to render it necessary, I shall now take the liberty of wishing them health and happiness, not excepting my cousin Elizabeth."
The sentence you are solving goes here.
The possibility of Mr. Collins's fancying himself in love with her friend had once occurred to Elizabeth within the last day or two: but that Charlotte could encourage him seemed almost as far from possibility as that she could encourage him herself; and her astonishment was consequently so great as to overcome at first the bounds of decorum, and she could not help crying out, -
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 21medium, 85 letters
- Chapter 22hard, 55 letters
- Chapter 23medium, 72 letters
- Chapter 23hard, 63 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 42easy, 92 letters
- Chapter 16easy, 76 letters
- Chapter 51easy, 65 letters
- Chapter 53easy, 62 letters
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