Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 15
The second of two cryptograms from chapter 15 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.
Dkibvjabiodjmaxoksitzlkdahpanivcokiivzfl,pfsdkicbpvdiszfyxdxptljjsabzvzda.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultymedium
- Length72 letters, 20 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 15 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
Mr. Denny and Mr. Wickham walked with the young ladies to the door of Mr. Philips's house, and then made their bows, in spite of Miss Lydia's pressing entreaties that they would come in, and even in spite of Mrs. Philips's throwing up the parlour window, and loudly seconding the invitation.
The sentence you are solving goes here.
As they walked home, Elizabeth related to Jane what she had seen pass between the two gentlemen; but though Jane would have defended either or both, had they appeared to be wrong, she could no more explain such behaviour than her sister.
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 14hard, 68 letters
- Chapter 15medium, 79 letters
- Chapter 16easy, 86 letters
- Chapter 16easy, 76 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 18medium, 58 letters
- Chapter 10medium, 70 letters
- Chapter 50medium, 87 letters
- Chapter 25medium, 74 letters
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