Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 3
The first of three cryptograms from chapter 3 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.
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- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyhard
- Length54 letters, 18 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 3 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
Elizabeth Bennet had been obliged, by the scarcity of gentlemen, to sit down for two dances; and during part of that time, Mr. Darcy had been standing near enough for her to overhear a conversation between him and Mr. Bingley, who came from the dance for a few minutes to press his friend to join it.
The sentence you are solving goes here.
"I certainly shall not. You know how I detest it, unless I am particularly acquainted with my partner. At such an assembly as this, it would be insupportable. Your sisters are engaged, and there is not another woman in the room whom it would not be a punishment to me to stand up with."
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.
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
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- Chapter 29hard, 65 letters
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