Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 54
The third of seven cryptograms from chapter 54 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.
"Jqzezdyqfd'jivezfdcxfwjby,Hfeczjzwehdzc.Tztfdjdvdzvpjqze;cvtz?"
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyeasy
- Length57 letters, 16 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 54 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
The gentlemen came; and she thought he looked as if he would have answered her hopes; but, alas! the ladies had crowded round the table, where Miss Bennet was making tea, and Elizabeth pouring out the coffee, in so close a confederacy, that there was not a single vacancy near her which would admit of a chair. And on the gentlemen's approaching, one of the girls moved closer to her than ever, and said, in a whisper, -
The sentence you are solving goes here.
Darcy had walked away to another part of the room. She followed him with her eyes, envied everyone to whom he spoke, had scarcely patience enough to help anybody to coffee, and then was enraged against herself for being so silly!
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 54medium, 61 letters
- Chapter 54hard, 88 letters
- Chapter 54hard, 53 letters
- Chapter 54easy, 90 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 19easy, 72 letters
- Chapter 11easy, 82 letters
- Chapter 21easy, 96 letters
- Chapter 54easy, 89 letters
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