Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 46
The third of ten cryptograms from chapter 46 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.
Eoxjpztujknefpztudtartbtpztlfuvp,dcpRsjkkfppzrkhvfraafxzre.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyhard
- Length57 letters, 20 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 46 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
Without allowing herself time for consideration, and scarcely knowing what she felt, Elizabeth, on finishing this letter, instantly seized the other, and opening it with the utmost impatience, read as follows: it had been written a day later than the conclusion of the first.
The sentence you are solving goes here.
"Oh! where, where is my uncle?" cried Elizabeth, darting from her seat as she finished the letter, in eagerness to follow him, without losing a moment of the time so precious; but as she reached the door, it was opened by a servant, and Mr. Darcy appeared. Her pale face and impetuous manner made him start, and before he could recover himself enough to speak, she, in whose mind every idea was superseded by Lydia's situation, hastily exclaimed, "I beg your pardon, but I must leave you. I must find Mr. Gardiner this moment on business that cannot be delayed; I have not an instant to lose."
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 46medium, 61 letters
- Chapter 46medium, 98 letters
- Chapter 46medium, 75 letters
- Chapter 46easy, 83 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
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- Chapter 7hard, 51 letters
- Chapter 51hard, 59 letters
- Chapter 33hard, 57 letters
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