Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 42
The first of four cryptograms from chapter 42 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.
Gsdusmi,sdissq,lwjmvweojswmstljxlwodtsjevgsxsg;lwjlrrtodxoszdvejvqsdiomtluuowsddzsgsvxsgitgvzw.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyeasy
- Length91 letters, 17 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 42 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
The sentence you are solving goes here.
Elizabeth, however, had never been blind to the impropriety of her father's behaviour as a husband. She had always seen it with pain; but respecting his abilities, and grateful for his affectionate treatment of herself, she endeavoured to forget what she could not overlook, and to banish from her thoughts that continual breach of conjugal obligation and decorum which, in exposing his wife to the contempt of her own children, was so highly reprehensible. But she had never felt so strongly as now the disadvantages which must attend the children of so unsuitable a marriage, nor ever been so fully aware of the evils arising from so ill-judged a direction of talents - talents which, rightly used, might at least have preserved the respectability of his daughters, even if incapable of enlarging the mind of his wife.
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 41hard, 66 letters
- Chapter 41hard, 61 letters
- Chapter 42hard, 61 letters
- Chapter 42easy, 92 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 43easy, 95 letters
- Chapter 11easy, 92 letters
- Chapter 51easy, 100 letters
- Chapter 7easy, 85 letters
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