Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 39
The first of five cryptograms from chapter 39 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.
Rpeyellgryorlrfhswjiwsllj;ndlRlgedbglRvrbglufzsqqndjrlufyel.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultymedium
- Length58 letters, 20 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 39 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
After welcoming their sisters, they triumphantly displayed a table set out with such cold meat as an inn larder usually affords, exclaiming, "Is not this nice? is not this an agreeable surprise?"
The sentence you are solving goes here.
And when her sisters abused it as ugly, she added, with perfect unconcern, "Oh, but there were two or three much uglier in the shop; and when I have bought some prettier-coloured satin to trim it with fresh, I think it will be very tolerable. Besides, it will not much signify what one wears this summer, after the - - shire have left Meryton, and they are going in a fortnight."
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 38easy, 62 letters
- Chapter 38hard, 73 letters
- Chapter 39medium, 77 letters
- Chapter 39easy, 77 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 46medium, 61 letters
- Chapter 7medium, 59 letters
- Chapter 18medium, 77 letters
- Chapter 24medium, 63 letters
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