Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 49
The first of three cryptograms from chapter 49 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.
Hxuynbovvlwquulvquwvpkzeqbqckhuqczmsqwvt,ubqthsswqrqclquqcrqpvmqbziij!
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyhard
- Length68 letters, 22 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 49 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
"I comfort myself with thinking," replied Jane, "that he certainly would not marry Lydia, if he had not a real regard for her. Though our kind uncle has done something towards clearing him, I cannot believe that ten thousand pounds, or anything like it, has been advanced. He has children of his own, and may have more. How could he spare half ten thousand pounds?"
The sentence you are solving goes here.
"We must endeavour to forget all that has passed on either side," said Jane: "I hope and trust they will yet be happy. His consenting to marry her is a proof, I will believe, that he is come to a right way of thinking. Their mutual affection will steady them; and I flatter myself they will settle so quietly, and live in so rational a manner, as may in time make their past imprudence forgotten."
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 48hard, 68 letters
- Chapter 48easy, 67 letters
- Chapter 49medium, 55 letters
- Chapter 49easy, 62 letters
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Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 52hard, 75 letters
- Chapter 43hard, 62 letters
- Chapter 23hard, 63 letters
- Chapter 52hard, 64 letters
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