Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 36
The first of three cryptograms from chapter 36 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.
Skuyfbkgostzfsgszuog,fshbalygvsubyawooabafogiydog,kfofshaoxoglotusdbkfylbarebgbam.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultymedium
- Length79 letters, 21 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 36 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.
She perfectly remembered everything that had passed in conversation between Wickham and herself in their first evening at Mr. Philips's. Many of his expressions were still fresh in her memory. She was now struck with the impropriety of such communications to a stranger, and wondered it had escaped her before. She saw the indelicacy of putting himself forward as he had done, and the inconsistency of his professions with his conduct. She remembered that he had boasted of having no fear of seeing Mr. Darcy - that Mr. Darcy might leave the country, but that he should stand his ground; yet he had avoided the Netherfield ball the very next week. She remembered, also, that till the Netherfield family had quitted the country, he had told his story to no one but herself; but that after their removal, it had been everywhere discussed; that he had then no reserves, no scruples in sinking Mr. Darcy's character, though he had assured her that respect for the father would always prevent his exposing the son.
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 35easy, 83 letters
- Chapter 35medium, 88 letters
- Chapter 36hard, 57 letters
- Chapter 36easy, 80 letters
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Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 25medium, 74 letters
- Chapter 8medium, 55 letters
- Chapter 61medium, 67 letters
- Chapter 19medium, 74 letters
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