Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 5
The second of four cryptograms from chapter 5 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.
"Xyvisdcvuw!Choo,rkerceqahudwhfjwhw,jiwhhw-rkerwvhqqhhseqjt-mxr,kvchahu,jrsedeoofvshrvivrkjin,dvxpivc."
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultymedium
- Length92 letters, 22 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 5 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
"Perhaps you mean what I overheard between him and Mr. Robinson: did not I mention it to you? Mr. Robinson's asking him how he liked our Meryton assemblies, and whether he did not think there were a great many pretty women in the room, and which he thought the prettiest? and his answering immediately to the last question, 'Oh, the eldest Miss Bennet, beyond a doubt: there cannot be two opinions on that point.'"
The sentence you are solving goes here.
"My overhearings were more to the purpose than yours, Eliza," said Charlotte. "Mr. Darcy is not so well worth listening to as his friend, is he? Poor Eliza! to be only just tolerable."
Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.
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