Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 24
The fifth of six cryptograms from chapter 24 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.
Rxtghsbzsxajxyspivoxiddzgbktpbszfxpirpdhhzkgpmnxnpbnyvmygthjxys.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultymedium
- Length63 letters, 20 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 24 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
"To oblige you, I would try to believe almost anything, but no one else could be benefited by such a belief as this; for were I persuaded that Charlotte had any regard for him, I should only think worse of her understanding than I now do of her heart. My dear Jane, Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man: you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who marries him cannot have a proper way of thinking. You shall not defend her, though it is Charlotte Lucas. You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade yourself or me, that selfishness is prudence, and insensibility of danger security for happiness."
The sentence you are solving goes here.
"And men take care that they should."
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 24medium, 71 letters
- Chapter 24hard, 60 letters
- Chapter 24hard, 83 letters
- Chapter 25medium, 74 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 39medium, 58 letters
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