Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 31
The third of four cryptograms from chapter 31 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.
Fuamakocofwqqbmllaoocqbwfyafucflaxamzclqacmfbqavmksufalajcffuarkiibvbfuamo.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultymedium
- Length74 letters, 19 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 31 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
When coffee was over, Colonel Fitzwilliam reminded Elizabeth of having promised to play to him; and she sat down directly to the instrument. He drew a chair near her. Lady Catherine listened to half a song, and then talked, as before, to her other nephew; till the latter walked away from her, and moving with his usual deliberation towards the pianoforte, stationed himself so as to command a full view of the fair performer's countenance. Elizabeth saw what he was doing, and at the first convenient pause turned to him with an arch smile, and said, -
The sentence you are solving goes here.
"I shall not say that you are mistaken," he replied, "because you could not really believe me to entertain any design of alarming you; and I have had the pleasure of your acquaintance long enough to know, that you find great enjoyment in occasionally professing opinions which, in fact, are not your own."
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 31medium, 96 letters
- Chapter 31hard, 81 letters
- Chapter 31hard, 62 letters
- Chapter 32hard, 79 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 43medium, 84 letters
- Chapter 60medium, 59 letters
- Chapter 43medium, 80 letters
- Chapter 11medium, 87 letters
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