Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 21
The second of three cryptograms from chapter 21 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.
Jpreprwbqpfyvndxfvofdbvlpodyvttjkbdv,xkqedjprakwwqpffvgdeplmpofkqlkqd:sdwkdndydofpsdbdedkndb,sjvwwldvqx.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyeasy
- Length100 letters, 21 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 21 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
"If we thought alike of Miss Bingley," replied Jane, "your representation of all this might make me quite easy. But I know the foundation is unjust. Caroline is incapable of wilfully deceiving anyone; and all that I can hope in this case is, that she is deceived herself."
The sentence you are solving goes here.
"But, my dear sister, can I be happy, even supposing the best, in accepting a man whose sisters and friends are all wishing him to marry elsewhere?"
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 20easy, 100 letters
- Chapter 21easy, 96 letters
- Chapter 21medium, 85 letters
- Chapter 22hard, 55 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 54easy, 90 letters
- Chapter 26easy, 75 letters
- Chapter 29easy, 85 letters
- Chapter 44easy, 97 letters
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