Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 19
The second of four cryptograms from chapter 19 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.
Qyxbyxjurypkinwkwgihhq,iruVikbyrdvrbwupgipVikpgwjieplykirvrpgwlycjulgylyxjukinwqyxey.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyeasy
- Length83 letters, 19 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 19 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
"I am not now to learn," replied Mr. Collins, with a formal wave of the hand, "that it is usual with young ladies to reject the addresses of the man whom they secretly mean to accept, when he first applies for their favour; and that sometimes the refusal is repeated a second or even a third time. I am, therefore, by no means discouraged by what you have just said, and shall hope to lead you to the altar ere long."
The sentence you are solving goes here.
"Were it certain that Lady Catherine would think so," said Mr. Collins, very gravely - "but I cannot imagine that her Ladyship would at all disapprove of you. And you may be certain that when I have the honour of seeing her again I shall speak in the highest terms of your modesty, economy, and other amiable qualifications."
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 18easy, 97 letters
- Chapter 19easy, 72 letters
- Chapter 19medium, 74 letters
- Chapter 19easy, 99 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 34easy, 87 letters
- Chapter 38easy, 98 letters
- Chapter 46easy, 60 letters
- Chapter 11easy, 85 letters
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