Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 51
The eighth of eight cryptograms from chapter 51 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.
Pimkvpghcvdydgigjvwvymnmsilng,cytnoymoqnbo,jhccnvonmgijvcucynm;uhgdjvqyddygndlnvoqngjmimv.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultymedium
- Length86 letters, 20 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 51 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
On such encouragement to ask, Elizabeth was forced to put it out of her power, by running away.
The sentence you are solving goes here.
"You may readily comprehend," she added, "what my curiosity must be to know how a person unconnected with any of us, and, comparatively speaking, a stranger to our family, should have been amongst you at such a time. Pray write instantly, and let me understand it - unless it is, for very cogent reasons, to remain in the secrecy which Lydia seems to think necessary; and then I must endeavour to be satisfied with ignorance."
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 51medium, 90 letters
- Chapter 51easy, 100 letters
- Chapter 52hard, 57 letters
- Chapter 52hard, 64 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 31medium, 96 letters
- Chapter 46medium, 53 letters
- Chapter 4medium, 87 letters
- Chapter 54medium, 60 letters
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