Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 38
The third of three cryptograms from chapter 38 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.
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- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyhard
- Length73 letters, 21 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 38 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
Words were insufficient for the elevation of his feelings; and he was obliged to walk about the room, while Elizabeth tried to unite civility and truth in a few short sentences.
The sentence you are solving goes here.
Elizabeth could safely say that it was a great happiness where that was the case, and with equal sincerity could add, that she firmly believed and rejoiced in his domestic comforts. She was not sorry, however, to have the recital of them interrupted by the entrance of the lady from whom they sprang. Poor Charlotte! it was melancholy to leave her to such society! But she had chosen it with her eyes open; and though evidently regretting that her visitors were to go, she did not seem to ask for compassion. Her home and her housekeeping, her parish and her poultry, and all their dependent concerns, had not yet lost their charms.
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 38easy, 98 letters
- Chapter 38easy, 62 letters
- Chapter 39medium, 58 letters
- Chapter 39medium, 77 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 42hard, 61 letters
- Chapter 54hard, 53 letters
- Chapter 34hard, 67 letters
- Chapter 5hard, 70 letters
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