Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 53
The first of six cryptograms from chapter 53 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.
KgwwzrwBornjrhgtwbw,wzgtsz.Zjbikgwzbkswgti,pgtmkgc,rklBreitnjBkjqjncrkwwgijjzbersrbk.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyeasy
- Length80 letters, 19 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 53 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
But the spiritless condition which this event threw her into was shortly relieved, and her mind opened again to the agitation of hope, by an article of news which then began to be in circulation. The housekeeper at Netherfield had received orders to prepare for the arrival of her master, who was coming down in a day or two, to shoot there for several weeks. Mrs. Bennet was quite in the fidgets. She looked at Jane, and smiled, and shook her head, by turns.
The sentence you are solving goes here.
"You may depend on it," replied the other, "for Mrs. Nichols was in Meryton last night: I saw her passing by, and went out myself on purpose to know the truth of it; and she told me that it was certainly true. He comes down on Thursday, at the latest, very likely on Wednesday. She was going to the butcher's, she told me, on purpose to order in some meat on Wednesday, and she has got three couple of ducks just fit to be killed."
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 52easy, 68 letters
- Chapter 52hard, 75 letters
- Chapter 53easy, 62 letters
- Chapter 53medium, 54 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 48easy, 67 letters
- Chapter 56easy, 71 letters
- Chapter 59easy, 80 letters
- Chapter 16easy, 89 letters
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