Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 20
The first of four cryptograms from chapter 20 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.
Hojljvfuthoejakjktjhkxkeggc-oxuqvjcxehvaxkjljvahljc.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyeasy
- Length50 letters, 15 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 20 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
"Pardon me for interrupting you, madam," cried Mr. Collins; "but if she is really headstrong and foolish, I know not whether she would altogether be a very desirable wife to a man in my situation, who naturally looks for happiness in the marriage state. If, therefore, she actually persists in rejecting my suit, perhaps it were better not to force her into accepting me, because, if liable to such defects of temper, she could not contribute much to my felicity."
The sentence you are solving goes here.
She would not give him time to reply, but hurrying instantly to her husband, called out, as she entered the library, -
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 19medium, 74 letters
- Chapter 19easy, 99 letters
- Chapter 20easy, 89 letters
- Chapter 20medium, 52 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 51easy, 78 letters
- Chapter 7easy, 84 letters
- Chapter 55easy, 98 letters
- Chapter 20easy, 100 letters
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