Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 43
The first of eleven cryptograms from chapter 43 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.
Aeirqbgsqofibjhqbxi,qcpyvcaqwcipxbiqafqbwiajvdxbvkcp.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyhard
- Length51 letters, 20 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 43 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
Elizabeth, as they drove along, watched for the first appearance of Pemberley Woods with some perturbation; and when at length they turned in at the lodge, her spirits were in a high flutter.
The sentence you are solving goes here.
Elizabeth's mind was too full for conversation, but she saw and admired every remarkable spot and point of view. They gradually ascended for half a mile, and then found themselves at the top of a considerable eminence, where the wood ceased, and the eye was instantly caught by Pemberley House, situated on the opposite side of the valley, into which the road with some abruptness wound. It was a large, handsome stone building, standing well on rising ground, and backed by a ridge of high woody hills; and in front a stream of some natural importance was swelled into greater, but without any artificial appearance. Its banks were neither formal nor falsely adorned. Elizabeth was delighted. She had never seen a place for which nature had done more, or where natural beauty had been so little counteracted by an awkward taste. They were all of them warm in their admiration; and at that moment she felt that to be mistress of Pemberley might be something!
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 42easy, 92 letters
- Chapter 42hard, 52 letters
- Chapter 43hard, 51 letters
- Chapter 43medium, 60 letters
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- Chapter 44hard, 61 letters
- Chapter 55hard, 50 letters
- Chapter 31hard, 62 letters
- Chapter 25hard, 52 letters
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