Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 57
The first of three cryptograms from chapter 57 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.
Hkadccyaswlhbsgbsmsbsmrsjqsvydyhgw,sbsmrxhkagpahkvgwkydwvr.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyhard
- Length57 letters, 18 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 57 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
If he had been wavering before, as to what he should do, which had often seemed likely, the advice and entreaty of so near a relation might settle every doubt, and determine him at once to be as happy as dignity unblemished could make him. In that case he would return no more. Lady Catherine might see him in her way through town; and his engagement to Bingley of coming again to Netherfield must give way.
The sentence you are solving goes here.
The surprise of the rest of the family, on hearing who their visitor had been, was very great: but they obligingly satisfied it with the same kind of supposition which had appeased Mrs. Bennet's curiosity; and Elizabeth was spared from much teasing on the subject.
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 56easy, 67 letters
- Chapter 56easy, 71 letters
- Chapter 57easy, 99 letters
- Chapter 57medium, 57 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 48hard, 66 letters
- Chapter 52hard, 57 letters
- Chapter 24hard, 83 letters
- Chapter 3hard, 54 letters
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