Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 56
The second of nine cryptograms from chapter 56 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.
Xzbtzwveredqgbyvdqxzbyzbferjhfdjjrjlwvigdssrdli.Rwqyzghfiwrzjeihijeiezjzwvisq.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyeasy
- Length76 letters, 18 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 56 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
"The engagement between them is of a peculiar kind. From their infancy, they have been intended for each other. It was the favourite wish of his mother, as well as of hers. While in their cradles we planned the union; and now, at the moment when the wishes of both sisters would be accomplished, is their marriage to be prevented by a young woman of inferior birth, of no importance in the world, and wholly unallied to the family? Do you pay no regard to the wishes of his friends - to his tacit engagement with Miss de Bourgh? Are you lost to every feeling of propriety and delicacy? Have you not heard me say, that from his earliest hours he was destined for his cousin?"
The sentence you are solving goes here.
One paragraph next to it is a cryptogram here in its own right, so it is left out too: the hard one from chapter 56.
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 55easy, 62 letters
- Chapter 56easy, 93 letters
- Chapter 56hard, 62 letters
- Chapter 56easy, 64 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 24easy, 73 letters
- Chapter 46easy, 83 letters
- Chapter 39easy, 77 letters
- Chapter 58easy, 80 letters
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