Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 26
The fifth of five cryptograms from chapter 26 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.
OfnkkdlpokrdallxnlOxnlbxbgnlnqq,dglxnlOnhoklxbqbntlakmoqqokzldlxoksxbgnebgjzddrtdgldpzogq.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyeasy
- Length88 letters, 20 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 26 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
Mrs. Gardiner about this time reminded Elizabeth of her promise concerning that gentleman, and required information; and Elizabeth had such to send as might rather give contentment to her aunt than to herself. His apparent partiality had subsided, his attentions were over, he was the admirer of some one else. Elizabeth was watchful enough to see it all, but she could see it and write of it without material pain. Her heart had been but slightly touched, and her vanity was satisfied with believing that she would have been his only choice, had fortune permitted it. The sudden acquisition of ten thousand pounds was the most remarkable charm of the young lady to whom he was now rendering himself agreeable; but Elizabeth, less clear-sighted perhaps in this case than in Charlotte's, did not quarrel with him for his wish of independence. Nothing, on the contrary, could be more natural; and, while able to suppose that it cost him a few struggles to relinquish her, she was ready to allow it a wise and desirable measure for both, and could very sincerely wish him happy.
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The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 26medium, 67 letters
- Chapter 26medium, 95 letters
- Chapter 27easy, 83 letters
- Chapter 27hard, 59 letters
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- Chapter 59easy, 87 letters
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- Chapter 46easy, 85 letters
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