Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 60
The third of five cryptograms from chapter 60 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.
Bwjxadbxmkndkmuaojirokfkxdcwrrbxkffdaiazokwykomkfbokaukqrokffbxyiazoyowdbdzmk.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyeasy
- Length77 letters, 18 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 60 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
"How unlucky that you should have a reasonable answer to give, and that I should be so reasonable as to admit it! But I wonder how long you would have gone on, if you had been left to yourself. I wonder when you would have spoken if I had not asked you! My resolution of thanking you for your kindness to Lydia had certainly great effect. Too much, I am afraid; for what becomes of the moral, if our comfort springs from a breach of promise, for I ought not to have mentioned the subject? This will never do."
The sentence you are solving goes here.
"Lady Catherine has been of infinite use, which ought to make her happy, for she loves to be of use. But tell me, what did you come down to Netherfield for? Was it merely to ride to Longbourn and be embarrassed? or had you intended any more serious consequences?"
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 60easy, 99 letters
- Chapter 60medium, 93 letters
- Chapter 60medium, 59 letters
- Chapter 60easy, 99 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 41easy, 83 letters
- Chapter 38easy, 62 letters
- Chapter 46easy, 84 letters
- Chapter 33easy, 79 letters
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