Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 29
The third of ten cryptograms from chapter 29 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.
Zpumyeyzumycezpswgy,umyvmzjztryzpzguezrhnszlnqumzrszdwryzfcnppumytzch.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyhard
- Length68 letters, 20 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 29 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
While they were dressing, he came two or three times to their different doors, to recommend their being quick, as Lady Catherine very much objected to be kept waiting for her dinner. Such formidable accounts of her Ladyship, and her manner of living, quite frightened Maria Lucas, who had been little used to company; and she looked forward to her introduction at Rosings with as much apprehension as her father had done to his presentation at St. James's.
The sentence you are solving goes here.
When they ascended the steps to the hall, Maria's alarm was every moment increasing, and even Sir William did not look perfectly calm. Elizabeth's courage did not fail her. She had heard nothing of Lady Catherine that spoke her awful from any extraordinary talents or miraculous virtue, and the mere stateliness of money and rank she thought she could witness without trepidation.
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 29hard, 62 letters
- Chapter 29easy, 100 letters
- Chapter 29hard, 57 letters
- Chapter 29medium, 64 letters
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- Chapter 52hard, 57 letters
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- Chapter 3hard, 54 letters
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