Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 14
A cryptogram from chapter 14 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.
Juxvtqjjwdbvtvatjcznvc,yocyruvtdjgvcvhkqvtyukjoxvnxjdv"Rjtcinv'dDvtgjod."
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyhard
- Length68 letters, 20 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 14 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
By tea-time, however, the dose had been enough, and Mr. Bennet was glad to take his guest into the drawing-room again, and when tea was over, glad to invite him
The sentence you are solving goes here.
"Do you know, mamma, that my uncle Philips talks of turning away Richard? and if he does, Colonel Forster will hire him. My aunt told me so herself on Saturday. I shall walk to Meryton to-morrow to hear more about it, and to ask when Mr. Denny comes back from town."
Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.
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