Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 50
The second of five cryptograms from chapter 50 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.
Ojcqqjaxqwvaojcxovjaozxlqwsxqqhcxagvxmyyjanasxmnamhpoccmjua.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultyhard
- Length59 letters, 18 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 50 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
"Haye Park might do," said she, "if the Gouldings would quit it, or the great house at Stoke, if the drawing-room were larger; but Ashworth is too far off. I could not bear to have her ten miles from me; and as for Purvis Lodge, the attics are dreadful."
The sentence you are solving goes here.
A long dispute followed this declaration; but Mr. Bennet was firm: it soon led to another; and Mrs. Bennet found, with amazement and horror, that her husband would not advance a guinea to buy clothes for his daughter. He protested that she should receive from him no mark of affection whatever on the occasion. Mrs. Bennet could hardly comprehend it. That his anger could be carried to such a point of inconceivable resentment as to refuse his daughter a privilege, without which her marriage would scarcely seem valid, exceeded all that she could believe possible. She was more alive to the disgrace, which her want of new clothes must reflect on her daughter's nuptials, than to any sense of shame at her eloping and living with Wickham a fortnight before they took place.
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 49easy, 62 letters
- Chapter 50medium, 87 letters
- Chapter 50hard, 54 letters
- Chapter 50easy, 94 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 48hard, 66 letters
- Chapter 52hard, 57 letters
- Chapter 24hard, 83 letters
- Chapter 3hard, 54 letters
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