Cryptogram from Pride and Prejudice, chapter 39
The fourth of five cryptograms from chapter 39 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.
Pomfbemoaqrqwqxumfbdzmiwqefoprofomqnfinm.Paiuxqizgofzpqfhdibemoqx.
- Written byJane Austen
- Taken fromPride and Prejudice
- Difficultymedium
- Length64 letters, 18 of them different
Where it comes from
Jane Austen wrote it in chapter 39 of Pride and Prejudice. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
Their party in the dining-room was large, for almost all the Lucases came to meet Maria and hear the news; and various were the subjects which occupied them: Lady Lucas was inquiring of Maria, across the table, after the welfare and poultry of her eldest daughter; Mrs. Bennet was doubly engaged, on one hand collecting an account of the present fashions from Jane, who sat some way below her, and on the other, retailing them all to the younger Miss Lucases; and Lydia, in a voice rather louder than any other person's, was enumerating the various pleasures of the morning to anybody who would hear her.
The sentence you are solving goes here.
To this, Mary very gravely replied, "Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for me. I should infinitely prefer a book."
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 39medium, 77 letters
- Chapter 39easy, 77 letters
- Chapter 39medium, 89 letters
- Chapter 40medium, 87 letters
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Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 43medium, 84 letters
- Chapter 31medium, 74 letters
- Chapter 60medium, 59 letters
- Chapter 43medium, 80 letters
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