Solved cryptogram
My wife and my sister will never recover from their horror. I entreat you not to reason with me any more.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus, chapter 16.
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"'Do you consider,' said his companion to him, 'that you will be obliged to pay three months' rent and to lose the produce of your garden? I do not wish to take any unfair advantage, and I beg therefore that you will take some days to consider of your determination.'
"'It is utterly useless,' replied Felix; 'we can never again inhabit your cottage. The life of my father is in the greatest danger, owing to the dreadful circumstance that I have related. My wife and my sister will never recover from their horror. I entreat you not to reason with me any more. Take possession of your tenement and let me fly from this place.'
"Felix trembled violently as he said this. He and his companion entered the cottage, in which they remained for a few minutes, and then departed. I never saw any of the family of De Lacey more.
Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.
- Written byMary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Taken fromFrankenstein; or, the modern prometheus
- Difficultyeasy
- Length83 letters, 18 unique
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 16hard, 81 letters
- Chapter 16hard, 52 letters
- Chapter 16easy, 100 letters
- Chapter 16easy, 88 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 24easy, 90 letters
- Chapter 22easy, 64 letters
- Chapter 19easy, 80 letters
- Chapter 2easy, 92 letters
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