Solved cryptogram

The die is cast; I have consented to return if we are not destroyed.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus, chapter 24.

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The passage it comes from

The quotation is marked in the paragraph it sits in, with the prose either side of it for company.

September 7th.

The die is cast; I have consented to return if we are not destroyed. Thus are my hopes blasted by cowardice and indecision; I come back ignorant and disappointed. It requires more philosophy than I possess to bear this injustice with patience.

September 12th.

Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.

Nearby in the book

The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.

About as hard as this one

Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.

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