Cryptogram from Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus, chapter 8
The fifth of seven cryptograms from chapter 8 of Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus. Every letter below stands for a different one, the same way all the way through, and no letter ever stands for itself.
Nrnttymtjjsmejklvsmzdjekxvkfdmlmynmehvyvjmzdezlcodzvmde.
- Written byMary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Taken fromFrankenstein; or, the modern prometheus
- Difficultyhard
- Length55 letters, 18 unique
Where it comes from
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote it in chapter 8 of Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
She paused, weeping, and then continued, "I thought with horror, my sweet lady, that you should believe your Justine, whom your blessed aunt had so highly honoured, and whom you loved, was a creature capable of a crime which none but the devil himself could have perpetrated. Dear William! dearest blessed child! I soon shall see you again in heaven, where we shall all be happy; and that consoles me, going as I am to suffer ignominy and death."
The sentence you are solving goes here.
Justine shook her head mournfully. "I do not fear to die," she said; "that pang is past. God raises my weakness and gives me courage to endure the worst. I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me. Learn from me, dear lady, to submit in patience to the will of heaven!"
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.
About as hard as this one
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- Chapter 1hard, 71 letters
- Chapter 16hard, 53 letters
- Chapter 6medium, 50 letters
- Chapter 11medium, 52 letters
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