Cryptogram from Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus, chapter 9
The fourth of ten cryptograms from chapter 9 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.
Lymxc,Ldvvuqsvcnqlmmxzvmb;jxrnwvxdbsvqnovxklmlxm,nmtbsnbzxmdlwoqov.Nunq!
- Written byMary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Taken fromFrankenstein; or, the modern prometheus
- Difficultymedium
- Length67 letters, 19 unique
Where it comes from
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote it in chapter 9 of Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus. Here is the prose either side of it, with the sentence you are solving left out.
Our house was the house of mourning. My father's health was deeply shaken by the horror of the recent events. Elizabeth was sad and desponding; she no longer took delight in her ordinary occupations; all pleasure seemed to her sacrilege toward the dead; eternal woe and tears she then thought was the just tribute she should pay to innocence so blasted and destroyed. She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecstasy of our future prospects. The first of those sorrows which are sent to wean us from the earth had visited her, and its dimming influence quenched her dearest smiles.
The sentence you are solving goes here.
One paragraph next to it is a cryptogram here in its own right, so it is left out too: the medium one from chapter 9.
Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.
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Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
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