Solved cryptogram
The name of my unfortunate and murdered friend was an agitation too great to be endured in my weak state; I shed tears.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus, chapter 21.
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The passage it comes from
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My father calmed me with assurances of their welfare and endeavoured, by dwelling on these subjects so interesting to my heart, to raise my desponding spirits; but he soon felt that a prison cannot be the abode of cheerfulness. "What a place is this that you inhabit, my son!" said he, looking mournfully at the barred windows and wretched appearance of the room. "You travelled to seek happiness, but a fatality seems to pursue you. And poor Clerval - "
The name of my unfortunate and murdered friend was an agitation too great to be endured in my weak state; I shed tears.
"Alas! Yes, my father," replied I; "some destiny of the most horrible kind hangs over me, and I must live to fulfil it, or surely I should have died on the coffin of Henry."
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
- Length95 letters, 18 unique
Nearby in the book
The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
- Chapter 21easy, 99 letters
- Chapter 21medium, 74 letters
- Chapter 21medium, 85 letters
- Chapter 21easy, 81 letters
About as hard as this one
Scored closest to it by the model behind our guide to solving cryptograms.
- Chapter 17easy, 97 letters
- Chapter 21easy, 100 letters
- Chapter 8easy, 89 letters
- Chapter 7easy, 96 letters
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