Solved cryptogram
I imagined that the monster seized me; I struggled furiously and fell down in a fit.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus, chapter 5.
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"My dear Victor," cried he, "what, for God's sake, is the matter? Do not laugh in that manner. How ill you are! What is the cause of all this?"
"Do not ask me," cried I, putting my hands before my eyes, for I thought I saw the dreaded spectre glide into the room; "he can tell. Oh, save me! Save me!" I imagined that the monster seized me; I struggled furiously and fell down in a fit.
Poor Clerval! What must have been his feelings? A meeting, which he anticipated with such joy, so strangely turned to bitterness. But I was not the witness of his grief, for I was lifeless and did not recover my senses for a long, long time.
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
- Difficultymedium
- Length67 letters, 18 unique
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The puzzles either side of this one in the novel.
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