Cryptogram from Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus, chapter 8
The fourth 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.
Cqspfscz,Unscbabqkalvddapkiq;sfffaayqcabiqslsrpqkhncaaiqckauebaiubzsbcdqpcukuab.RnskhavfcUca?
- Written byMary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Taken fromFrankenstein; or, the modern prometheus
- Difficultyeasy
- Length89 letters, 19 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.
"Rise, my poor girl," said Elizabeth; "why do you kneel, if you are innocent? I am not one of your enemies, I believed you guiltless, notwithstanding every evidence, until I heard that you had yourself declared your guilt. That report, you say, is false; and be assured, dear Justine, that nothing can shake my confidence in you for a moment, but your own confession."
The sentence you are solving goes here.
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."
Text from the Project Gutenberg edition, which is in the public domain in the United States.
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