📙 Excerpt from El Capitán VenenoThe story is set in 1848, and the scene IS In Madrid. At that period there was a revival of democratic im pulses in the world, on account of what was going on in France. But the unorganized many - headed masses could make only a poor showing against the organized powers of even a contemptible government.The hero and heroine of the story are of two hostile parties, a thing that often occurs in life as well as in literature.War conditions are still (1920) so present to our minds that we can easily imagine the situations called for in the story.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.