Excerpt from Andr??? a Tragedy in Five Acts These are but a few of the phases of the fact which fit it for fiction, and they are apparent to all. But behind all these there is a fatal defect, inherent and ineradicable, which - so it seems to me - will forever prevent the writing of a satisfactory drama on this subject. This defect is that the story has two heroes, and that one of these heroes is a traitor and the other a spy. The mainspring of the plot is ignoble it is the vulgar treachery of a spendthrift selling his ...
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Excerpt from Andr??? a Tragedy in Five Acts These are but a few of the phases of the fact which fit it for fiction, and they are apparent to all. But behind all these there is a fatal defect, inherent and ineradicable, which - so it seems to me - will forever prevent the writing of a satisfactory drama on this subject. This defect is that the story has two heroes, and that one of these heroes is a traitor and the other a spy. The mainspring of the plot is ignoble it is the vulgar treachery of a spendthrift selling his country for money to pay his debts. Arnold was a man of small motives, chief among which were envy and petty pique; he was a coward who fled when his plot was discovered, leaving his accomplice in the lurch and descending to the incredible meanness of surrendering to the British the men who rowed the boat in whichmum. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This 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.
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