Modest Mignon (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Modest Mignon AT the beginning of October, 1829, Monsieur. Simon Babylas Latournelle, notary, was walking up from Havre to Ingouville, arm in arm with his son and ao companied by his wife, at whose side the head clerk of the lawyer's office, a little hunchback named Jean But Soha, trotted along like a page. When these four per sonages (two of whom came the same way every evening) reached the elbow of the road where it turns back upon itself like those called in Italy cornice, the notary looked about to see if any one could overhear him either from the terrace above or the path beneath, and when he spoke he lowered his voice as a further precaution. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.