Excerpt from Modeste Mignon About the beginning of the month of October, 1829, Monsieur simon-babylas Latournelle, a notary, went up from Havre to Ingouville arm in arm with his son, and accompanied by his wife, near whom walked, like a page, the head clerk of the office, a little hunchback named Jean Butscha. When these four persons - two of whom made this journey every evening - arrived at the bend of the road which turns back-upon itself like those which the Italians call corniches, the notary, from the height of a terrace, looked about him behind and before, to make sure that no one could hear him and then, as an extra precaution, lowered his voice. 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.