Excerpt from Phil Mays Illustrated Winter Annual, 1896 So it had been with Octave Bontemps. When the old housekeeper of the Seigneur lifted the half-frozen man-child from the little quilt which wrapped it round, she said, God save my heart, but this is in good time, and so Bontemps the child was called. The two children were also called Octave and Zoe respectively, because those were the names of the people in whose houses they had been brought up. 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.