Les Misérables Volume II Book 5 Chapter 6 - The Beginning of an Enigma

In which Jean Valjean and the child Cosette find themselves hidden in a vast, somber garden shadowed by grim, barred buildings, their refuge marked by silence and gloom as distant, menacing sounds fade away. Suddenly, a celestial hymn—pure, innocent, and ineffably beautiful—arises from the darkness, compelling them to kneel in awe within this deserted and mysterious place.