Les Misérables Volume II Book 8 Chapter 7 - In Which Will Be Found the Origin of the Saying...

In which a night’s sombre toil at a graveyard entwines the fates of a peasant and a newly appointed grave-digger, leading to a curious episode involving a forgotten card and a narrowly avoided fine beneath the dying light of day. Through a blend of kindness, misfortune, and the quiet persistence of human endeavour, a life apparently lost is revived, and debts both literal and moral are settled amidst the silence of the tomb.