Les Misérables Volume IV Book 2 Chapter 3-4

In which the worn yet indomitable Father Mabeuf toils over his garden amidst the shadow of hardship, and an uncanny nocturnal visitor appears to him, offering a mysterious aid that stirs both hope and fear in his aged heart. In which Marius, caught in the throes of melancholy and aimlessness, encounters the ragged yet spirited Éponine, whose surprising knowledge and strange tenderness ignite a flicker of light within his troubled soul.