![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He no longer beheld the night he beheld a blue sky. While these voices were singing, Jean Valjean thought of nothing. It was a supernatural chant in an uninhabited house. At the moment when the hubbub of demons retreated, one would have said that a choir of angels was approaching through the gloom.Cosette and Jean Valjean fell on their knees.They knew not what it was, they knew not where they were but both of them, the man and the child, the penitent and the innocent, felt that they must kneel.These voices had this strange characteristic, that they did not prevent the building from seeming to be deserted. This song proceeded from the gloomy edifice which towered above the garden. It was a hymn which issued from the gloom, a dazzling burst of prayer and harmony in the obscure and alarming silence of the night women's voices, but voices composed at one and the same time of the pure accents of virgins and the innocent accent of children, - voices which are not of the earth, and which resemble those that the newborn infant still hears, and which the dying man hears already. 1 " From Les Miserables:All at once, in the midst of this profound calm, a fresh sound arose a sound as celestial, divine, ineffable, ravishing, as the other had been horrible. ![]()
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