The Man Who Laughs Part I, Book the First, Chapter VII - The North Point of Portland

In which a child, tormented by an encounter with death and driven by instinctive fear, flees across a desolate snowy plain, wrestling with the primal needs of hunger and shelter amidst the indifferent vastness of nature. As he descends a perilous rocky incline towards the faint signs of human life, an approaching snowstorm adds a solemn, chilling urgency to his solitary journey.