The Man Who Laughs Part II, Book the Fourth, Chapter VII - Shuddering

In which Gwynplaine, thrust suddenly from the sunlight into the gloom of a shadowed passage, confronts the disquieting silence and mystery of his unknown fate under the heavy hand of the law. His accustomed strength wanes as the stark reality of confinement and the inscrutable justice before him unnerve his spirit, leaving him to grapple with fear and the profound solitude of his circumstance.