Sentimental Tommy -- The Story of His Boyhood

 "The celebrated Tommy first comes into view on a dirty London stair,
and he was in sexless garments, which were all he had, and he was five, and so
though we are looking at him, we must do it sideways, lest he sit down hurriedly
to hide them. That inscrutable face, which made the clubmen of his later days
uneasy and even puzzled the ladies while he was making love to them, was already
his, except when he smiled at one of his pretty thoughts or stopped at an open
door to sniff a potful. On his way up and down the stair he often paused to
sniff, but he never asked for anything; his mother had warned him against it,
and he carried out her injunction with almost unnecessary spirit, declining
offers before they were made, as when passing a room, whence came the smell of
fried fish, he might call in, "I don't not want none of your fish," or "My
mother says I don't not want the littlest bit," or wistfully, "I ain't hungry,"
or more wistfully still, "My mother says I ain't hungry.""

 - Excerpted from "Sentimental Tommy. The Story of His Boyhood"