James Joyce's _A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man_ (c. 1914)

"[. . .] and, even when he [Stephen Dedalus] doubted some statement of a master [Catholic Priest], he had never presumed to doubt openly. Lately some of their judgments had sounded a little childish in his ears and had made him feel a regret and pity as though he were slowly passing out of an accustomed world and hearing its language for the last time." --see photo below.