The second paragraph from Jane Bowles's Two Serious Ladies (1943):

As a child Christina had been very much disliked by other children. She had never suffered particularly because of this, having led, even at an early age, an active inner life that curtailed her observation of whatever went on around her, to such a degree that she never picked up the mannerisms then in vogue, and by the age of ten was called old fashioned by other little girls. Even then she wore the look of certain fanatics who think of themselves as leaders without once having gained the respect of a single human being.