Death of a Hero. Richard Aldington

was “interviewed” by his House Master and the Head – but he baffled them with the hate-obstinate silence, and the inner exultation he felt in being Sinful and Smutty in his own way, along with Keats and Turner and Shakespeare.

      The prefects gave him a good many “prefects’ lickings” on various pretexts, but they never made him cry, even, let alone break down the wall between his inner aliveness and their thorough manliness.