These establishments were considered more select and less
'rough.' The social atmosphere was, however, perhaps more
unwholesome, because more effeminate, and was full of noble young
sucklings. The nominal head of the house under normal conditions
might have been a real leader; as it was, the real head of the
house was a gilded young pariah, fairly low down in the school
and full of hypocrisy and unnatural lusts. The boy who occupied
the cubicle next to mine was also a bad case of sexual
misdirection, though he had not the social distinction to make
him quite so refined a terror. I had every opportunity of
watching him until, two years later, he was fortunately asked to
leave. He talked bawd from morning till night, got drunk on one
or two occasions, masturbated constantly without concealment, had
several of the younger boys _inter femora_, though without
evincing any care or affection for them, and gave one the
impression of having been born for a brothel. His one redeeming
quality was an element of good nature: a characteristic one often
finds among such as are selfish and irresponsible.
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