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He disliked dons as a class; at Oxford and elsewhere they made him, of course wrongly, restive. He had not been through their mill, and they did not always care for or see his curious and original play of mind. Their committee-trained caution of phrase was alarmed by his emphasis and heavy-shotted superlatives, which merely amused his friends. There were, of course, those among them who liked him well. In some houses he had, apart from his musical gifts, a certain name for being
gpt
The latter epithet was only partially true, for he was simple-hearted and good-natured the moment that the occasion arose.
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His sympathy, writes Madame de Navarro (Miss Mary Anderson),
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All who had eyes saw this in Johnstone, but all had not eyes. He was interested, absorbed, whelmed in his subject, and thought instinctively more about ideas and purposes than about persons, so that he sometimes ignored persons and therefore dissatisfied them. He also said, what is true, that of the provinces, as compared with the capital,
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This, and any semblance of snobbery, he openly despised. He liked to have power and weight--and was right in liking it--in order to carry out certain musical reforms. But he dismissed at once anyone who, as he put it,