Possible Clues:

• Scorn
• Speaking slightingly of mad gent and praise eccentrically
• Belittling behaviour
• Scorn; belittlement
• Scornful criticism
• Belittling words
• Condemnation, scorn
• Scorn diamonds and a jewel kept by one's mother?
• Girl's a treasure, stopping old man's scorn?
• Slight - dig at spearmen (anag)