Possible Clues:

• Arrogant if winning sympathy
• Bolshie rising at top of colliery yard
• Haughty
• Increase compassion with self-importance
• Showing cheek, where dog's lost head and bitten it
• At Oxford, perhaps, sadness is difficult to hold in check
• In favour of compassion for the high and mighty
• Overweening
• Happy? Shame — that's arrogant
• Snobbish at Oxford or Cambridge? Cause for regret