"Their very language makes me feel antipathy for them," was a remark I constantly heard him make.

His judgment of people was not a well-balanced one; he could either love or hate, and unfortunately the number of those included in the latter category was considerably the greater.
There is no doubt about it that there was a very hard strain in Franz Ferdinand's mentality, and those who only knew him slightly felt that this hardness of character was the most notable feature in him and his great unpopularity can doubtless be attributed to this cause.

The public never knew the splendid qualities of the Archduke, and misjudged him accordingly.
Apparently he was not always like that.

He suffered in his youth from severe lung trouble, and for long was given up by the doctors.

He often spoke to me of that time and all that he had gone through, and referred with intense bitterness to the people who were only waiting day by day to put him altogether on one side.