Everything annoyed him that day--the parade was insufferably hot and wearisome. Good heavens! was a man of intellect to waste his life, day after day, inspecting cross-belts and putting fools through their manoeuvres? The senseless chatter of the young men at mess was more than ever jarring. 
Everything annoyed him that day - the parade was insufferably hot and wearisome, and the senseless chatter of the young men was more than ever jarring. 