"They want you to come back, I suppose," said Uncle John, testily.

"You don't seem to think much of a cigar," said O'Shea, testily.

"His courtesy might have effaced the recollection, I think," said Fagan, testily.

“You might as well ask if I was lost,” Mr Powell rejoined so testily as to surprise me.

"Perhaps, my illustrious Capataz," the doctor said, testily.

"Then I don't understand you,—that's clear," exclaimed O'Reilly, testily.

"No, the 103d; the 105th was at Barbadoes," broke in the Major, testily.

"You should not have come here, O Hassim," said Lingard, testily.

“You might as well ask if I was lost,” Mr. Powell rejoined so testily as to surprise me.

"It's remarkable that you should be deaf as well as dumb," retorted the other, testily.