Another curious thing is that our trouble seems to make us more like each other.

Of course we are not more like, but we all somehow take the same tone, and seem to have given up our own particular ways and fancies.
"Now the men don't seem like that.

Mr.Hunter, for example, whom I used to think an even tempered and easygoing sort of man, has become fidgety and querulous.

The Major is even more genial and kind than usual.

The Doctor snaps and snarls at everyone and everything.