to the profound joy of someand to the utter annoyance of othersthis spirit of cooperation concatenated itself with a most immodest kindness , the earnestness of which could sometimes prove tiring , perhaps even burdensome , for those cursed with a streak of impatience , who might , at times , view the excessive humility of others gestures as being symptomatic of some area of their characters which was evidently lacking , and which was now somehow being redressed and compensated for in a fashion needlessly demeaning .