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Their acquaintance and comradeship had begun in the most accidental way. Two years before, Smith was taking part in an aeroplane race from Paris to London. On reaching the Channel, he found himself far ahead of all his competitors, except a Frenchman, who, to his chagrin, managed to keep a lead of almost a mile. Each carried a passenger.
Meanwhile, his pursuers, not daring to approach the stockade, drew off towards their comrades with gestures of disappointment and chagrin. I began to reflect upon the real danger of our situation corralled upon a naked prairie, ten miles from camp, with no prospect of escape.
"He left unexpectedly; just when I forget; but during the last day I was there." "Lee, why didn't you say that Mr. Grove had gone to Washington? It seems very peculiar." "I told you it had slipped my mind," he retorted, striving, in a level tone, to hide his chagrin and an increasing irritation at her persistence. "When did he come back?" "I don't know."
"You told me to wait for Lionel Verner," whispered Sibylla, when she and her father were alone, as she stood before him, trembling. In her mind's eye she saw Verner's Pride slipping from her; and it gave her chagrin, in spite of her love for Fred Massingbird. Dr. West leaned forward and whispered a few words in her ear. She started violently, she coloured crimson. "Papa!"
His chagrin was great or appeared to be so when, upon the evening of the day in which this narrative commences the captain of the coast-guard sent a messenger to summon him to headquarters.
Arthur had been to Wylder Hall repeatedly, but Barbara had not seen him! She must go herself, and pay some court to the young heiress! She was anxious also to learn whether any chagrin was concerned in her continuous absence from Mortgrange.
"Think of two men lifting one potato!" "I didn't say one potato, Uncle Randolph. I said some of those potatoes." "Eh?" "The men had a barrel full of 'em." "Thomas!" The uncle shook his finger threateningly. "At your old tricks, I see. I might have known it." And then he stalked off to hide his chagrin. "Tom, that was rather rough on Uncle Randolph," said Sam, after a laugh. "So it was, Sam.
And, to the surprise and chagrin of the Boy Scouts, who had expected, as boys always do, when they are pitted against girls, to win so easily that they could afford to be magnanimous, and to abstain from gloating, the judges were unanimous in deciding that she had done better than any of the six competitors in all five of the standard dives in which Hastings showed the way.
When the old butler had gone he was even more free, speaking of things that were past, not only without anger, but, as far as possible, without chagrin, treating his son as a person altogether free from any control of his. 'I dare say it is all for the best, he said. 'It is well at any rate to try to think so, sir, replied John, conscience-stricken as to his own faults.
It was only when the affair ended that the noise broke forth again, which it did in loud triumphant shouts from the conquering party, with expressions of chagrin on the side of the conquered. By interpreting these shouts Bill could tell that he had fallen to the black; and this was soon after placed beyond doubt by the latter coming up and taking possession of him.
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