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Carrington went next to visit the costly marble at her husband’s grave, she was chagrined to see by its side a still more splendid one. But there was no help for it, so she had to endure it in silence, consoling herself with thinking how becomingly she would dress and how many conquests she would make, when the term of her mourning should have expired!
Pius VII. was much chagrined, but, like the good man that he was, he did not show it, nor did he resent the Emperor's second interference when it came to the crowning of Josephine.
The British were greatly chagrined at this second defeat, the first engagement after the Concord-Lexington fight, but at an exchange of prisoners, conducted, on the one hand, under Putnam and Warren, and on the other under Majors Small and Moncrief, the sixth of June, no ill feeling was shown.
The young gunner alone was implacable. He was the first of the returning force to reach Fort Prince George, and he carried with him all the powder that had been sent under mistake to the Blue Lick Station, together with the tear-shotted cartridges, whose problematic interior damage he explained to the amazed, chagrined, and nonplussed commandant.
Some years after, he was chagrined by I know not what unlucky affair, but it cost him his life. This was really unfortunate, for he was a good little man, whom at a first acquaintance one laughed at, but afterwards loved.
"Ellinor!" said the judge, after a moment's pause, "we are friends, I hope?" "Yes; friends," said she, quietly and sadly. He felt a little chagrined at her answer. Why, he could hardly tell. To cover any sign of his feeling he went on talking. "Where are you living now?" "At East Chester." "But you come sometimes to town, don't you?
This is the natural result of soaring above a reasonable level.. Your manifest destiny is finding its proper depths now! John was terribly chagrined; he reckoned Young America was a shade too fast. Flying, he said, was at best a mighty poor business; once again on firm footing he would for ever look upon manifest destiny as the most aerial thing of the fast nineteenth century.
He then told me that Regnard, as usual, had timed his visit to Brabant, so the brothers could be there together, and half laughing and half chagrined, told me that Regnard, in his white Austrian uniform, was very captivating to the eye. And they both desired Francezka, who laughed at all suitors to her hand.
But let's go without making any noise, and then the youngsters in the cabin will wonder just simply wonder whether we've left or are still around. The result will be that they won't dare to show their noses outdoors." So General Fred marched his forces away by stealth. Had he been able to look into the cabin, though, before departing, he would have felt chagrined. For Messrs.
"That will never do-we must have another song." "Indeed I can't sing to-night, and must be excused," said the lady warmly, and so she was excused. But soon another was chosen to be victimized at the piano, and "will-ye-nill-ye," sing she must. Simultaneous with the sound of the instrument rose the hum of voices, which grew louder and louder, until the performer stopped, discouraged and chagrined.
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