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And German women began to be piqued at the calm indifference of smart Belgian officers to the favours they might have had. Openly chagrined were the local Hun beauties at such a disregard of their full-blown charms. "I fear for our women and children in Tabora," said the German doctor to me in Morogoro.
These were most exciting and desirable, so off my horse I got and began to sneak up on them through the low tufts of grass. They fed quite calmly. I congratulated myself, and slipped nearer. Without even looking in my direction, they trotted away. Somewhat chagrined, I returned to my companions, and we rode on.
As the space between them and the shore widened, the surf became stronger and higher, until by the time they reached the reef the canoe was dancing like a shell on the water. "Afraid?" asked Bobby, teasingly, flashing a smile over her shoulder. "I don't think," said Percival, and, immediately was chagrined at having indulged in such a vulgar expression. "I love it!" cried Bobby.
The soft voice the small hand thrust under the tapojo yes, all were Narcisso's! A web of mystery was torn to shreds in a single moment. The truth did not yield gratification. No but the contrary. I was chagrined at the indifference exhibited in another quarter. "She must know that I am here, since her brother is master of the fact here, bleeding and bound. Yet where is her sympathy? She sleeps!
There was not the slightest evidence of this, but everybody chose to believe it. Sidney Wilton was chagrined with life, and had become a martyr to the gout, which that chagrin had aggravated; but he was a great gentleman, and too chivalric to refuse a royal command when the Sovereign was in distress.
Some of the platoon officers appeared to be exceedingly chagrined when giving the word, 'Ground arms! and I am a witness that they performed this duty in a very unofficerlike manner and that many of the soldiers manifested a sullen temper, throwing their arms on the pile with violence, as if determined to render them useless.
The queen, with the dauphin and dauphiness, attended by their several suites, accompanied him on this expedition. Madame de Montespan was excessively chagrined in finding her name omitted in the list of those who were to make up the party. But the name of Madame de Maintenon headed the list of the attendants of the princess.
This has heretofore been so far neglected, as regards the marine, that not long before I arrived the commander of a French ship of war was much chagrined, on firing a salute as he passed the battery at New York, to find that his courtesy was not returned in the customary way.
All that was said was perfectly heard by those in the next room. At length I left her closet, much chagrined; and returning to my own apartments, I found the King my husband there, who said to me: "Well, was it not as I told you?"
"You needn't answer, Mr. Sylvester; your face is answer enough. He is." She turned away, and, walking slowly to the chair from which she had arisen, sank into it. "He is," she repeated. "I knew it. I wonder that I didn't know it from the very first. How could I have been so blind!" The lawyer, nervous, chagrined, and greatly troubled, remained standing by the door.
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