Great was my chagrin to find in that apartment a pupil gone to bed indisposed,—greater when I recognised, amid the muslin nightcap borders, the "figure chiffonnée" of Mistress Ginevra Fanshawe; supine at this moment, it is true—but certain to wake and overwhelm me with chatter when the interruption would be least acceptable: indeed, as I watched her, a slight twinkling of the eyelids warned me that the present appearance of repose might be but a ruse, assumed to cover sly vigilance over "Timon's
This was always my cordial, to which, like other dram-drinkers, I had eager recourse when unsettled by chagrin.
Next day it all came out, sadly to my chagrin; and still I was not altogether sorry: I thought the burden of directing and warning would be more efficiently borne by him than me.
" I glanced at the great New York detective and saw that a look of intense chagrin had come upon his clear-cut features.
' When my mother says that, I always feel very chagrin.
Soraya joined me at San Jose State the following year and enrolled, to her father's chagrin, in the teaching track.
(To the chagrin of all left handers, until the invention of the fast drying ballpoint pen!
