Word: chagrinned
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...horrified, fascinated, sneaks back to her at night, again & again, again. Vinca guesses his secret, confronts him with it. Terribly sorry but terribly proud too, Philippe confesses, hopes Vinca will not want to kill herself. Much to his surprise, she does just the opposite; to his bewildered chagrin, takes it in her uncanny feminine stride, teaches him a lesson about women that he will never forget, never understand...
When Lydersen is given a post office promotion over Berger's head, in deep chagrin Berger gets himself transferred to Oslo. After years of desperate loneliness he chums up with a man who turns out to be Rognaas, the only man ever to take his side. At the height of their intense friendship Rognaas confesses that he was one of the bandits; his story absolves Berger of any taint of cowardice. But Berger cannot tell on his friend, even to justify himself to the whole world. Instead, he hits on a plan to justify himself to Lydersen, his chief...
...Voted (54-to-17) to lay aside the election of a President pro tempore after 25 fruitless ballots, thus leaving New Hampshire's Moses in that office, much to the chagrin of Republican Insurgents whom he called "Sons of the Wild Jackass...
...lead-off letter of your Nov. 23 issue caused me deep chagrin when I learned that for four years an Oregonian miss has been rolling on the floor each week with MY gift of TIME...
Local Boy Makes Good (First National) is the familiar anecdote* about a bespectacled and dazed collegian who, to his own surprise and the chagrin of his cronies, succeeds in an amorous enterprise...