He had not kept his promise of treating me like his sisters; he continually made little chilling differences between us, which did not at all tend to the development of cordiality: in short, now that I was acknowledged his kinswoman, and lived under the same roof with him, I felt the distance between us to be far greater than when he had known me only as the village schoolmistress.
Il n'avait pas tenu sa promesse: il ne me traitait pas comme ses soeurs; il mettait toujours entre elles et moi une différence qui empêchait la cordialité. En un mot, maintenant que j'étais sa parente et que je vivais sous le même toit que lui, la distance entre nous me semblait bien plus grande que lorsque j'étais simplement la maîtresse d'école d'un village;