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.
Del resto, egli mi contava così poco da sorella, come mi aveva promesso, che quel contegno impedivami di esser affettuosa con lui.