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> 私はわざとＫの室を回避するようにして、こんな風に自分を往来の真中に見出したのです。

I found a few explanations of ようにして but it seems there's multiple meanings
and/or the translation is context-dependent, so I'm not sure exactly how to
translate it here. Here's some of my guesses:

"Making it so that I would avoid K's room" - this seems unlikely

"As if I was intentionally avoiding K's room" - seems better

"Making it a point to avoid K's room" - plausible

"Sort of avoiding K's room" - ???
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Meaning of ようにして in this sentence
In general, 「〜ようにする 」 means that the subject is doing something such that 〜
will happen.

So in this case, the subject 私 is doing something (the something is implied in
this case) so that he will be avoiding K's room. In other words, 私 is taking
measures to avoid K's room.

The て形 has a lot of uses, all of which show that the two clauses are linked
somehow with the first either coinciding with our preceding the second. I
personally think that just remembering that is enough to make sense of it in
most cases. ~~I do believe however that one of the uses of the て形 when joining
clauses in to show that the second was unexpected given the first.~~ _Edit: I
think this is just a sequential use_.

> 私はわざとＫの室を回避するようにして、こんな風に自分を往来の真中に見出したのです

~~I was making every effort to avoid K's room but in the process I ended up
running into him in the street/hall~~.

_This translation was kindly pointed out to me in the comments as incorrect. I
misunderstood the meaning of 自分を見出す. A more accurate translation is below._

I was making every effort to avoid K's room and in the process, I found myself
in the middle of the street.

I used "every" to strengthen the effort that I think わざと adds. Including "on
purpose" is redundant in the English I think.

こんな風に is "in the process" though "in this manner" might be more accurate.

If anyone believes I am incorrect anywhere, I welcome criticism.
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> 「私はわざとＫの室{へや}を回避{かいひ}するようにして、こんな風{ふう}に自分{じぶん}を往来{おうらい}の真中{まなか}に見出{みいだ}したのです。」

I think that the most natural interpretation of the first half would be:

"as if to intentionally avoid K's room"

because I feel it fairly unnatural, in this context, to interpret the
「ように（する）」 to denote a clear (or final) goal/purpose. Rather, it appears to be
used to describe (not so important) a process that leads to the end-result of
the speaker finding himself in the middle of the street.

(As a Japanese-speaker, I am far more interested in the **_second_** half of
this sentence because that is not something a monolingual Japanese-speaker
would say in a natural setting. It sounds as if it were translated from a
European language. I would say that this author was proficient in one.)
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