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Chapter 3 SEEING, BUT UNDERSTANDING NOT.
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The service being ended, Bergan naturally turned to his kinsfolk for an ampler and friendlier greeting than had been possible at their hurried meeting in the crowded vestibule. Especially—with a grateful remembrance of her yesterday's cordiality—did he look to his aunt for a word of familiar kindness, that should make him feel less alone, less of a stranger, amid the friendly chorus of salutations and leave-takings coming to his ears from the departing congregation. But, to his surprise and pain, the same indefinable chill which had made him so vaguely2 uncomfortable with her husband and daughter, had now taken possession of her also, and woven a thin film of ice over the manner that yesterday was so kind.
The change was so unaccountable that he could not believe in it. He told himself that the real thing at fault was his own sickly imagination, that he was morbidly3 sensitive, as well as foolishly exacting4. He convinced his understanding, but could not silence his heart. That Cassandra of the depths continually smote5 his unwilling6 ear with her lugubrious7 voice, calling upon him to observe how strangely Mrs. Bergan had been transformed overnight, from the interested, cordial, even affectionate aunt, into the polite and practised woman of the world, doing merely what courtesy required for the entertainment of the guest that circumstances had flung upon her hands.
In this state of affairs, Bergan would gladly have exchanged the dinner at Oakstead for a quiet afternoon in his room and a sober talk with his thoughts. But the invitation being already accepted, he must needs abide8 by the event. Accordingly, he took the vacant seat in his uncle's carriage, and was soon set down at the cottage steps.
Before dinner, the two gentlemen were left to a quiet chat by themselves on the cool, shady piazza9
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decrepitude
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