Sentence:  The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which <WSD>attends</WSD> the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it....Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival? 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To be present with; to accompany; to be united or consequent to.