Sentence:  In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass....Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were <WSD>received</WSD> with distance and suspicion. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To act as a host for guests; to give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, etc.