When we arrive at a more advanced stage of civilization, the State will supply cages for these intolerable people; and notices will be posted at the corners of streets, "Beware of Number Twelve: a family in a state of mutual admiration is hung up there!" I gathered from Lucilla that the Finches were of the second order of large families, as mentioned above.

Hardly one of the members of this domestic group was on speaking terms with the other.

And some of them had been separated for years, without once troubling Her Majesty's Post Office to convey even the slightest expression of sentiment from one to the other.
The first wife of Reverend Finch was a Miss Batchford.

The members of her family (limited at the time of the marriage to her brother and her sister) strongly disapproved of her choice of a husband.

The rank of a Finch (I laugh at these contemptible distinctions!) was decided, in this case, to be not equal to the rank of a Batchford.