The representatives of that family were Nicholas Rawdon and his wife Lydia.
Nicholas Rawdon was a large, stout man, very arrogant, very complete, very alert for this world, and not caring much about the other.

He was not pleased at Judge Rawdon's visit, but thought it best to be cousinly until his cousin interfered with his plans--"rights" he called them--"and then!" and his "THEN" implied a great deal, for Nicholas Rawdon was a man incapable of conceiving the idea of loving an enemy.
His wife was a pleasant, garrulous woman, who interested Ethel very much.

Her family was her chief topic of conversation.

She had two daughters, one of whom had married a baronet, "a man with money and easy to manage"; and the other, "a rich cotton lord in Manchester." "They haven't done badly," she said confidentially, "and it's a great thing to get girls off your hands early.

Adelaide and Martha were well educated and suitable, but," she added with a glow of pride, "you should see my John Thomas.