These are Mrs.Wilson and her daughter.

The former was the widow of a substantial farmer, a narrow-minded, tattling old gossip, whose character is not worth describing.

She had two sons, Robert, a rough countrified farmer, and Richard, a retiring, studious young man, who was studying the classics with the vicar's assistance, preparing for college, with a view to enter the church.
Their sister Jane was a young lady of some talents, and more ambition.
She had, at her own desire, received a regular boarding-school education, superior to what any member of the family had obtained before.

She had taken the polish well, acquired considerable elegance of manners, quite lost her provincial accent, and could boast of more accomplishments than the vicar's daughters.

She was considered a beauty besides; but never for a moment could she number me amongst her admirers.