These are all the details I ever heard from her.

She so avoided particularizing, that I think Mr.
Carus Wilson's name never passed between us.
I do not doubt the general accuracy of my informants,--of those who have given, and solemnly repeated, the details that follow,--but it is only just to Miss Bronte to say that I have stated above pretty nearly all that I ever heard on the subject from her.
A clergyman, living near Kirby Lonsdale, the Reverend William Carus Wilson, was the prime mover in the establishment of this school.

He was an energetic man, sparing no labour for the accomplishment of his ends.
He saw that it was an extremely difficult task for clergymen with limited incomes to provide for the education of their children; and he devised a scheme, by which a certain sum was raised annually by subscription, to complete the amount required to furnish a solid and sufficient English education, for which the parent's payment of 14_l_.

a year would not have been sufficient.

Indeed, that made by the parents was considered to be exclusively appropriated to the expenses of lodging and boarding, and the education provided for by the subscriptions.