Mary Quotes

“The twins’ father, Mr. Bobbsey, is a lumberyard owner in Lakeport; their mother, Mary, is a stay-at-home mom, as was common in those times.”

“Mary wanted to learn to read and asked her stonemason father for a book. In reply, he sent her into a cavern deep under the hills where the stone was quarried.”

“She could see the marks left by breaking waves in the rock above her head and, on the wall, the figure of a bull, a stonemason’s mark, and the outline of a hand that exactly matched her own. ”

“When she got back home, her father did give her a book - but it was a different one from what she had expected.”

“School in the Victorian era in which she lives, time of the growth of railways, costs more money than her family can afford.”