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Old 11-03-2015, 10:11 PM   #31
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Originally Posted by HarryT View Post
Are you suggesting that these are quotation marks used for emphasis, rather than to indicate direct speech?
That is a possibliity but I do not know. It may be that she was following some 1846 usage that died out.

I think that AnotherCat's post above may very very well be as close to being correct as we are likely to get.
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