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Just an obsolete style. A similar one that you will encounter in some old books is when a long passage is quoted, (usually in text books or the like) the double quotes are at the beginning end of every line of text in the quotation.
Like this:
"A similar one that you will encounter"
"in some old books is when a long"
"passage is quoted (usually in text"
"books and the like) the double quotes"
"are at the beginning and end of every"
"line of text in the quotation."
Weird to modern eyes, but not uncommon then.
Not all punctuation and paragraphing was always dictated by authors, by the way. Often the author's work manuscript was adjusted to fit the publisher's house style.
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