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Originally Posted by Jellby
Or if a quoted text spans several paragraphs, in this case each paragraph starts with an opening quote mark but only the last one ends with a closing quote mark.
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This is
extremely common, especially in 19th century novels.
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And worse, there are books that use single quotes for top-level quote marks (mainly British, I think).
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Yes - virtually all the Dickens books I've uploaded to MR use this convention.