3. When a question and an answer are in the same paragraph, a dash is frequently inserted between the two; as, “Saw you my lord?”—“No, lady.”
4. When as, thus, as follows, &c., introduce an example or a quotation, a dash should be placed after the comma or colon, if what follows commences a new paragraph; as,—
“All we possess, and use not on the road,
Adds to the burden we must bear.”—Goethe.
Rule IV. Letters or Figures Omitted.—When letters or figures are omitted, a dash should be used to indicate the omission.
EXAMPLES.
“Why, to comfort me, must Alice W⸺n be a goblin?”—Lamb.
Mark xi. 1-10. Gen. v. 3-9.
REMARK.