The use of stars in the first part of No. 103 will convey no more definite information than the periods give the reader; but their use in the second part of the sentence, accompanied by a period, will at once show that they stand for the ellipsis of one or more sentences:
103-1. I would rather pray for them. * * * They do not tell me what they are attempting.
CHAPTER XI
QUOTATION-MARKS
Quotation-marks are either single or double. The former consist of one inverted comma and one apostrophe; the latter, of two inverted commas and two apostrophes.
The double marks are very generally used in this country for a single quotation; but some writers and some printing-offices follow the English style of using the single marks.
Quotation-marks are used by a writer to identify as the exact language of another writer a word or group of words which the first writer uses within his own language.
They are sometimes used by a writer to enclose a quotation from his own printed or spoken language. The fact that such quoted matter is his own language is practically always shown by the text.
If the quoted language contains a quotation, such quotation is identified by the quotation-marks (single or double) not used for the main quotation.