Quotation marks in my paper?

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Here's the sentence:
For the icing on the cake, one brother exclaims, “Here’s a pair of old boots,’ he said. ‘Thrown away, I suppose, by some tramp or other.’ ‘Some impostor who wished to come into the town barefoot, perhaps, and so excite our sympathies,’ said Mercy Chant,” (Hardy 351).     		    
At the part: one brother exclaims, “Here’s a pair of old boots,’ he said. How do I do the quotes because he's talking here? Is there 2 marks before Here's ("')?

Wawa · Accepted Answer

For the icing on the cake, one brother exclaims, "Here's a pair of old boots", he said, "thrown away, I suppose by some tramp or other." "Some impostor who wished to come into the town barefoot, perhaps, and so excite our sympathies," said Mercy Chant. (Hardy 351)
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"For the icing on the cake, one brother exclaims, 'Here's a pair of old boots', he said, 'thrown away, I suppose, by some tramp or other.' 'Some impostor who wished to come into the town barefoot, perhaps, and so excite our sympathies,' said Mercy Chant." (Hardy 351).

Twinkle Toes · Answer

i think i get what you mean...
ive always been told to put quotation marks to start you quote and another set at the end
then if your first sentence is what someone has said yes you do put another one in but im not sure if it would look right on a computer but that's what ive always been taught.

""Hello" said the old man"(page 63)

yh it doesn't look right and im not sure how or if you can get a single " instead of two of those things but i always do 'quote' or speech marks
yh i guess you could do ' those.

sorry i think i confused myself

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