"Vocative" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... said Zuleika, "thinks me an unredeemed brute; just because I don't love him. YOU, dear Mr. MacQuern—does one call you 'Mr.'? 'The' would sound so odd in the vocative. And I can't very well call you 'MacQuern'—YOU don't think me unkind, do you? I simply can't bear to think of all these young lives cut short without my having done a thing to brighten them. What can I do?—what can I ...
— Zuleika Dobson - or, An Oxford Love Story • Max Beerbohm |
