"Elide" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the natural corruptness of her speech overcoming her implacable republicanism, she still said instinctively "the de La Tremoilles," or, rather (by an abbreviation sanctified by the usage of music-hall singers and the writers of the 'captions' beneath caricatures, who elide the 'de'), "the d'La Tremoilles," but she corrected herself at once to "Madame La Tremoille.—The Duchess, as Swann calls her," she added ironically, with a smile which proved that she was merely quoting, and ...
— Swann's Way - (vol. 1 of Remembrance of Things Past) • Marcel Proust |
