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Pickwick's listening face, was only the next best thing to hearing him and seeing him, still in the person of Jack Hopkins, relate the memorable anecdote about the child swallowing the necklace pronounced in Jack Hopkins's abbreviated articulation of it, neck-luss a word repeated by him a round dozen times at the least within a few seconds in the reading version of that same anecdote.
How characteristically and comically the abbreviations were multiplied for the delivery of it, by the very voice and in the very person, as it were, of Jack Hopkins, who shall say! As, for example "Sister, industrious girl, seldom treated herself to bit of finery, cried eyes out, at loss of neck-luss; looked high and low for neck-luss.
How abbreviated passages like these look, as compared with the original could only be rendered comprehensible upon the instant, by giving in this place a facsimile of one of the pages relating to Jack Hopkins's immortal story about the neck-luss, exactly as it appears in the marked copy of the Reading of "Mr.
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