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Poppins and the philosopher say that the former plan will make the world the richer, but they do not say that it will sell the greater number of hats. Am I to look after the world? Am I not to look to myself? Is not the world a collection of individuals, all of whom are doing so?
They made an Indian file through the Christmas shopping crowds, and stopped frequently and noisily before the street-booths' glamour of tinsel and teddy-bears. They shrieked all with one rotund mad laughter as Tom Poppins capered over and bought for seven cents a pink bisque doll, which he pinned to the lapel of his plaid overcoat.
"But it sells them, Poppins." "Everybody wears a shirt, and no one wears more than one at a time. I don't see that it does any good." "It is a magnificent trade in itself. Would that I had a monopoly of all the walls in London! The very arches of the bridges must be worth ten thousand a-year.
Poppins," said Mr. Brown. "Secrets in trade should be secrets. And though Mr. Johnson has done us a deal of mischief, we don't want to expose him." "But you've been exposing him ever so long," pleaded Poppins. "Now Poppins," said that gentleman's wife, "don't you be troubling Mr. Brown. He's got other things to think of than answering your questions.
"Poppins, give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core; ay, in my heart of hearts; as I do thee." And then, falling on Poppins' neck, George Robinson embraced him. "You'll be better after that," said Poppins. "Come, let's have a little chat over a drop of something hot, and then we'll go to bed. I'll stand Sammy." "Something hot!" said Robinson.
"It's a shame for you, George Robinson," said the lady, as he entered, "so it is. Look at that, for a father of a family, coming home at three o'clock in the morning, and not able to make his way upstairs till I went down and fetched him!" "I told her that we were obliged to sit out the debate," said Poppins, winking eagerly at his friend. "Debate, indeed! A parcel of geese as you call yourself!
"Well, Jones was there. Jones was with Brisket, and Jones told him that if he'd come forward now he should have a hundred down, and a promise from the firm for the rest of it." "Then Jones is a scoundrel." "I don't know about that," said Mrs. Poppins. "Maryanne is his wife's sister, and he's bound to do the best he can by her.
She spoke nothing further to him then, but left the room and went away to her friend Mrs. Poppins. Robinson belonged to a political debating club, which met on every Saturday evening at the "Goose and Gridiron" in one of the lanes behind the church in Fleet Street.
Brown, was aware that it would be necessary for him to come to some understanding. In his difficulty he had dropped some hints to his friend Poppins, not exactly explaining the source of his embarrassment, but saying enough to make that gentleman understand the way in which the firm was going on. "I suppose you're in earnest about that girl," said Poppins.
"There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip," said Poppins, when he was told. "Do you take care that she and Polly ain't off to Aldersgate Street together." "Poppins, I wouldn't be cursed with your ideas of human nature, not for a free use of all the stations on the North Western. Go to Aldersgate Street now that she is my affianced bride!" "That's gammon," said Poppins.
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