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Updated: June 19, 2025
Has anything been done for the world by the Quixotic aspirations of general philanthropy, at all equal to that which individual enterprise has achieved? Poppins and the philosopher would spend their energies on a good hat. But why? Not that they love the head that is to wear it. The sale would still be their object.
"If he goes away now I shall think him as hard as Adam," said Mrs. Poppins. "There's three to one again him," said Mr. Poppins to himself. "What chance can he have?" Mr. Poppins may probably have gone through some such phase of life himself. "Let him go," said Maryanne again. "I wish he would. And then let him never show himself here again."
Could it be that a man had a double duty, each separate from the other; a duty domestic and private, requiring his devotion and loyalty to his wife, his children, his partners, and himself; and another duty, widely extended in all its bearings and due to the world in which he lived? Could Poppins have seen this, while he was blind?
Here's Tuesday already, and next Tuesday is to be the day." "Then it won't be next Tuesday; nor yet any Tuesday this month. Brisket's after her again." "I don't believe it, Polly." "Then disbelieve it. I was with him yesterday, and I'll tell you who was there before me; only don't you go to Robinson and say I said so." "If I can't make sport, I shan't spoil none," said Poppins.
Suddenly: "Say, Morty, I know an awful nice guy down here in a cigar-store. Let's go down and see him." "All right." Tom Poppins was very cordial to them. He dragged brown canvas stools out of the tobacco-scented room where cigars were made, and the three of them squatted in the back of the store, while Tom gossiped of the Juarez races, Taft, cigar-wrappers, and Jews.
I began straightforward, and I mean to end straightforward." "You mean to say you're not going to have her," said Mrs. Poppins. "Polly, don't make a fool of yourself," said Maryanne. "Do you think I want the man. Let him go." And then he did go, and Miss Brown was left without a suitor.
Nelly and Miss Proudfoot and Tom Poppins began discussing shoe-stores, all at once and very rapidly, while hot and uncomfortable Mr. Wrenn tried to think of something to say.... Good Lord, suppose Istra "queered" him at Mrs. Arty's!... Then he was angry at himself and all of them for not appreciating her. How exquisite she looked, with her tired white face!
A man may sweat hard digging holes and filling them up again. But what I say is, he does not do any good. You've been making out all these long stories about things that never existed, but what's the world the better for it; that's what I want to know. When a man makes a pair of shoes ." And so he went on. Coming from such a man as Poppins, this was hard to be borne.
This ain't your room; he's rented it he's paid the rent it's his room. Get out!" Kindly Tom Poppins worked in a cigar-store and was accustomed to talk back to drunken men six feet tall. His voice was tremendous, and he was fatly immovable; he didn't a bit mind the fact that Mrs. Zapp was still "glaring speechless." But behold an ally to the forlorn lady.
All this was over now, and he felt that he was pulled down with rough hands from the high place which he had occupied. "It's all very well," Poppins would say to him, "but the fact is, you're a-doing of nothing." "If fourteen hours a day " began Robinson. But Poppins instantly stopped him. "Fourteen hours' work a day is nothing, if you don't do anything.
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