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Piedro received nearly half as much again for his fish as he ought to have done. On his road homewards from Naples to the little village of Resina, where his father lived, he overtook Francisco, who was leading his father's ass.
He was embarrassed; for he pitied Piedro, and he scarcely knew how to point out to him that something more is necessary in a partner in trade besides activity, and that is honesty. "Can't you?" repeated Piedro, thinking that he hesitated from merely mercenary motives. "You shall have what share of the profits you please."
Facts are masculine, and words are feminine." * * I fatti sono maschii, le parole femmine. These goods friends seemed to make Francisco happier than Piedro could be made by his stolen diamonds. One morning, Francisco was sent to finish a sketch of the front of an ancient temple, amongst the ruins of Herculaneum.
"The measure should be an inch cube, I know," said Carlo; "that's what all the little merchants have agreed to, you know." "True," said Piedro, "so it is." "And so it is, I must allow," said Carlo, measuring the outside of it with the carpenter's rule which he held in his hand.
One day, when he was returning from the market in a very bad humour, in consequence of these reproaches, and of his not having found customers for his goods, he espied his SMART son Piedro at a little merchant's fruit-board devouring a fine gourd with prodigious greediness.
She was uncertain where she had dropped it; the shop, the carriage, the street, were searched for it in vain. Piedro saw it fall as the lady was lifted out of the carriage, seized upon it, and carried it off. Ignorant as he was of the full value of what he had stolen, he knew not how to satisfy himself as to this point, without trusting someone with the secret.
Piedro could never more show his face in this market, and all hopes of friendship all hopes of partnership with Francisco were for ever at an end.
We turn with pleasure from Piedro the Cunning to Francisco the Honest. Francisco continued the happy and useful course of his life. By his unremitting perseverance, he improved himself rapidly under the instructions of his master and friend, Signor Camillo; his friend, we say, for the fair and open character of Francisco won, or rather earned, the friendship of this benevolent artist.
In this expedition, Piedro de Cintra was accompanied by a young Portuguese who had formerly been clerk to Cada Mosto in his two voyages; and who, on the return of the expedition to Lagos, came to the house of his former employer, who then continued to reside at Lagos, and gave him an account of the discoveries which had been made in this new voyage, and the names of all the places which had been touched at by Piedro de Cintra, beginning from the Rio Grande, the extreme point of the former voyage .
Piedro being very certain that nobody saw him when he emptied Rosetta's basket, and imagining that he was suspected only upon the bare assertion of a child like Rosetta, who might be baffled and frightened out of her story, boldly denied the charge, and defied any one to prove him guilty.
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