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Book, page 371 / 462 Cecilia, nor, I am sure, will your companions." "Then, surely, not your best friend," said Leonora, kissing her. Everybody present was moved. They looked up to Leonora with respectful and affectionate admiration. "Oh, Leonora, how I love you! and how I wish to be like you!" exclaimed Cecilia--"to be as good, as generous!" "Rather wish, Cecilia," interrupted Mrs. Villars, "to be as just; to be as strictly honourable, and as invariably consistent. Remember, that many of our sex are capable of great efforts--of making what they call great sacrifices to virtue or to friendship; but few treat their friends with habitual gentleness, or uniformly conduct themselves with prudence and good sense." THE LITTLE MERCHANTS. CHAPTER I. Chi di gallina nasce, convien che rozole. As the old cock crows, so crows the young. Those who have visited Italy give us an agreeable picture of the cheerful industry of the children of all ages in the celebrated city of Naples. Their manner of living and their numerous employments are exactly described in the following "Extract from a Traveller's Journal." * * Varieties of Literature, vol. i. p. 299. "The children are busied in various ways. A great number of them bring fish for sale to town from Santa Lucia; others are very often seen about the arsenals, or wherever carpenters are at work, employed in gathering up the chips and pieces of wood; or by the sea-side, picking up sticks, and whatever else has drifted ashore, which, when their basket is full,
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