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He thought of a dozen things possible services, even probable services but none of them seemed adequate, none of them seemed large enough, none of them seemed worth the money worth the fortune Goodson had wished he could leave in his will. And besides, he couldn't remember having done them, anyway.
Here was Vice-Admiral Goodson, whom the more I know the more I value for a serious man and staunch. Here was Whistler the flagmaker, which vexed me, but it mattered not.
Edward found it something of an effort to comply, for his mind kept wandering trying to remember what the service was that he had done Goodson. The couple lay awake the most of the night, Mary happy and busy, Edward busy, but not so happy. Mary was planning what she would do with the money. Edward was trying to recall that service.
Now, then now, then what kind of a service would it be that would make a man so inordinately grateful? Ah the saving of his soul! That must be it. Yes, he could remember, now, how he once set himself the task of converting Goodson, and laboured at it as much as he was going to say three months; but upon closer examination it shrunk to a month, then to a week, then to a day, then to nothing.
It is easy to imagine one's self in some lovely sylvan retreat which is indeed true! All the appointments of this room, and indeed of the whole house, every article of furniture and each touch of color, betoken the artistic sense for fitness and harmony. Miss Goodson has a keen and exquisite sense for harmony in colors as well as for color in the harmonies she brings from her instrument.
In the Grove Dictionary, her playing is described in the following manner: "It is marked by an amount of verve and animation that are most rare with the younger English pianists. She has a great command of tone gradation, admirable technical finish, genuine musical taste and considerable individuality of style." In 1903 Miss Goodson married Mr.
Upon sight of the English the poor people again fled incontinently to the woods, and Nuberry and his men destroyed their houses a second time. On 5th April 1656 Goodson, with ten of his best ships, set sail again and steered eastward along the coast of Hispaniola as far as Alta Vela, hoping to meet with some Spanish ships reported in that region.
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