I am so glad poor father did get that house.

He bought a big house there years ago, in order that there should always be a Casa Gould in the principal town of what used to be called the Occidental Province.

I lived there once, as a small boy, with my dear mother, for a whole year, while poor father was away in the United States on business.

You shall be the new mistress of the Casa Gould." And later, in the inhabited corner of the Palazzo above the vineyards, the marble hills, the pines and olives of Lucca, he also said-- "The name of Gould has been always highly respected in Sulaco.

My uncle Harry was chief of the State for some time, and has left a great name amongst the first families.