The Man Who Was Good is a novel by Leonard Merrick. Merrick was an English novelist who was widely admired and respected by his colleagues. Excerpt: "Among her scanty possessions, the only article that she could suggest converting into money was a silver watch that she wore attached to a guard. It had belonged to her as a girl; she had worn it as a nurse; it had travelled with her on tour during her life with Carew. What a pawnbroker would lend her on it she did not know, but she supposed a sovereign."