"Oh! I thought it would be so, for I know how to deal with such witches.

But not too fast, not too fast, my Godfrey.

I wonder what the old Egyptians put into the heads of their mummies to make them so heavy." "Bitumen," answered Godfrey, and proceeded in a cheerful voice to give an account of the Egyptian process of mummification to his tutor, which Isobel and he had acquired in the course of their miscellaneous reading at Monk's Acre.

Indeed, as he had said, whatever the reason, he was changed and prepared to talk cheerfully about anything.

A great burden was lifted from his soul.
From that day forward Godfrey became what a youth of his years and race should be, a high-spirited, athletic, and active young man.