good spirit

“He’d insisted on washing the dishes, which caused a huge row with Aunt Niecey, but her aunt had finally relented by teasing him in good spirit and adding Azrael’s pleasant protest to the other qualities of his she admired.”

Simon & Schuster: Surrender the Dark

“Then the good spirit brought to my mind the dangers and deaths from which I had been delivered, through the mercy of an indulgent God, and how I had called on him in trouble and he delivered me, and had answered me in the secret place of thunder; and it was pressed on my mind, that it was too dangerous to make another fool's start: then I semed to be in the wilderness, not knowing what to do:”

A Narrative of Some Remarkable Incidents in the Life of Solomon Bayley, Formerly a Slave in the State of Delaware, North America; Written by Himself, and Published for His Benefit; to Which Are Prefixed, a Few Remarks by Robert Hurnard