But I endured it with a resigned spirit, compassionating their wilfulness and blindness.

I do not, I will not condemn the past; I did once, I own, but since I have known you, I have forgiven the mistaken wilfulness of a misguided girl.

"I must dissuade you," he said, trying to hide wilfulness under an unpleasant smile.

"Why could they not have been content to cling to the comforts of Old England, and to restrain their wilfulness of spirit?"