The middle child of a large family, Rhodes was undoubtedly his mother's favourite and with her encouragement, he began to display wilful tendencies from a young age.
On September 15th John Cavendish appeared in the dock at the Old Bailey, charged with " The Wilful Murder of Emily Agnes Inglethorp, " and pleaded " Not Guilty" .
" Oh, I am tired of sitting, and I don't want a life-sized portrait of myself, " answered the lad, swinging round on the music-stool in a wilful, petulant manner.
He played with the idea and grew wilful; tossed it into the air and transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy and winged it with paradox.
Another involved catching a fairly fine-grained but critical distinction: a Spanish word (dolo) that is properly translated as " wilful misconduct" , but which was translated only as " malice" by software.
Proud and wilful as of old, she had brought those qualities into such subjection to her beauty that it was impossible and out of nature—or I thought so—to separate them from her beauty.
When you stated, in answer to my sermon, that I knew the identity of the anonymous writer, you made a mistake, —I do not accuse you of wilful falsehood, —and stated what was untrue.