Word: cad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...romances ravenously, set desperate stock in a gypsy's prophecy of a house among trees in sunlight, a great love to come. In middle age she got the house, in the mountains of West Wales. Soon after came the great love, Lew Gower, too sea-bottom low a cad even to recognize his own evil. Lew flattered her and slept with her until he got all her money. But when his wife died he married not Esther, as he had promised, but Lettice, a kind and comely young woman. From then on Pay Thy Pleasure grows more and more...