Word: camila
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...back in 1820, Camila was the daughter of Andalusian gypsies who had to leave Spain because Daddy had knifed a fellow-gypsy, a thing not done. In England her father sold Camila to a sottish squire who lived in Devonshire because he had been caught card-sharping in London. The squire's wife was an embittered dipsomaniac, his children unmannerly little devils; the house was not very orderly. Nevertheless Camila liked it. As she grew up she fell in love with one of her foster- brothers, Evelyn, who was beautiful. Unfortunately he turned out to be a provincial esthete...