He cursed himself for having assumed the weather would be su... - Helen Simonson, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

"He cursed himself for having assumed the weather would be sunny. Perhaps it was the result of evolution, he thought--some adaptive gene that allowed the English to go on making blithe outdoor plans in the face of almost certain rain."

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