He cursed himself for having assumed the weather would be sunny. Perhaps it was the result of evolution, he thought--som — 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--som — 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--som — 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--som — 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--som — 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--som — 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--som — 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--som — 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--som — 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--som — 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--som — 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--som — 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--som — 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--som — 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--som — 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--som — 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--som — 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--som — 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--som — 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--som — 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--som — 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--som — 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--som — 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--som — 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--som — 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--som — 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--som — 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--som — 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--som — 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--som — Helen Simonson, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
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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.

— Helen Simonson, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
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