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CHAPTER XXVII . “ If this open weather holds much longer , ” said Mrs . Jennings , when they met at breakfast the following morning , “ Sir John will not like leaving Barton next week ; ’ tis a sad thing for sportsmen to lose a day’s pleasure . Poor souls ! I always pity them when they do ; they seem to take it so much to heart . ” “ That is true , ” cried Marianne , in a cheerful voice , and walking to the window as she spoke , to examine the day . “ I had not thought of that . This weather will keep many sportsmen in the country . ” It was a lucky recollection , all her good spirits were restored by it . “ It is charming weather for them indeed , ” she continued , as she sat down to the breakfast table with a happy countenance . “ How much they must enjoy it ! But ” ( with a little return of anxiety ) “ it cannot be expected to last long . At this time of the year , and after such a series of rain , we shall certainly have very little more of it . Frosts will soon set in , and in all probability with severity . In another day or two perhaps ; this extreme mildness can hardly last longer — nay , perhaps it may freeze tonight ! ” “ At any rate , ” said Elinor , wishing to prevent Mrs . Jennings from seeing her sister’s thoughts as clearly as she did , “ I dare say we shall have Sir John and Lady Middleton in town by the end of next week . ” “ Ay , my dear , I’ll warrant you we do . Mary always has her own way . ” “ And now , ” silently conjectured Elinor , “ she will write to Combe by this day’s post . ” But if she did , the letter was written and sent away with a privacy which eluded all her watchfulness to ascertain the fact . Whatever the truth of it might be , and far as Elinor was from feeling thorough contentment about it , yet while she saw Marianne in spirits , she could not be very uncomfortable herself . And Marianne was in spirits ; happy in the mildness of the weather , and still happier in her expectation of a frost . The morning was chiefly spent in leaving cards at the houses of Mrs . Jennings’s acquaintance to inform them of her being in town ; and Marianne was all the time busy in observing the direction of the wind , watching the variations of the sky and imagining an alteration in the air . “ Don’t you find it colder than it was in the morning , Elinor ? There seems to me a very decided difference . I can hardly keep my hands warm even in my muff . It was not so yesterday , I think . The clouds seem parting too , the sun will be out in a moment , and we shall have a clear afternoon . ” Elinor was alternately diverted and pained ; but Marianne persevered , and saw every night in the brightness of the fire , and every morning in the appearance of the atmosphere , the certain symptoms of approaching frost .
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