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"If this open weather holds s, when they , "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 theas she spoke, to exaht of that

This weather will keep many sportsood spirits were restored by it

"It is char 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 extreer--nay, perhaps itto prevent Mrs Jennings frohts 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 oay"

"And now," silently conjectured Elinor, "she rite to Combe by this day's post"

But if she DID, the letter ritten and sent aith a privacy which eluded all her watchfulness to ascertain the fact Whatever the truth of it h 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

Thecards at the houses of Mrs Jennings's acquaintance to infor in town; and Marianne was all the ti the variations of the sky and i an alteration in the air

"Don't you find it colder than it was in the , 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 see too, the sun will be out in a moment, and we shall have a clear afternoon"