Chapter 27

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​‌‌​‌​‌​‌​‌​​​‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​‌​​​‌​​​​​​​‌‌​‌​‌‌​​​‌⁠“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 e