Gammon--the letter he was
never to read.
Mr. Gammon had received an invitation to the ceremony, but through
pressure of business was unable to accept it. He felt, too, that
there would have been awkwardness in thus meeting with Polly for the
first time since their rupture on the Embankment.
Polly, of course, concluded that he kept away solely because he did
not wish to see her. In the mood induced by this reflection, and by
the turbid emotions natural to such a day, she penned her farewell
to the insulting and perfidious man. Mr. Gammon was informed that
never and nowhere would Miss Sparkes demean herself by exchanging
another word with him; that he was a low and vulgar and ignorant
person, without manners enough for a road-scraper; moreover, that
she had long since been the object of _sincere_ attentions from
someone so vastly his superior that they were not to be named in the
same month. This overflow of feeling was some relief, but Polly
could not rest until she had also written to Mrs. Clover. She made
known to her aunt that Mr.
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