GALE MIDDLETON. CHAPTER I. Mais, au moins, dites moi, madame, par quelle sort MOLIERE. On the day that her Ladyship formed this resolution, she received the following letter from her step-son at Brookshaw Lodge: "MY DEAR MADAM, "If our joys, in the state of darkness to which we are all doomed, be but too often and too rapidly converted into sorrows, it cannot be denied that our seeming vexations will some |