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After Augustus Horton had read the paragraph in the New Orleans paper -- a paragraph whose every line was calculated to wound the sensitive nature of the Octoroon -- he looked toward Cora to see what effect the insult had had upon her and Gilbert Margrave.
They were seated side by side, and appeared engrossed in conversation, apparently unconscious of all that was passing around them. The planter threw down the newspaper with a smothered ejaculation of rage.