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The same moonlight which illumined the meeting of Pauline Corsi and the strangers in the streets of New Orleans, shone on the smooth bosom of the Mississippi, and on the white walls of the villa residence of Augustus Horton.
The house and plantation of Hortonville were some miles from the wood in which the duel between Augustus and Gilbert had taken place.