Scud. Everybody---that is, I heard so. George. You begged me to call this morning. Scud. I could not do it. stan' round thar! George. M'Closky. Scud. E. Paul. M'Closky. *EnterPaul,wrestling with*Wahnotee,R.3. Ratts. M'Closky. That's about right. I deserve to be a nigger this day---I feel like one, inside. What's come ob de child? In comparison, a quadroon would have one quarter African ancestry and a mulatto for the most part has historically implied half African ancestry. I will; for it is agin my natur' to b'lieve him guilty; and if he be, this ain't the place, nor you the authority to try him. Paul. With your New England hypocrisy, you would persuade yourself it was this family alone you cared for; it ain't---you know it ain't---'tis the "Octoroon;" and you love her as I do; and you hate me because I'm your rival---that's where the tears come from, Salem Scudder, if you ever shed any---that's where the shoe pinches. Fifteen thousand bid for the Octoroon. why, clar out! Where am I to get it? Go it, if you're a mind to. Now, Jacob M'Closky, you despise me because you think I'm a fool; I despise you because I know you to be a knave. Stop, here's dem dishes---plates---dat's what he call 'em, all fix: I see Mas'r Scudder do it often---tink I can take likeness---stay dere, Wahnotee. Mrs. P.Terrebonne for sale, and you, sir, will doubtless become its purchaser. Lafouche. [A pause.] It's no use you putting on airs; I ain't gwine to sit up wid you all night and you drunk. Be the first to contribute! Ten miles we've had to walk, because some blamed varmin onhitched our dug-out. [Inside room.] Zoe. Yes, Mas'r George, dey was born here; and old Pete is fonder on 'em dan he is of his fiddle on a Sunday. No, the love I speak of is not such as you suppose,---it is a passion that has grown up here since I arrived; but it is a hopeless, mad, wild feeling, that must perish. where am I? Dora. M'Closky. M'Closky. Dora. [ExitPeteand all theNegroes,slowly,R.U.E. *Enter*Zoe[supposed to have overheard the last scene], L.U.E. Zoe. [Draws knife.] good, good nurse: you will, you will. Is this a dream---for my brain reels with the blow? M'Closky. Only 10 percent engaged in combat; the American elephant, pursuing the Vietnamese grasshopper, was extraordinarily heavy with logistical support. Sign that receipt, captain, and save me going up to the clerk. Aunt, when he died, two years ago, I read over those letters of his, and if I didn't cry like a baby---. Zoe, bring here the judge's old desk; it is in the library. European, I suppose. there's that noise again! [Aside to Sunnyside.] All there is there would kill one, wouldn't it? I wish to speak to you. [Calling at door.] A julep, gal, that's my breakfast, and a bit of cheese. Ugh! what are you doing there, you young varmint! [Seated,R. C.] Fan me, Minnie.---[Aside.] Be the first to contribute! Be the first to contribute! Point. Listen to me. Then I will go to a parlor house and have them top up a bathtub with French champagne and I will strip and dive into it with a bare-assed blonde and a redhead and an octoroon and the four of us will get completely presoginated and laugh and let long bubbly farts at hell and baptize each other in the name of the Trick, the Prick, and the Piper-Heidsick. She refuses, but Zoe steals the bottle from her anyway and runs off. Lafouche. Consarn those Liverpool English fellers, why couldn't they send something by the last mail? Sunny. Sunny. Let me hide them till I teach my heart. Dora, I once made you weep; those were the only tears I caused any body. ZOE played by an octoroon actress, a white actress, a quadroon actress, a biracial actress, a multi-racial actress, or an actress of color who can pass as an octoroon. Mrs. P.And you hesitated from motives of delicacy? Why should I refer the blame to her? Scud. What! He has a strange way of showing it. Omnes. [Re-enters with phial.] The tragic ending was used for American audiences, to avoid portraying a mixed marriage.[4]. Yes, sir; they were the free papers of the girl Zoe; but they were in my husband's secretary. You got dat bottle of rum hid under your blanket---gib it up now, you---Yar! No other cause to hate---to envy me---to be jealous of me---eh? [ToMrs. Sunny. Gentlemen, we are all acquainted with the circumstances of this girl's position, and I feel sure that no one here will oppose the family who desires to redeem the child of our esteemed and noble friend, the late Judge Peyton. The house of Mason Brothers, of Liverpool, failed some twenty years ago in my husband's debt. The earth has been stirred here lately. [1] Pete. I'm on you like a painter, and when I'm drawed out I'm pizin. Zoe realizes that she is in love with him too, but they cannot marry, as she is an Octoroon, and, under 19th century laws, their marriage was legally prohibited. Come, form a court then, choose a jury---we'll fix this varmin. To "Mrs. Peyton, Terrebonne, Louisiana, United States." If you bid me do so I will obey you---. The judge didn't understand accounts---the overseer did. [] If she ain't worth her weight in sunshine, you may take one of my fingers off, and choose which you like." (Act I, Scene 1, Page 24) Zoe. My darling! [Sees tomahawk in Wahnotee's belt---draws it out and examines it.] No, sar; but dem vagabonds neber take de 'specable straight road, dey goes by de swamp. Paul! For what I have done, let me be tried. Pete. Glendon Swarthout, Never believe in any faith younger than you are." I will! This is your own house; we are under your uncle's roof; recollect yourself. Then, as I knelt there, weeping for courage, a snake rattled beside me. The eye of the Eternal was on you---the blessed sun in heaven, that, looking down, struck upon this plate the image of the deed. Hugh vieu. I left that siren city as I would have left a beloved woman. Franco Harris, You have to let it go. No; but you, aunty, you are wise---you know every plant, don't you, and what it is good for? O, no; Mas'r Scudder, don't leave Mas'r Closky like dat---don't, sa---'tain't what good Christian should do. It was that rascal M'Closky---but he got rats, I avow---he killed the boy, Paul, to rob this letter from the mail-bags---the letter from Liverpool you know---he sot fire to the shed---that was how the steamboat got burned up. We work. She didn't mind how kind old judge was to her; and Solon, too, he'll holler, and break de ole lady's heart. "The free papers of my daughter, Zoe, registered February 4th, 1841." Pete, tell Miss Zoe that we are waiting. I say, I'd like to say summit soft to the old woman; perhaps it wouldn't go well, would it? George. Ratts. he does not know, he does not know! Dat wakes him up. Judge, you can raise the hull on mortgage---going for half its value. When you have done joking, gentlemen, you'll say one hundred and twenty thousand. Go on, Colonel. What, Picayune Paul, as we called, him, that used to come aboard my boat?---poor little darkey, I Hope not; many a picayune he picked up for his dance and nigger-songs, and he supplied our table with fish and game from the Bayous. Paul and Wahnotee arrive back with the mailbags and play around with the camera. Scud. The sheriff from New Orleans has taken possession---Terrebonne is in the hands of the law. Here then, I'll put back these Peytons in Terrebonne, and they shall know you done it; yes, they'll have you to thank for saving them from ruin. Give us evidence. a slave! Top Quadroon And Octoroon Quotes. Dora. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. he's coming this way, fighting with his Injiun. *] Now, give it to me. E.---Wahnoteefaces him.---Fight---buss. Do you want me to stop here and bid for it? M'Closky. George still loves Zoe, telling her: "[T]his knowledge brings no revolt to my heart, and I . [ExitMrs. PeytonandSunnysideto house. I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. Dora. Dido. Ya! Thib. Mrs. P.Hospitality in Europe is a courtesy; here, it is an obligation. Zoe, will you remain here? He's yours, Captain Ratts, Magnolia steamer. She nebber was 'worth much 'a dat nigger. Essay Topics. they call it the Yankee hugging the Creole. Now don't stir. [L.] Mr. George, I'm going to say somethin' that has been chokin' me for some time. Wood up thar, you Polio---hang on to the safety valve---guess she'll crawl off on her paddles. Don't b'lieve it, Mas'r George; dem black tings never was born at all; dey swarmed one mornin' on a sassafras tree in the swamp: I cotched 'em; dey ain't no 'count. Pete. George. I was up before daylight. that'll save her. Ha, ha!---[Calls.] If that old nigger ain't asleep, I'm blamed. [Reads.] [Returns to table and drinks.]. Dora. he tinks it's a gun. You're a man as well as an auctioneer, ain't ye? The Octoroon (1913) - Quotes - IMDb Menu Edit The Octoroon (1913) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. That part of it all is performance for the media. [They approach again.]. Dora. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. Yonder is the boy---now is my time! Hold your tongue---it must. He and Zoe admit to their love of each other; a heartbroken Dora leaves. [Advances.] yonder goes the Indian! here's Mas'r Sunnyside, and Missey Dora, jist drov up. This business goes agin me, Ratts---'tain't right. he must not see me. Zoe. [Stands with his hand extended towards the house, and tableau.]. what are you blowing about like a steamboat with one wheel for? Dora. M'Closky. Jackson. The first lot on here is the estate in block, with its sugar-houses, stock, machines, implements, good dwelling-houses and furniture. Brightness will return amongst you. gib it to ole Pete! Yes; No. The term sensation drama caught on when Boucicault's The Colleen Bawn, adapted from Gerald Grifn's novel The Collegians, became a hit in 1860. One hundred and forty-nine bales. That judgment still exists; under it and others this estate is sold to-day. Deborah Blake, I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Gentlemen, I believe none of us have two feelings about the conduct of that man; but he has the law on his side---we may regret, but we must respect it. since you arrived! Ah! Ya!---as he? Come, Mr. Thibodeaux, a man has a chance once in his life---here's yours. Unlock this Study Guide! I'm from fair to middlin', like a bamboo cane, much the same all the year round. O, Mas'r Scudder, he didn't cry zackly; both ob his eyes and cheek look like de bad Bayou in low season---so dry dat I cry for him. Mrs. P.O, sir, I don't value the place for its price, but for the many happy days I've spent here; that landscape, flat and uninteresting though it may be, is full of charm for me; those poor people, born around me, growing up about my heart, have bounded my view of life; and now to lose that homely scene, lose their black, ungainly faces; O, sir, perhaps you should be as old as I am, to feel as I do, when my past life is torn away from me. (p. 221) Daniel J. Siegel. Pete. Mr. George is in love with Zoe. . give me the rest that no master but One can disturb---the sleep from which I shall awake free! He didn't ought to bid against a lady. Just as soon as we put this cotton on board. Cut all away for'ard---overboard with every bale afire. We are catching fire forward; quick, set free from the shore. "I'm afraid to die; yet I am more afraid to live," Zoe says, asking Dido to "protect me from that mando let me die without pain" (70). Is there any other bid? the bags are mine---now for it!---[Opens mail-bags.] Ratts. I've been to the negro quarters. George. Some of you niggers run and hole de hosses; and take dis, Dido. Scud. you seen dem big tears in his eyes. [C.] My dear aunt, why do you not move from this painful scene? At college they said I was a fool---I must be. Scud. George reluctantly agrees. *] What a good creature she is. Hold on, Jacob, I'm coming to that---I tell ye, I'm such a fool---I can't bear the feeling, it keeps at me like a skin complaint, and if this family is sold up---. [*Exit*Mrs. Peyton*and*George,L.U.E.] A slave! Here you are, in the very attitude of your crime! Don't b'lieve dey'll turn out niggers when dey're growed; dey'll come out sunthin else. M'Closky. Paul. No; if you were I'd buy you, if you cost all I'm worth. Pete. Impossible; you have seen no one; whom can you mean? but her image will pass away like a little cloud that obscured your happiness a while---you will love each other; you are both too good not to join your hearts. 49, Paul, a quadroon boy, aged thirteen. Dido. shall we have one law for the red-skin and another for the white? I have remarked that she is treated by the neighbors with a kind of familiar condescension that annoyed me. Darn that girl; she makes me quiver when I think of her; she's took me for all I'm worth. Why don't he return to his nation out West? If I must die, give me up to the law; but save me from the tomahawk. O, you wanted evidence---you called for proof---Heaven has answered and convicted you. Curse their old families---they cut me---a bilious, conceited, thin lot of dried up aristocracy. Mr. Peyton, I presume you have hesitated to make this avowal because you feared, in the present condition of affairs here, your object might be misconstrued, and that your attention was rather to my fortune than myself. Laws, mussey! Hold on! George. [*To*Ratts.] Pete Hamill, The darkest moments for me weren't necessarily winding up in the hospital or anything like that. Nebber supply no more, sar---nebber dance again. Scud. 'Top; you look, you Wahnotee; you see dis rag, eh? Yes, den a glass ob fire-water; now den. O! [SeesPete,*who has set his pail down*L. C.up stage, and goes to sleep on it.] for, darn me, if I can find out. Scud. I'd be darned glad if somebody would tear my past life away from me. Pete. Scud. [Wahnotee*rises and looks atM'Closky---he is in his war paint and fully armed.*]. Jackson, I want to get to Ophelensis to-night. Now's your time, sar. Stay, Mr. Peyton; Zoe, a word! Hillo! It's such a long time since I did this sort of thing, and this old machine has got so dirty and stiff, I'm afraid it won't operate. Dar, do ye hear dat, ye mis'able darkies, dem gals is worth a boat load of kinder men dem is. 1, Solon, a guess boy, and good waiter.". No; like a sugar cane; so dry outside, one would never think there was so much sweetness within. what will become of her when I am gone? I shall knock it down to the Squire---going---gone---for one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. [Takes them.] He don't understand; he speaks a mash-up of Indian and Mexican. Pete. Tousand dollars, Massa Thibodeaux. What you's gwine to do, missey? You say the proceeds of the sale will not cover his debts. Ratts. "No. Author: Dahlia Lithwick. Because it was the truth; and I had rather be a slave with a free soul, than remain free with a slavish, deceitful heart. O! His new cotton gins broke down, the steam sugar-mills burst up, until he finished off with his folly what Mr. M'Closky with his knavery began. If there is no bid for the estate and stuff, we'll sell it in smaller lots. See also Look at 'em, Jacob, for they are honest water from the well of truth. Enjoy reading and share 7 famous quotes about Boucicault The Octoroon with everyone. Ratts. Each word you utter makes my love sink deeper into my heart. Point. Scud. Research Playwrights, Librettists, Composers and Lyricists. Ratts. Author: Mike Watt. I will dine on oysters and palomitas and wash them down with white wine. Good day, ma'am. When I travelled round with this machine, the homely folks used to sing out, "Hillo, mister, this ain't like me!" Scud. I shrunk from it and fled. Pete. I don't care, they were blue this morning, but it don't signify now. What? Scud. M'Closky. Grace. Lafouche. | Contact Us how can you say so? What was this here Scudder? He is sitting on on my prize! 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