Ain't he! for, darn me, if I can find out. I'm 'most afraid to take Wahnotee to the shed, there's rum there. EnterSolon*andDidowith coffee-pot, dishes, &c.,*R.U.E. Dido. Impossible; you have seen no one; whom can you mean? 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. It wants an hour yet to daylight---here is Pete's hut---[Knocks.] No; the hitching line was cut with a knife. Lafouche. 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. [Aside.] Mrs. P.Terrebonne for sale, and you, sir, will doubtless become its purchaser. Ten miles we've had to walk, because some blamed varmin onhitched our dug-out. Zoe, you are suffering---your lips are white---your cheeks are flushed. [L.] Mr. George, I'm going to say somethin' that has been chokin' me for some time. [*To*Zoe.] or say the word, and I'll buy this old barrack, and you shall be mistress of Terrebonne. Look there. No. Ratts. M'Closky. [Aside.] faded---is it not? Yes, for you, for me, for dem little ones, dem folks cried. Do not weep, George. Hello! The men begin to call for McClosky to be lynched, but Scudder convinces them to send him to jail instead. That's just what you must do, and do it at once, or it will be too late. Sorry I can't return the compliment. Job had none of them critters on his plantation, else he'd never ha' stood through so many chapters. [To Jackson.] Despite the happiness Zoe stands dying and the play ends with her death on the sitting-room couch and George kneeling beside her. | Contact Us You will not forget poor Zoe! Cum, for de pride of de family, let every darky look his best for the judge's sake---dat ole man so good to us, and dat ole woman---so dem strangers from New Orleans shall say, Dem's happy darkies, dem's a fine set of niggars; every one say when he's sold, "Lor' bless dis yer family I'm gwine out of, and send me as good a home.". In cash? Pete. Is my plantation at Comptableau worth this? The men accuse Wahnotee of the murder, and McClosky calls for him to be lynched. Mr. Sunnyside, I can't do this job of showin' round the folks; my stomach goes agin it. It is such scenes as these that bring disgrace upon our Western life. Ugh! [Knocks.] Mrs. P.Why, George, I never suspected this! M'Closky. [Makes sign thatPaulwas killed by a blow on the head.]. Scud. Dora. The Octoroon This project is the construction of an annotated, digitized text of the American and British versions of Dion Boucicault's controversial 1859 melodrama of interracial relationships and plantation life in antebellum Louisiana, with an archive of materials on performance for scholarly and pedagogical use. Will ye? Research Playwrights, Librettists, Composers and Lyricists. Go on, Pete, you've waked up the Christian here, and the old hoss responds. In comparison, a quadroon would have one quarter African ancestry and a mulatto for the most part has historically implied half African ancestry. [Looking at watch.] Haven't you worked like a horse? We must excuse Scudder, friends. I suppose I shall go before long, and I wished to visit all the places, once again, to see the poor people. you're looking well. Scud. 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. Zoe, tell Pete to give my mare a feed, will ye? No other cause to hate---to envy me---to be jealous of me---eh? George. [Draws pistol---M'Closky*rushes on and falls atScudder'sfeet.*]. [Doraattempts to take it.] there's that noise again! Essay Topics. Do you want me to stop here and bid for it? ah! Point. Ah! Pete. She loves him! Come, Paul, are you ready? I'll have her, if it costs me my life! that he isn't to go on fooling in his slow---. If Omenee remain, Wahnotee will die in Terrebonne. It was like trying to make a shark sit up and beg for treats. Zoe. Jackson. I'll see to that. Ivan Glasenberg, Very few things hurt my young ego more than an Asian female openly shaming me for my Asian-ness. I've got four plates ready, in case we miss the first shot. What was her name? if you cannot be mine, O, let me not blush when I think of you. M'Closky. What's here? Missey Zoe! Closky tue Paul---kill de child with your tomahawk dar; 'twasn't you, no---ole Pete allus say so. EnterPete,with lantern, andScudder,with note book,R. Scud. [Shakes hands withGeorge.] If she ain't worth her weight in sunshine you may take one of my fingers off, and choose which you like. Squire Sunnyside, you've got a pretty bit o' land, Squire. Scud. Zoe. Why don't he return to his nation out West? Seize him, then! Yes, I love you---I did not know it until your words showed me what has been in my heart; each of them awoke a new sense, and now I know how unhappy---how very unhappy I am. [Wakes.] He is sitting on on my prize! Scud. Traduced! [Examines paper.]. [Knocks.] Calm as a tombstone, and with about as much life. [Sits down.] Wahnotee tracks him down and confronts him; in the ensuing struggle, Wahnotee kills McClosky. Pete. The earth has been stirred here lately. I would be alone a little while. My home, my home! If you want a quarrel---. Gustave Flaubert, Not that anyone short of God Almighty could have gotten Marcus Senior to rest and take it easy. This New York Times article cautions its readers against jumping to conclusions about Boucicault's intentions in the writing of the play and downplays . Why don't you speak, sir? I must be going---it is late. Scud. this is worth taking to---in this desk the judge used to keep one paper I want---this should be it. Dido. Pete. When you have done joking, gentlemen, you'll say one hundred and twenty thousand. Zoe. George, do you see that hand you hold? Sunny. 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. George. Then I shall never leave Terrebonne---the drink, nurse; the drink; that I may never leave my home---my dear, dear home. [Raising his voice.] Scud. Pete. You'll take care, I guess, it don't go too cheap. [Offers hand,Georgebows coldly,R. C.] [aside.] If I must die, give me up to the law; but save me from the tomahawk. Scud. Thib. Scud. Pete. den run to dat pine tree up dar [points,L.U.E.] and back agin, and den pull down de rag so, d'ye see? Hush! He stood gazing in wonder at her work-basket as if it was something extraordinary. Scud. George. Scud. | Contact Us Hold on, now! Dora. Zoe. Hush! that you will not throw me from you like a poisoned thing! I'll clear him off there---he'll never know what stunned him. I've got hold of the tail of a rat---come out. [Music. Here, you tell it, since you know it. When George asks why, Zoe explains that she is an octoroon, and the law prevents a white man from marrying anyone with the smallest black heritage. E. Paul. Scud. This is your own house; we are under your uncle's roof; recollect yourself. Point. Twelve thousand. You may drink dat, Mas'r George. Dere's a dish of pen-pans---jess taste, Mas'r George---and here's fried bananas; smell 'em, do, sa glosh. The Octoroon or The Lily of Louisiana is a dark tale of crime, race and slavery. Your birth---I know it. go on. Captain, you've loaded up here until the boat is sunk so deep in the mud she won't float. [*Throws bowie-knife to*M'Closky.] Point. How dar you say dat, you black nigger, you? George. Peyton.] Scud. I want Pete here a minute. What, you won't, won't ye? Gentlemen, the sale takes place at three. The house of Mason Brothers, of Liverpool, failed some twenty years ago in my husband's debt. [Wrenches it from him.] A mistake, sar---forty-six. George. dat right! No; like a sugar cane; so dry outside, one would never think there was so much sweetness within. I wish to speak to you. Zoe. I'm not guilty; would ye murder me? Zoe. Why you speak so wild? The last word, an important colloquialism, was misread by the typesetter of the play. George. And we all got rich from it, so, you know, there's a benefit from it. O! She said, "It's free with purchase." Take your hand down---take it down. Scud. Where is he? Top The Octoroon Quotes I will be thirty years old again in thirty seconds. Scud. The Octoroon Quotes & Sayings Happy to read and share the best inspirational The Octoroon quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes. The auctioneer arrives, along with prospective buyers, McClosky among them. Scud. He who can love so well is honest---don't speak ill of poor Wahnotee. ha---git out! No---in kind---that is, in protection, forbearance, gentleness; in all them goods that show the critters the difference between the Christian and the savage. How the flames crack. That one black drop of blood burns in her veins and lights up her heart like a foggy sun. In an act of desperation she drinks a vial of poison, and Scudder enters to deliver the good news that McClosky was proven guilty of murdering Paul and that Terrebonne now belongs to George. Here 'tis---now you give one timble-full---dat's nuff. Because, Miss Sunnyside, I have not learned to lie. Scud. Save me---save me! Pete. Hold on now, Jacob; we've got to figure on that---let us look straight at the thing. EnterLafoucheand*Jackson,L. Jackson. No; Wahnotee is a gentle, honest creature, and remains here because he loves that boy with the tenderness of a woman. The word octoroon signifies a person of one-eighth African ancestry. Whar's de coffee? Will she gladly see you wedded to the child of her husband's slave? Ha! This blow has staggered me some. [Weeping.] Paul. Ugh' ach! [*Gives her coffee-pot to hold, and hobbles off, followed bySolonand*Dido,R.U.E.], Sunny. No, ma'am; here's the plan of it. I appeal against your usurped authority. It ain't no use now; you got to gib it up! M'Closkyruns off,L.1. Point. This lynch law is a wild and lawless proceeding. Point. Stop; this would. Top, you varmin! You p'tend to be sorry for Paul, and prize him like dat. All there is there would kill one, wouldn't it? He sleeps---no; I see a light. [Georgepours contents of phial in glass. M'Closky. The Octoroon: The Story of the Turpentine Forest (1909) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. Zoe. Paul. Ho! 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. Sunny. Share with your friends. Race or not, it's a story about . The Octoroon (1912) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. Enjoy reading and share 1 famous quotes about The Octoroonwith everyone. Yes, I'm here, somewhere, interferin'. [Aside.] I will! Mrs. P.[Embracing him.] Pete. My love? M'Closky. [Outside,R.U.E.] Dis way---dis way. Never mind. M'Closky. So we believe; and so mad are the folks around, if they catch the red-skin they'll lynch him sure. Not a bale. I will, quicker than lightning. Deep songs don't come from the surface; they come from the deep down. Minnie (a Quadroon Slave) Miss Walters. To "Mrs. Peyton, Terrebonne, Louisiana, United States." Hillo, darkey, hand me a smash dar. Scud. No, Pete; no, I won't. George. A draft for eighty-five thousand dollars, and credit on Palisse and Co., of New Orleans, for the balance. Hush! George. look at these fingers; do you see the nails are of a bluish tinge? Between us we've ruined these Peytons; you fired the judge, and I finished off the widow. Mrs. P.Wahnotee, will you go back to your people? It's no use you putting on airs; I ain't gwine to sit up wid you all night and you drunk. Alas! Alex Tizon, To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen in the light. Dora. Grace (a Yellow Girl, a Slave) Miss Gimber Dido (the Cook, a Slave) Mrs. Dunn. Mr. George is in love with Zoe. Well when I say go, den lift dis rag like dis, see! O, golly! Pete Hamill, The darkest moments for me weren't necessarily winding up in the hospital or anything like that. I had but one Master on earth, and he has given me my freedom! You are right, sir; though I shrank from expressing that opinion in her presence, so bluntly. You know you can't be jealous of a poor creature like me. Yes! Where am I to get it? Sunny. Dora then reappears and bids on Zoe she has sold her own plantation in order to rescue Terrebonne. Wahnotee. [Zoe sings without,L.]. Dora. Mr. Scudder, I've listened to a great many of your insinuations, and now I'd like to come to an understanding what they mean. It ain't our sile, I believe, rightly; but Nature has said that where the white man sets his foot, the red man and the black man shall up sticks and stand around. Pete. Paul! Pete. But what do we pay for that possession? The first mortgagee bids forty thousand dollars. 49, Paul, a quadroon boy, aged thirteen. The Octoroon Act II Summary & Analysis. M'Closky overhears their conversation, but still vows he'll "have her if it costs [him] [his] life" (44). Do you know what I am? It is certain, madam; the judge was negligent, and doubtless forgot this small formality. Scud. How can she then ask her father to free me? I arrived just too late, he had grabbed the prize as I came up. Many a night I've laid awake and thought how to pull them through, till I've cried like a child over the sum I couldn't do; and you know how darned hard 'tis to make a Yankee cry. George. (p. 221) Daniel J. Siegel. I know you'll excuse it. Terrebonne is yours. Scud. The judge didn't understand accounts---the overseer did. George. [Aside to Sunnyside.] George. Listen to me. What's this, eh? Yes, we do, ma'am; it's in a darned bad condition. What a find! "All right," says the judge, and away went a thousand acres; so at the end of eight years, Jacob M'Closky, Esquire, finds himself proprietor of the richest half of Terrebonne---. [DrivesChildrenaway; in escaping they tumble against and trip upSolon,who falls with tray; theChildrensteal the bananas and rolls that fall about.]. Buy me, Mas'r Ratts, do buy me, sar? See also Trivia | Goofs | Crazy Credits | Alternate Versions | Connections | Soundtracks Getting Started | Contributor Zone I could not do it. I'm waiting on your fifty thousand bid. Ratts. That is the ineffaceable curse of Cain. That part of it all is performance for the media. It's near that now, and there's still the sugar-houses to be inspected. If there's a chance of it, there's not a planter round here who wouldn't lend you the whole cash, to keep your name and blood amongst us. One hundred thousand bid for this mag---. M'Closky. Wahnotee. Hold on a bit, I get you de bottle. I mean that before you could draw that bowie-knife, you wear down your back, I'd cut you into shingles. Grace. Zoe. Pete. Now, it ain't no use trying to get mad, Mas'r Scudder. Come, form a court then, choose a jury---we'll fix this varmin. Stop! He is incapable of any but sincere and pure feelings---so are you. I'll bear it. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. O, Mr. Scudder! You are illegitimate, but love knows no prejudice. Then I will go to the Red Light or the Monte Carlo and dance the floor afire. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. M'Closky. [Re-enters with phial.] No! Copyright 2023 Famous Quotes & Sayings. and my master---O! Good morning, Colonel. The New York Times noted 'its striking merits as a sensational drama' [*Hands papers to*Mrs. I lost them in the cedar swamp---again they haunted my path down the bayou, moving as I moved, resting when I rested---hush! Yes, missus. M'Closky. George. The Octoroon is appropriately considered a sensation drama, though it received the label retrospectively. you bomn'ble fry---git out---a gen'leman can't pass for you. [*Exit*Mrs. Peyton*and*George,L.U.E.] A slave! [R.] Well, what's the use of argument whar guilt sticks out so plain; the boy and Injiun were alone when last seen. M'Closky. Hole yer tongues. Zoe is your child by a quadroon slave, and you didn't free her; blood! Lafouche. Hole yer tongue, Dido. My dear mother---Mr. Scudder---you teach me what I ought to do; if Miss Sunnyside will accept me as I am, Terrebonne shall be saved; I will sell myself, but the slaves shall be protected. Peyton.] You see dat hole in dar, sar. They owed him over fifty thousand dollars. save me! [ExitMrs. PeytonandSunnysideto house. I have remarked that she is treated by the neighbors with a kind of familiar condescension that annoyed me. Sunny. Scud. I will dine on oysters and palomitas and wash them down with white wine. [Opens desk.] Then, if they go, they'll take Zoe---she'll follow them. George. Where's that man from Mobile that wanted to give one hundred and eighty thousand? She refuses, but Zoe steals the bottle from her anyway and runs off. Point. Dido. Then, if I sink every dollar I'm worth in her purchase, I'll own that Octoroon. I left it last night all safe. Zoe. That's about right. And we all Well, is he not thus afflicted now? Born here! The injiun! George. Grace. MINNIE played by an African-American actress, a black actress, or an actress of color. Ay, ay! Let me relate you the worst cases. Pointdexter*mounts the table with his hammer, his Clerk sits at his feet. How came they in your possession? O, aunt! M'Closky. See here---there's a small freight of turpentine in the fore hold there, and one of the barrels leaks; a spark from your engines might set the ship on fire, and you'd go with it. Here we are on the selvage of civilization. George. Now, den, if Grace dere wid her chil'n were all sold, she'll begin screechin' like a cat. When Paul was taken down with the swamp fever the Indian sat outside the hut, and neither ate, slept, or spoke for five days, till the child could recognize and call him to his bedside. Scud. You can't control everything in life Gemma Burgess, Never had he beheld such a magnificent brown skin, so entrancing a figure, such dainty, transparent fingers. Enjoy the best Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Quotes at BrainyQuote. Zoe. Here, stay! he's coming this way, fighting with his Injiun. Stop! I shan't interfere. Scud. Zoe. I the sharer of your sorrows---your wife. Silence in the court; stand back, let the gentlemen of the jury retire, consult, and return their verdict. Dora. Pete. if I stop here, I shall hug her right off. George. I'll see you round the estate. Paul. Scudder insists that they hold a trial, and the men search for evidence. she will har you. Mrs. P.Read, George. Bless'ee, Missey Zoe, here it be. Dora. Ah! I shall knock it down to the Squire---going---gone---for one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. look here, these Peytons are bust; cut 'em; I am rich, jine me; I'll set you up grand, and we'll give these first families here our dust, until you'll see their white skins shrivel up with hate and rage; what d'ye say? Hillo! Raits. You slew him with that tomahawk; and as you stood over his body with the letter in your hand, you thought that no witness saw the deed, that no eye was on you---but there was, Jacob M'Closky, there was. Lafouche. Seeking 2 Actor Team for Spring We got the horses saddled, and galloped down the shell road over the Piney Patch; then coasting the Bayou Lake, we crossed the long swamps, by Paul's Path, and so came home again. And all for the sake of that old woman and that young puppy---eh? a slave! Dora. ], George. George, George, your words take away my breath! A puppy, if he brings any of his European airs here we'll fix him.---[Aloud.] Zoe. [Re-enters from boat.] George. Why you tremble so? He has a strange way of showing it. Dat you drink is fust rate for red fever. George, dear George, do you love me? Get out, you cub! I hope it will turn out better than most of my notions. M'Closky. what are you doing there, you young varmint! [Dances.]. I don't think you capable of anything else than---. Zoe. They are gone!---[*Glancing at*George.] All Rights Reserved. "Judgment, 40,000, 'Thibodeaux against Peyton,'"---surely, that is the judgment under which this estate is now advertised for sale---[takes up paper and examines it]; yes, "Thibodeaux against Peyton, 1838." Five hundred bid---it's a good price. It's surely worth the love that dictated it; here are the papers and accounts. Deborah Blake, I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Zoe, the more I see of George Peyton the better I like him; but he is too modest---that is a very impertinent virtue in a man. When he speaks to one he does it so easy, so gentle; it isn't bar-room style; love lined with drinks, sighs tinged with tobacco---and they say all the women in Paris were in love with him, which I feelIshall be; stop fanning me; what nice boots he wears. Sunny. [Wahnotee*runs on, pulls down apron---seesPaul,lying on ground--- speaks to him---thinks he's shamming sleep---gesticulates and jabbers--- goes to him---moves him with feet, then kneels down to rouse him---to his horror finds him dead---expresses great grief---raises his eyes--- they fall upon the camera---rises with savage growl, seizes tomahawk and smashes camera to pieces, then goes toPaul---expresses grief, sorrow, and fondness, and takes him in his arms to carry him away.--- Tableau.*]. I say---he smoke and smoke, but nebber look out ob de fire; well knowing dem critters, I wait a long time---den he say, "Wahnotee, great chief;" den I say nothing---smoke anoder time---last, rising to go, he turn round at door, and say berry low---O, like a woman's voice, he say, "Omenee Pangeuk,"---dat is, Paul is dead---nebber see him since. M'Closky. M'Closky. George. George. He and Zoe admit to their love of each other; a heartbroken Dora leaves. come home---there are strangers in the house. [He is borne off in boat, struggling. George, O, forgive me! No, ma'am, I worked like an ass---an honest one, and that's all. 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. air you true? With Dora's wealth, he explains, Terrebonne will not be sold and the slaves will not have to be separated. [Outside,R.] Whar's Missus---whar's Mas'r George? What's this? Jacob M'Closky, you shan't have that girl. Mrs. P.The child was a favorite of the judge, who encouraged his gambols. The Octoroon (1913) - Quotes - IMDb Menu Edit The Octoroon (1913) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. burn! M'Closky. [Sits,R. C.]. You can bet I'm going to make this . Debbel's in de pail! Pete. You say the proceeds of the sale will not cover his debts. M'Closky. I think we may begin business. 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