Dat's what her soul's gwine to do. yonder goes the Indian! [Enters house.]. I'll sweep these Peytons from this section of the country. Scad. [L.] Yelping hound---take that. Zoe. Of the blood that feeds my heart, one drop in eight is black---bright red as the rest may be, that one drop poisons all the flood; those seven bright drops give me love like yours---hope like yours---ambition like yours---Life hung with passions like dew-drops on the morning flowers; but the one black drop gives me despair, for I'm an unclean thing---forbidden by the laws---I'm an Octoroon! *], [Light fires.---Draw flats and discoverPaul'sgrave.---M'Closky*dead on top of it.---Wahnoteestanding triumphantly over him.*]. Only 10 percent engaged in combat; the American elephant, pursuing the Vietnamese grasshopper, was extraordinarily heavy with logistical support. Be the first to contribute! [*Exit*Mrs. Peyton*and*George,L.U.E.] A slave! you remind me so much of your uncle, the judge. It contains elements of Romanticism and melodrama. But don't mount to nuffin---kin work cannel. The Injiun means that he buried him there! Is de folks head bad? Paul. I know then that the boy was killed with that tomahawk---the red-skin owns it---the signs of violence are all round the shed---this apparatus smashed---ain't it plain that in a drunken fit he slew the boy, and when sober concealed the body yonder? Zoe, listen to me, then. Only three of his plays were to have an American setting, The Octoroon is one of these. How to End "The Octoroon", John A. Degen, Learn how and when to remove this template message, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Octoroon&oldid=1114317331, This page was last edited on 5 October 2022, at 22:08. Zoe. Look there, jurymen. Pete. Don't b'lieve it, Mas'r George,---no. Sunny. how can you say so? O, my---my heart! There's no chance of it. O, here he is. Scud. side.---A table and chairs,R.C. Gracediscovered sitting at breakfast-table with Children. She's won this race agin the white, anyhow; it's too late now to start her pedigree. Judge, my friend. Mrs. P.No wonder! Enjoy reading and share 1 famous quotes about The Octoroon with everyone. Well, that has come out clear, ain't it? Bless'ee, Missey Zoe, here it be. Mrs. Pey. What, Zoe! Paul. You don't expect to recover any of this old debt, do you? Scud. 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. ain't that a pooty gun. Nebber mind, sar, we bring good news---it won't spile for de keeping. 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. M'Closky. | Privacy Policy Make an argument for each side of the slavery argument here, analyzing how the play could be read as both anti- and pro-slavery. I mean that before you could draw that bowie-knife, you wear down your back, I'd cut you into shingles. Here! Mrs. P.Ah! You heard him say it was hopeless. my life, my happy life; why has it been so bright? What say ye? Here you are, in the very attitude of your crime! Ho! You don't see Zoe, Mr. Sunnyside. [Re-enters from boat.] Why don't you speak, sir? Mr. Peyton! Every word of it, Squire. Mrs. P.George, I can't spare Paul for an hour or two; he must run over to the landing; the steamer from New Orleans passed up the river last night, and if there's a mail they have thrown it ashore. Then buy the hands along with the property. Pete. Scud. he must not see me. O, forgive him and me! The word octoroon signifies a person of one-eighth African ancestry. Sunny. [To Jackson.] He's going to do an heroic act; don't spile it. I hope we don't intrude on the family. George. She nebber was 'worth much 'a dat nigger. We must excuse Scudder, friends. Don't you know that she is the natural daughter of the judge, your uncle, and that old lady thar just adored anything her husband cared for; and this girl, that another woman would a hated, she loves as if she'd been her own child. 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. D'ye feel it? Forgive him, Dora; for he knew no better until I told him. George. M'Closky. forgive your poor child. M'Closky. [Opens it.] Seeking 2 Actor Team for Spring No! Sunnyside, Pointdexter, Jackson, Peyton; here it is---the Liverpool post-mark, sure enough!---[Opens letter---reads.] No, I hesitated because an attachment I had formed before I had the pleasure of seeing you had not altogether died out. TheNegromounts the table from behind*C.The Company sit. Now, what have you done to show them the distinction? If we can't behave like Christians, let's try and act like gentlemen. You killed the boy to steal this letter from the mail-bags---you stole this letter, that the money should not arrive in time to save the Octoroon; had it done so, the lien on the estate would have ceased, and Zoe be free. Come, Mrs. Peyton, take my arm. We're ready; the jury's impanelled---go ahead---who'll be accuser? Do you know what that is? Is this a dream---for my brain reels with the blow? Mrs. P.But it may be years yet before it will be paid off, if ever. Pete. Scud. Dora. Scud. Thank'ye. M'Closky. So it is here, in the wilds of the West, where our hatred of crime is measured by the speed of our executions---where necessity is law! I'm from fair to middlin', like a bamboo cane, much the same all the year round. Scud. Aunty, there is sickness up at the house; I have been up all night beside one who suffers, and I remembered that when I had the fever you gave me a drink, a bitter drink, that made me sleep---do you remember it? I tell ye dar's somebody in dar. I bring you news; your banker, old Lafouche, of New Orleans, is dead; the executors are winding up his affairs, and have foreclosed on all overdue mortgages, so Terrebonne is for sale. You've made me cry, then, and I hate you both! Scud. His greatest successes however, were on London's stages. We are catching fire forward; quick, set free from the shore. I---my mother was---no, no---not her! Deborah Blake, I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Paul. The men leave to fetch the authorities, but McClosky escapes. Zoe. Scud. O, I have not spoiled that anyhow. 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.". Sunny. Look here; I can't stand that gal! Ha, ha!---[Calls.] Mrs. P.O, George,---my son, let me call you,---I do not speak for my own sake, nor for the loss of the estate, but for the poor people here; they will be sold, divided, and taken away---they have been born here. Here she is---Zoe!---water---she faints. Art becomes art only when it's shared with others. Point. I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. then I shall be sold!---sold! Improvements---anything, from a stay-lace to a fire-engine. Zoe (an Octoroon Girl, free, the Natural Child of the late Judge by a Quadroon Slave) Mrs. J. H. Allen. Ratts. Judy Collins, You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music." George. What am goin' to cum ob us! look at these fingers; do you see the nails are of a bluish tinge? Mrs. P.[L. C.] My nephew is not acquainted with our customs in Louisiana, but he will soon understand. he tinks it's a gun. Hold on now, Jacob; we've got to figure on that---let us look straight at the thing. Ay, ay! no violence---the critter don't know what we mean. 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. Can you take any more? I do, but I can't do it. save me! He stood gazing in wonder at her work-basket as if it was something extraordinary. I'm responsible for the crittur---go on. It's a good drink to see her come into the cotton fields---the niggers get fresh on the sight of her. Zoe. I thank Heaven you have not lived to see this day. Here we are on the selvage of civilization. You are a white man; you'll not leave one of your own blood to be butchered by the red-skin? Scud. He has a strange way of showing it. If she could not accept me, who could? Zoe. So I came here to you; to you, my own dear nurse; to you, who so often hushed me to sleep when I was a child; who dried my eyes and put your little Zoe to rest. Yes, den a glass ob fire-water; now den. I'm writing about America's relationship to its own history. 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. Subject to your life interest and an annuity to Zoe, is it not so? if you cannot be mine, O, let me not blush when I think of you. Zoe. Pete. [Reading bill.] Burn, burn! Scud. Cut, cut the rope---I choke---choke!---Ah! It's dem black trash, Mas'r George; dis ere property wants claring; dem's getting too numerous round; when I gets time I'll kill some on 'em, sure! Point. "Sign that," says the overseer; "it's only a formality." Lynch him! [Wahnotee*rises and looks atM'Closky---he is in his war paint and fully armed.*]. I the sharer of your sorrows---your wife. Whoever said so lied. My father gives me freedom---at least he thought so. It will cost me all I'm worth. Darn ye! No, it won't; we have confessed to Dora that we love each other. [Aside.] Don't do nuffin. Dora. Pete. Hillo! go on. M'Closky,Why not? that you will not throw me from you like a poisoned thing! [Points with knife off,R.] D'ye see that tree?---it's called a live oak, and is a native here; beside it grows a creeper; year after year that creeper twines its long arms round and round the tree---sucking the earth dry all about its roots---living on its life---overrunning its branches, until at last the live oak withers and dies out. she will har you. Lafouche. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart. Pete. Mrs. P.No, George; say you wept like a man. Hark! or say the word, and I'll buy this old barrack, and you shall be mistress of Terrebonne. Scud. He wanted to know what furniture she had in her bedroom, the dresses she wore, the people she knew; even his physical desire for her gave way to a deeper yearning, a boundless, aching curiosity. ], Pete. Will you hush? 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. Were they all born on this estate? [Advances.] M'Closky. [Speaking in his ear-trumpet.] Not a bale. Never mind. There's one name on the list of slaves scratched, I see. Ugh! If you bid me do so I will obey you---. war's de crowd gone? I don't think you capable of anything else than---. He who can love so well is honest---don't speak ill of poor Wahnotee. Was dat?---a cry out dar in de swamp---dar agin! Dora. I will dine on oysters and palomitas and wash them down with white wine. M'Closky. for me---look ye here! What's dat? O, let all go, but save them! Just as soon as we put this cotton on board. I believe Mr. M'Closky has a bill of sale on them. I've got engaged eight hundred bales at the next landing, and one hundred hogsheads of sugar at Patten's Slide---that'll take my guards under---hurry up thar. [Wahnotee*raises apron and runs off,*L.U.E.Paul*sits for his picture---M'Closkyappears from*R.U.E.]. M'Closky. But now that vagrant love is---eh? ], George. What was this here Scudder? Ha! Put your hands on your naked breasts, and let every man as don't feel a real American heart there, bustin' up with freedom, truth, and right, let that man step out---that's the oath I put to ye---and then say, Darn ye, go it! Dat's me---yer, I'm comin'---stand around dar. Hold on, you'll see. [Returns to table and drinks.]. Hold on a bit. 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. Pete. It's not a painful death, aunty, is it? Do you know what I am? Why don't he return to his nation out West? Traduced! The murder is captured on Scudder's photographic apparatus. Paul. 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. whew! Dion Boucicault. Brightness will return amongst you. O, that's it, is it? To be alive is to be breathing. New York, NY, Ages 12-17: Camp Broadway Ensemble @ Carnegie Hall It carried that easy on mortgage. One hundred and forty-nine bales. that he isn't to go on fooling in his slow---. Boucicault The Octoroon Quotes & Sayings. When you have done joking, gentlemen, you'll say one hundred and twenty thousand. Dora. Scud. A mistake, sar---forty-six. George. George. I will take the best room in the Grand Central or the Orndorff Hotel. It is in the hearts of brave men, who can tell right from wrong, and from whom justice can't be bought. I hate 'em. The buyers gather to take away the slaves they have purchased on a steamship. 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. [To the men.] O, Miss Zoe, why you ask ole Dido for dis pizen? Pete. No other cause to hate---to envy me---to be jealous of me---eh? The tragic ending was used for American audiences, to avoid portraying a mixed marriage.[4]. Lafouche. Point. [Opens desk.] "No. Hello! Because, Miss Sunnyside, I have not learned to lie. Be calm---darn the things; the proceeds of this sale won't cover the debts of the estate. It's surely worth the love that dictated it; here are the papers and accounts. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. George. 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. Grace. Paul. Share with your friends. Zoe, will you remain here? Ratts. Hark! Scud. [Fire seen,R.]. Look here, you're free, you know nary a master to hurt you now: you will stop here as long as you're a mind to, only don't look so. Sunny. Dora said you were slow; if she could hear you now---. Scud. You'll take care, I guess, it don't go too cheap. 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. George. Five hundred bid---it's a good price. Sunny. I will! M'Closky. [Sits. Scud. this infernal letter would have saved all. [*Enter*George,C.] Ah! Make bacon of me, you young whelp. No, Injiun; we deal out justice here, not revenge. The Octoroon Quotes & Sayings Happy to read and share the best inspirational The Octoroon quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes. Ratts. 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. Zoe. I can never sleep now without dreaming. Is there any other bid? [They approach again.]. We can leave this country, and go far away where none can know. That is the ineffaceable curse of Cain. O! [Darts between them.] he does not know, he does not know! No, sir; you have omitted the Octoroon girl, Zoe. I couldn't bear to see him put to work. George. Poor fellow, he has lost all. is this true?---no, it ain't---darn it, say it ain't. Zoe. Hole yer tongues. [A pause.] Dido. [ExitMrs. PeytonandSunnysideto house. he's coming this way, fighting with his Injiun. I love one who is here, and he loves me---George. What more d'ye want---ain't that proof enough? Death was there beside me, and I dared not take it. I think we may begin business. [*To*Wahnotee.] She loves him! George. M'Closky. Dido. No; but you, aunty, you are wise---you know every plant, don't you, and what it is good for? if this is so, she's mine! [Dies.---George*lowers her head gently.---Kneels.---Others form picture. What? ", Zoe. my dear, dear father! Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. Point. I've got hold of the tail of a rat---come out. Your own Zoe, that loves you, aunty, so much, so much.---[Gets phial.] Ratts. I shall knock it down to the Squire---going---gone---for one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. What was her name? Ratts. George. It won't do! Come, cheer up, old friend. Mrs. Pey. But the creditors will not claim the gal? By ten I was playing competitively. Ratts. *EnterMrs. PeytonandScudder, M'Closkyand*Pointdexter,R. M'Closky. Weenee Paul. That's Solon's wife and children, Judge. He plans to buy her and make her his mistress. [Takes them.] You don't come here to take life easy. things have got so jammed in on top of us, we ain't got time to put kid gloves on to handle them. [*Exit*Thibodeaux, Sunnyside, Ratts, Pointdexter, Grace, Jackson, Lafouche, Caillou, Solon,R.U.E. Scud. M'Closky. You can bet I'm going to make this . Hold on yere, George Peyton; you sit down there. 2, the yellow girl Grace, with two children---Saul, aged four, and Victoria five." What's the matter, Ratts? He's yours, Captain Ratts, Magnolia steamer. "No," say Mas'r George, "I'd rather sell myself fuss; but dey shan't suffer, nohow,---I see 'em dam fuss.". [Indignantly.] [2] Among antebellum melodramas, it was considered second in popularity only to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852).[3]. M'Closky. Zoe. Mrs. Claiborne Miss Clinton. Ya!---as he? I'm gwine! Dora. She's in love with young Peyton; it made me curse, whar it made you cry, as it does now; I see the tears on your cheeks now. Ah. De time he gone just 'bout enough to cook dat dish plate. Fire!---one, two, three. With Dora's wealth, he explains, Terrebonne will not be sold and the slaves will not have to be separated. Go with Dora to Sunnyside. Pete Hamill, The darkest moments for me weren't necessarily winding up in the hospital or anything like that. I wish they could sell me! I saw a small bottle of cologne and asked if it was for sale. I want you to buy Terrebonne. "No. Zoe, must we immolate our lives on her prejudice? The first mortgagee bids forty thousand dollars. Ratts. Jackson. May Heaven bless him for the thought, bless him for the happiness he spread around my life. [Throws down apron.] *] What a good creature she is. M'Closky. O, law, sir, dat debil Closky, he tore hisself from de gen'lam, knock me down, take my light, and trows it on de turpentine barrels, and de shed's all afire! Wahnotee. He's an Injiun---fair play. O, here, do you know what annuity the old judge left you is worth to-day? Scud. What? M'Closky. [Solon goes down and stands behind Ratts.] Grace. Ratts. Eleven hundred---going---going---sold! M'Closky. 'Tis true! I've been to the negro quarters. O, laws-a-mussey, see dis; here's a pictur' I found stickin' in that yar telescope machine, sar! Thib. Jackson. Alas! Dora. Twelve thousand. burn! Excuse me ladies. I only come back to find Wahnotee; whar is dat ign'ant Ingiun? Essay Topics. Hi! Ten miles we've had to walk, because some blamed varmin onhitched our dug-out. He can fight though he's a painter; claws all over. [Rising.] Brian Tracy, How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. Say, Mas'r Scudder, take me in dat telescope? can you smile at this moment? Dem doctors ain't no 'count; dey don't know nuffin. The devil I am! Unlock this Study Guide! I'd give half the balance of my life to wipe out my part of the work. Hillo, darkey, hand me a smash dar. Dido. I arrived just too late, he had grabbed the prize as I came up. laws a massey! I don't like that man. You'se a dead man, Mas'r Clusky---you got to b'lieve dat. No; like a sugar cane; so dry outside, one would never think there was so much sweetness within. Scud. Mrs. P.And you hesitated from motives of delicacy? 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---. That's his programme---here's a pocket-book. You may drink dat, Mas'r George. Well, is he not thus afflicted now? You! Hee! Dido. I'll see you round the estate. I am free! In comparison, a quadroon would have one quarter African ancestry and a mulatto for the most part has historically implied half African ancestry. I'll put the naughty parts in French. The machine can't err---you may mistake your phiz but the apparatus don't." [Offers hand,Georgebows coldly,R. C.] [aside.] Scud. Your birth---I know it. Scud. Says he'll go if I'll go with him. And dar's de 'paratus---O, gosh, if I could take a likeness ob dis child! Is not Dora worth any man's---. No, [looks off,R.] 'tis Pete and the servants---they come this way. If you want a quarrel---. Paul. what are you blowing about like a steamboat with one wheel for? Scud. See also Dis yer prop'ty to be sold---old Terrebonne---whar we all been raised, is gwine---dey's gwine to tak it away---can't stop here no how. Author: Dahlia Lithwick. Scud. No---no. Between us we've ruined these Peytons; you fired the judge, and I finished off the widow. [Seated,R. C.] Fan me, Minnie.---[Aside.] [*Exit*Dora,L.U.E.] What on earth does that child mean or want? 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. Well, ma'am, I spose there's no law agin my bidding for it. McClosky, however, outbids her for Zoe; George is restrained from attacking him by his friends. Point. A puppy, if he brings any of his European airs here we'll fix him.---[Aloud.] Let him answer for the boy, then. No, dear. The last word, an important colloquialism, was misread by the typesetter of the play. Dion Boucicault Quotes - BrainyQuote. Ain't he! Well, he lived in New York by sittin' with his heels up in front of French's Hotel, and inventin'---. But dis ain't all. Scud. "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). Pete. [Laughs.]. But now I guess it will arrive too late---these darned U. S. mails are to blame. Dora. George. George. Good day, ma'am. 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. [Stands with his hand extended towards the house, and tableau.]. [Exit slowly, as if concealing himself,R.U.E. George. [R.U.E.] I was raised on dis yar plantation---neber see no door in it---always open, sar, for stranger to walk in. For what I have done, let me be tried. See also Trivia | Goofs | Crazy Credits | Alternate Versions | Connections | Soundtracks Ages 12-17: Camp Broadway Ensemble @ Carnegie Hall. Consarn those Liverpool English fellers, why couldn't they send something by the last mail? Lafouche. What you's gwine to do, missey? Scud. Author: Mike Watt. Go now, George---leave me---take her with you. And what shall I say? Where is Mr. Scudder? If you haven't spoiled her, I fear I have. ], Paul. [During the reading of letter he remains nearly motionless under the focus of the camera.] It is an adaptation of Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon , which premiered in 1859. George. Ratts. Scud. Zoe, he's going; I want him to stay and make love to me that's what I came for to-day. What! EnterScudder, George, Ratts, Caillou, Pete, Grace, Minnie,and all theNegroes. After various slaves are auctioned off, George and the buyers are shocked to see Zoe up on the stand. yes, plenty of 'em; bill of costs; account with Citizens' Bank---what's this? I see my little Nimrod yonder, with his Indian companion. Go on, Pete, you've waked up the Christian here, and the old hoss responds. Scud. Take your hand down---take it down. M'Closky. I must keep you, Captain, to the eleven hundred. M'Closky. [Outside,R.U.E.] Dis way---dis way. Let her pass! Yes, missus. Now don't stir. [Reads.] [Laughing.] I feel so big with joy, creation ain't wide enough to hold me. Mr. Lafouche, why, how do you do, sir? George. Point. Scud. Calm as a tombstone, and with about as much life. Dora then reappears and bids on Zoe she has sold her own plantation in order to rescue Terrebonne. Dido. [Aside to Zoe.] Wahnotee Patira na sepau assa wigiran. Darn me, if I couldn't raise thirty thousand on the envelope alone, and ten thousand more on the post-mark. Race or not, it's a story about . He is incapable of any but sincere and pure feelings---so are you. [Who has been looking about the camera.] George, you know not what you say. 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