Hillo! Would you rob me first, and murder me afterwards? Peyton.]. George. Zoe, what have I said to wound you? [Aside.] [Sighing.] Go on, Pete, you've waked up the Christian here, and the old hoss responds. Don't be a fool; they'd kill you, and then take her, just as soon as---stop; Old Sunnyside, he'll buy her! Paul. Dora. Can't be ober dar an' here too---I ain't twins. Hush! Go with Dora to Sunnyside. This business goes agin me, Ratts---'tain't right. I'm writing about America's relationship to its own history. [ExitMrs. PeytonandSunnysideto house. [*Enter*George,C.] Ah! No, dear. what are you blowing about like a steamboat with one wheel for? Scud. I'm broke, Solon---I can't stop the Judge. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Scud. 'Tain't you he has injured, 'tis the white man, whose laws he has offended. | Privacy Policy Hold on now, Jacob; we've got to figure on that---let us look straight at the thing. At college they said I was a fool---I must be. [Inside room.] [Zoe*helps her. [Cry of "fire" heard---Engine bells heard---steam whistle noise.]. Wahnotee. He looked in to see what stopped it, and pulled out a big mortgage. What's here? M'Closky. How long before we start, captain? Eight hundred agin, then---I'll go it. [Throws mail bags down and sits on them,L. C.] Pret, now den go. Darn ye! I can never sleep now without dreaming. Zoe. Dora. Scud. 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. It's not a painful death, aunty, is it? If you want a quarrel---. George. Zoe. Pete. Scud. Lynch him! Mrs. P.Hospitality in Europe is a courtesy; here, it is an obligation. 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. *, M'Closky. Pete. Judge, you can raise the hull on mortgage---going for half its value. Tullian Tchividjian. that you will not throw me from you like a poisoned thing! The devil I am! Act II Summary. I'm 'most afraid to take Wahnotee to the shed, there's rum there.
Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. 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. He sleeps---no; I see a light. here's a bit of leather; [draws out mail-bags] the mail-bags that were lost! I have come to say good-by, sir; two hard words---so hard, they might break many a heart; mightn't they? You p'tend to be sorry for Paul, and prize him like dat. [*Hands papers to*Mrs. I mean that before you could draw that bowie-knife, you wear down your back, I'd cut you into shingles. Zoe. Copyright 2023 Famous Quotes & Sayings. George. And all for the sake of that old woman and that young puppy---eh? I only come back to find Wahnotee; whar is dat ign'ant Ingiun? Let her pass! Boucicault adapted the play from the novel The Quadroon by Thomas Mayne Reid (1856). It is in the hearts of brave men, who can tell right from wrong, and from whom justice can't be bought. Hey! You're bidding to separate them, Judge. Poor Injiun lub our little Paul. Will you forgive me? Pete. here are marks of blood---look thar, red-skin, what's that? [Goes up.]. M'Closky. You'se a dead man, Mas'r Clusky---you got to b'lieve dat. Dat's me---yer, I'm comin'---stand around dar. All there is there would kill one, wouldn't it? Scud. I suppose I shall go before long, and I wished to visit all the places, once again, to see the poor people. No---no. O, Zoe! Lafouche. Wahnote*swims on---finds trail---follows him. 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. Zoe. Is that you, Mr. Overseer? Hold quiet, you trash o' niggers! Zoe. She has had the education of a lady. Pete. M'Closky. M'Closky. We've caught this murdering Injiun, and are going to try him. O! George. [They rush onM'Closky,and disarm him.] 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. Dam dat Injiun! [Takes out his knife. [*Exit*Mrs. Peyton*and*George,L.U.E.] A slave! Whoever said so lied. M'Closky. You blow, Mas'r Scudder, when I tole you; dere's a man from Noo Aleens just arriv' at de house, and he's stuck up two papers on de gates; "For sale---dis yer property," and a heap of oder tings---and he seen missus, and arter he shown some papers she burst out crying---I yelled; den de corious of little niggers dey set up, den de hull plantation children---de live stock reared up and created a purpiration of lamentation as did de ole heart good to har. Zoe. Dora said you were slow; if she could hear you now---. 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. George---George---hush---they come! Beat that any of ye. [Slowly lowering his whip,] Darn you, red skin, I'll pay you off some day, both of ye. Point. Wahnotee. Scud. George. If I was to try, I'd bust. Were they all born on this estate? Make an argument for each side of the slavery argument here, analyzing how the play could be read as both anti- and pro-slavery. [Fire seen,R.]. Just because my grandfather wasn't some broken-down Virginia transplant, or a stingy old Creole, I ain't fit to sit down with the same meat with them. That Indian is a nuisance. Zoe, if all I possess would buy your freedom, I would gladly give it. He confesses it; the Indian got drunk, quarreled with him, and killed him. [Smiling.] How the flames crack. I will, quicker than lightning. George, you know not what you say. Says he'll go if I'll go with him. black as nigger; clar as ice. What, you won't, won't ye? Of course not, you little fool; no one ever made love to you, and you can't understand; I mean, that George knows I am an heiress; my fortune would release this estate from debt. I don't know when my time on earth will be up; but I DO know that today, I am one day closer. She didn't mind how kind old judge was to her; and Solon, too, he'll holler, and break de ole lady's heart. Hold on a bit. There's one name on the list of slaves scratched, I see. Dido. I wish he would make love to me. look sar! Dat you drink is fust rate for red fever. Was dat?---a cry out dar in de swamp---dar agin! But for Heaven's sake go---here comes the crowd. Thib. Dear Dora, try to understand it with your heart. Zoe. In a few hours that man, my master, will come for me; he has paid my price, and he only consented to let me remain here this one night, because Mrs. Peyton promised to give me up to him to-day. Scud. Scud. Back at Terrebonne, Zoe returns but with a sad heart, as she knows that she and George can never be together. Scud. He didn't ought to bid against a lady. Zoe. Point. [M'Closky*strikes him on the head---he falls dead.*]. Pete. 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.
Sunny. that's right. he's allers in for it. [*Seeing*Dora.] Why, Minnie, why don't you run when you hear, you lazy crittur? Hold on! Scud. Scud. I listen dar jess now---dar was ole lady cryin'---Mas'r George---ah! George. [SeesPete,*who has set his pail down*L. C.up stage, and goes to sleep on it.] Happy to read and share the best inspirational Boucicault The Octoroon quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes. [R. C.] That's my son---buy him, Mas'r Ratts; he's sure to sarve you well. Zoe. Ya!---as he? We are always in a perpetual state of being created and creating ourselves. What in thunder should I do with you and those devils on board my boat? But out it flew, free for everybody or anybody to beg, borrow, or steal. 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. Enjoy reading and share 1 famous quotes about The Octoroonwith everyone. See Injiun; look dar [shows him plate], see dat innocent: look, dar's de murderer of poor Paul. Mrs. Pey. how can you say so? How are we sure the boy is dead at all? This old nigger, the grandfather of the boy you murdered, speaks for you---don't that go through you? I love one who is here, and he loves me---George. I see my little Nimrod yonder, with his Indian companion. Point. Ah! You called it yourself; you wanted to make us murder that Injiun; and since we've got our hands in for justice, we'll try it on you. Because I heard that you had traduced my character. Well, he gone dar hisself; why, I tink so---'cause we missed Paul for some days, but nebber tout nothin' till one night dat Injiun Wahnotee suddenly stood right dar 'mongst us---was in his war paint, and mighty cold and grave---he sit down by de fire. A draft for eighty-five thousand dollars, and credit on Palisse and Co., of New Orleans, for the balance. George. [Enters inner room,R.U.E.]. To Jacob M'Closky, the Octoroon girl, Zoe, twenty-five thousand dollars. Pete. she would revolt from it, as all but you would; and if I consented to hear the cries of my heart, if I did not crush out my infant love, what would she say to the poor girl on whom she had bestowed so much? Scud. Lafouche. O, let all go, but save them! Scud. [Outside,R.U.E.] Dis way---dis way. Zoe. [He is borne off in boat, struggling. No, it ain't; because, just then, what does the judge do, but hire another overseer---a Yankee---a Yankee named Salem Scudder. Mrs. P.Zoe, dear, I'm glad to see you more calm this morning. Stealing a lantern, he sets fire to the steamship that had the slaves on board. [On sofa,C.] George---where---where---, Zoe. Come, Miss Dora, let me offer you my arm. Come, form a court then, choose a jury---we'll fix this varmin. Gosh, wouldn't I like to hab myself took! 2, the yellow girl Grace, with two children---Saul, aged four, and Victoria five." [Putting it on the table,R. C.]. Why, I was dreaming---curse it! No, it won't; we have confessed to Dora that we love each other. By fair means I don't think you can get her, and don't you try foul with her, 'cause if you do, Jacob, civilization be darned. | Privacy Policy Here! Now, my culled brethren, gird up your lines, and listen---hold on yer bref---it's a comin. Zoe, they shall not take you from us while I live. Well, ma'am, I spose there's no law agin my bidding for it. [Wahnotee*sits*L.,rolled in blanket.]. there again!---no; it was only the wind over the canes. That's right. I will take the best room in the Grand Central or the Orndorff Hotel. Scud. Paul. New York, NY, Ages 12-17: Camp Broadway Ensemble @ Carnegie Hall
When the ship's abroad on the ocean, when the army is before the enemy where in thunder's the law? [Laughs.]. Poor fellow, he has lost all. Important Quotes. As my wife,---the sharer of my hopes, my ambitions, and my sorrows; under the shelter of your love I could watch the storms of fortune pass unheeded by. burn! 'Cos I's skeered to try! M'Closky. Paul! Could you see the roots of my hair you would see the same dark, fatal mark. I shrunk from it and fled. [Laughing.] So we believe; and so mad are the folks around, if they catch the red-skin they'll lynch him sure. 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---. Paul. The Octoroon's Sacrifice (1912) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. 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. Mrs. P.Read, George. I'll see you round the estate. Ask the color in your face; d'ye think I can't read you, like a book? Come, Mrs. Peyton, take my arm. [*ExitScudderand*Mrs. Peyton,R.U.E. George. I fetch as much as any odder cook in Louisiana. [Knocks.] M'Closky. I've got hold of the tail of a rat---come out. [To the men.] Paul. M'Closky. | Sitemap |. No, sar; but dem vagabonds neber take de 'specable straight road, dey goes by de swamp. Scud. Dido. O! "No. If he would only propose to marry me I would accept him, but he don't know that, and he will go on fooling, in his slow European way, until it is too late. Scud. EnterScudder, George, Ratts, Caillou, Pete, Grace, Minnie,and all theNegroes. Improvements---anything, from a stay-lace to a fire-engine. Minnie (a Quadroon Slave) Miss Walters. D'ye call running away from a fellow catching him? No; but I loved you so, I could not bear my fate; and then I stood your heart and hers. [M'Closky*lowers his hand. [Tumbles upon the table.]. Zoe. M'Closky. Salem's looking a kinder hollowed out. Scud. I won't go on; that man's down. Ratts. Frank Capra, If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development. Now, take care what you do. Mrs. P.George, you are incorrigible. Tableaux.*. [Looks through camera] O, golly! George. *Enter*Wahnotee,R.;they are all about to rush on him. "The free papers of my daughter, Zoe, registered February 4th, 1841." 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. [R.] Then why don't you buy it yourself, Colonel? Save me---save me! Scud. Coventry Patmore, if a man has no stability when you meet him, you may want to stay clear of him. That's enough. Good morning, Mrs. Peyton. Only three of his plays were to have an American setting, The Octoroon is one of these. You begged me to call this morning. Hush! All. Take your hand down---take it down. [L.] Let the old darkey alone---eight hundred for that boy. Then, if they go, they'll take Zoe---she'll follow them. They are gone!---[*Glancing at*George.] Zoe. Ah! Mr. George, I am afraid, if all we hear is true, you have led a dreadful life in Europe. Scud. George. [*To*Zoe.] Point. [Astonished.] George. Sunny. 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. How would you like to rule the house of the richest planter on Atchafalaya---eh? I hope I'm not intruding. if you cannot be mine, O, let me not blush when I think of you. Make bacon of me, you young whelp. [*Goes*L.] Paul reste el! Jackson. You've made me cry, then, and I hate you both! ], Scud. O! You know you can't be jealous of a poor creature like me. Scud. George. I would be alone a little while. EnterPaul,R.U.E.,withIndian,who goes up. One thousand bid. [Wahnotee*rushes on, and at*M'Closky,L.H.]. Excuse me, I'll light a cigar. O, Zoe, my child! M'Closky. Bless'ee, Missey Zoe, here it be. Now, ma'am, I'd like a little business, if agreeable. Race or not, it's a story about . So! If you haven't spoiled her, I fear I have. Zoe, he's going; I want him to stay and make love to me that's what I came for to-day. [Knocks.] Judy Collins, You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music." If I must die, give me up to the law; but save me from the tomahawk. Paul. You! | About Us Keep quiet, and let's talk sense. How came they in your possession? Why don't you speak, sir? Zoe, you have suspected the feeling that now commands an utterance---you have seen that I love you. Take my shawl, Zoe. Scud. TheNegromounts the table from behind*C.The Company sit. Lafouche. Jodie Sweetin, Come down and eat chicken with me beautiful. That judgment still exists; under it and others this estate is sold to-day. Dido. Ratts. Zoe, must we immolate our lives on her prejudice? [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. Ratts. You will not give me to that man? this infernal letter would have saved all. Wood up thar, you Polio---hang on to the safety valve---guess she'll crawl off on her paddles. George, do you see that hand you hold? Whar's Paul, Wahnotee? Dora. Daisaku Ikeda Culture is like the current of the ocean. ha---git out! [Searching him.] Your own Zoe, that loves you, aunty, so much, so much.---[Gets phial.] Laws, mussey! *Re-enter*Lafouche,R.,with smashed apparatus. Jacob M'Closky, you shan't have that girl. Pete. Point. Brightness will return amongst you. Zoe is your child by a quadroon slave, and you didn't free her; blood! Zoe. "No. You are right, sir; though I shrank from expressing that opinion in her presence, so bluntly. O! [*Points down, and shows by pantomime how he buried*Paul.]. Zoe. O, how d'ye do, sir? Ratts. The men accuse Wahnotee of the murder, and McClosky calls for him to be lynched. This is folly, Dora. So it is. [Aside.] 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. [Shows plate. Research Playwrights, Librettists, Composers and Lyricists. he must not see me. Scud. What, Mr. Ratts, are you going to invest in swamps? Darn it, when I see a woman in trouble, I feel like selling the skin off my back. Why, judge, wasn't you lawyer enough to know that while a judgment stood against you it was a lien on your slaves? O, aunt! Mrs. Claiborne Miss Clinton. No; Wahnotee is a gentle, honest creature, and remains here because he loves that boy with the tenderness of a woman. I'm on you like a painter, and when I'm drawed out I'm pizin. Aunt, I am prouder and happier to be your nephew and heir to the ruins of Terrebonne, than I would have been to have had half Louisiana without you. Scud. [Speaking in his ear-trumpet.] I'll clear him off there---he'll never know what stunned him. What court of law would receive such evidence? George reluctantly agrees. [Pete holds lantern up.] Why, Dora, what's the matter? Has not my dear aunt forgotten it---she who had the most right to remember it? [*Exit*Thibodeaux, Sunnyside, Ratts, Pointdexter, Grace, Jackson, Lafouche, Caillou, Solon,R.U.E. Scud. Farewell, Dora. You got four of dem dishes ready. "A fine, well-built old family mansion, replete with every comfort.". [Sitting,R. C.] A pretty mess you've got this estate in---. I'd be darned glad if somebody would tear my past life away from me. Glendon Swarthout, Never believe in any faith younger than you are." Pete. The Oxford English Dictionary cites The Octoroon with the earliest record of the word "mashup" with the quote: "He don't understand; he speaks a mash up of Indian, French, and Mexican." [Seizing a fly whisk.] Paul. No; like a sugar cane; so dry outside, one would never think there was so much sweetness within. I know you'll excuse it. Dat wakes him up. M'Closky. Ah! You love George; you love him dearly; I know it: and you deserve to be loved by him. Your birth---I know it. Pete. Paul. Here's the Picayune [producing paper] with the advertisement. Yes! I'll take back my bid, Colonel. See also [Returning with rifle.] Ah. Liverpool post mark. [During the dialogueWahnoteehas takenGeorge'sgun. That part of it all is performance for the media. Pete. Where is Mr. Scudder? George. Pete. I hate 'em. Lynch him! The judge didn't understand accounts---the overseer did. [Draws revolver.] Darn his copper carcass, I've got a set of Irish deck-hands aboard that just loved that child; and after I tell them this, let them get a sight of the red-skin, I believe they would eat him, tomahawk and all. [Throws down apron.] Point. Evidence! Sunny. Author: Dahlia Lithwick. 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. Ugh! [Conceals himself.]. What a find! 'An Octoroon' was written over about three years but premiered in 2014. Yes, for you, for me, for dem little ones, dem folks cried. 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. Point. Point. I will take the best room in the Grand Central or the Orndorff Hotel. [R. C.] Pardon me, madam, but do you know these papers? Now it's cooking, laws mussey, I feel it all inside, as if it was at a lottery. Scud. [Rushes onM'Closky---M'Closkydraws his knife.]. hark! Point. Never mind. 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. M'Closky. Come, Zoe, don't be a fool; I'd marry you if I could, but you know I can't; so just say what you want. Scudder insists that they hold a trial, and the men search for evidence. Mrs. P.Yes, there is a hope left yet, and I cling to it. Alas! Zoe. Pete, you old turkey-buzzard, saddle my mare. Irish - Dramatist December 26, 1822 - September 18, 1890. You seem already familiar with the names of every spot on the estate. Mrs. P.Poor child! Come, then, but if I catch you drinkin', O, laws a mussey, you'll get snakes! George. We have known each other but a few days, but to me those days have been worth all the rest of my life. They do not notice Zoe.---[Aloud.] [DrivesChildrenaway; in escaping they tumble against and trip upSolon,who falls with tray; theChildrensteal the bananas and rolls that fall about.]. Bah! Pete. Last night I overheard you weeping in your room, and you said, "I'd rather see her dead than so! ], [Gets in canoe and rows off,L.---Wahnotee*paddles canoe on,*R.---gets out and finds trail---paddles off after him,L.]. M'Closky. George. M'Closky. there's that noise again! Fifteen thousand bid for the Octoroon. You can protect me from that man---do let me die without pain. O, here he is. Wal, as it consarns you, perhaps you better had. Paul. Scud. The men begin to call for McClosky to be lynched, but Scudder convinces them to send him to jail instead. Hark! Mrs. P.My dear George, you are left in your uncle's will heir to this estate. Join StageAgent today and unlock amazing theatre resources and opportunities. Even a letter, promising something---such is the feeling round amongst the planters. there it comes---it comes---don't you hear a footstep on the dry leaves? Be the first to contribute! Dora. [Sits,R. C.]. I left my loves and my creditors equally inconsolable. Yes---me and Co.---we done it; but, as you were senior partner in the concern, I reckon you got the big lick. Grace. [Music. [A pause.] Dora. You're trembling so, you'll fall down directly. Sorry I can't help you, but the fact is, you're in such an all-fired mess that you couldn't be pulled out without a derrick. tink anybody wants you to cry? You are a white man; you'll not leave one of your own blood to be butchered by the red-skin? Let me be sold then, that I may free his name. | Contact Us He's yours, Mr. George Peyton. Zoe. O, that's it, is it? Dion Boucicault Quotes - BrainyQuote. Debbel's in de pail! 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. Solon. Hold on, you'll see. he tinks it's a gun. 'Tis true! you stan' dar, I see you Ta demine usti. I shall see this estate pass from me without a sigh, for it possesses no charm for me; the wealth I covet is the love of those around me---eyes that are rich in fond looks, lips that breathe endearing words; the only estate I value is the heart of one true woman, and the slaves I'd have are her thoughts. Seeking 2 Actor Team for Spring
is this true?---no, it ain't---darn it, say it ain't. Paul. who has been teasing you? What, on Terrebonne? Sunny. My love? The Injiun means that he buried him there! [George*tries to regain his gun;Wahnoteerefuses to give it up;Paul,quietly takes it from him and remonstrates with him.*]. Ratts. George. two forms! George. Scud. I say, Zoe, do you hear that? The Octoroon (1913) - Quotes - IMDb Menu Edit The Octoroon (1913) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. Zoe. They have realized that Paul is missing, and most believe him dead. Where's that man from Mobile that wanted to give one hundred and eighty thousand? He said so---then I rose up, and stole from the house, and ran down to the bayou; but its cold, black, silent stream terrified me---drowning must be so horrible a death. 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. He loves Zoe, and has found out that she loves him. He and Zoe admit to their love of each other; a heartbroken Dora leaves. Scud. "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---. Paul has promised me a bear and a deer or two. I'll bear it. Say, Mas'r Scudder, take me in dat telescope? [Knocks.] The proof is here, in my heart. Squire Sunnyside, you've got a pretty bit o' land, Squire. O, forgive him and me! Zoe. That's just what you must do, and do it at once, or it will be too late. Stand around and let me pass---room thar! Scud. 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