Hole yer tongue, Dido. I will, quicker than lightning. Ain't you took them bags to the house yet? Then buy the hands along with the property. [Astonished.] But the creditors will not claim the gal? All Rights Reserved. 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. [They approach again.]. Zoe. M'Closky. I am his love---he loves an Octoroon. Now, Mr. George, between the two overseers, you and that good old lady have come to the ground; that is the state of things, just as near as I can fix it. He sleeps---no; I see a light. Scud. M'Closky. Sunny. the rat's out. I don't care, they were blue this morning, but it don't signify now. It wants an hour yet to daylight---here is Pete's hut---[Knocks.] Fire!---one, two, three. Who's you to set up screching?---be quiet! It carried that easy on mortgage. 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. Lafouche. Hole yer tongues. Here's a pictur' for a civilized community to afford; yonder, a poor, ignorant savage, and round him a circle of hearts, white with revenge and hate, thirsting for his blood; you call yourselves judges---you ain't---you're a jury of executioners. George. Dora. George. Is it on such evidence you'd hang a human being? Pete. Let me proceed by illustration. She refuses, but Zoe steals the bottle from her anyway and runs off. I was up before daylight. dead---and above him---Ah! George. At the time the judge executed those free papers to his infant slave, a judgment stood recorded against him; while that was on record he had no right to make away with his property. Judy Collins, You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music." What's this, eh? No, sar; nigger nebber cut stick on Terrebonne; dat boy's dead, sure. black as nigger; clar as ice. Sunny. Why don't he speak?---I mean, you feared I might not give you credit for sincere and pure feelings. | About Us Pete. Top Boucicault The Octoroon Quotes. Pete. M'Closky. Go on, Colonel. Zoe. Mrs. P. If you want a quarrel---. I thought I heard the sound of a paddle in the water. [2] Among antebellum melodramas, it was considered second in popularity only to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852).[3]. Yonder is the boy---now is my time! [Sighing.] [*Exit*Thibodeaux, Sunnyside, Ratts, Pointdexter, Grace, Jackson, Lafouche, Caillou, Solon,R.U.E. Scud. Well, then, what has my all-cowardly heart got to skeer me so for? Hey! ExitScudderandPete,R.1. "No, ma'am, the truth seldom is.". Scud. Dido. M'Closky. M'Closky. Yes, ma'am, I hold a mortgage over Terrebonne; mine's a ninth, and pretty near covers all the property, except the slaves. Dora. I must be going---it is late. M'Closky. Well, ma'am, I spose there's no law agin my bidding for it. For a year or two all went fine. The house of Mason Brothers, of Liverpool, failed some twenty years ago in my husband's debt. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. Paul's best friend, the Indian Wahnotee, discovers Paul's body; he can speak only poor English, however, and is unable to communicate the tragedy to anyone else. Tousand dollars, Massa Thibodeaux. I will! . Whoever said so lied. His love for me will pass away---it shall. I say, Zoe, do you hear that? George. He who can love so well is honest---don't speak ill of poor Wahnotee. Every word of it, Squire. He and his apparatus arrived here, took the judge's likeness and his fancy, who made him overseer right off. [Wahnotee*sits*L.,rolled in blanket.]. Born here---dem darkies? I left my loves and my creditors equally inconsolable. Zoe. Point. We work. Scudder. George R R Martin. M'Closky. Yes, we do, ma'am; it's in a darned bad condition. Quotations by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, American Playwright, Born December 29, 1984. Do you know what the niggers round here call that sight? This is folly, Dora. Dora, you are right. Hush! What! then I shall be sold!---sold! I will take the best room in the Grand Central or the Orndorff Hotel. [Sits. Point. Mrs. P.Yes; the firm has recovered itself, and I received a notice two months ago that some settlement might be anticipated. Scud. [R.] Well, what's the use of argument whar guilt sticks out so plain; the boy and Injiun were alone when last seen. Scud. Because I heard that you had traduced my character. Bless his dear old handwriting, it's all I ever saw of him. Gosh, wouldn't I like to hab myself took! Zoe. Sunny. The earth has been stirred here lately. Pete. O, get out. Paul. Ratts. See also Trivia | Goofs | Crazy Credits | Alternate Versions | Connections | Soundtracks Did You Know? the bags are mine---now for it!---[Opens mail-bags.] See also Trivia | Goofs | Crazy Credits | Alternate Versions | Connections | Soundtracks Getting Started | Contributor Zone Sign up today to unlock amazing theatre resources and opportunities. 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. I'll see to that. Ask him, I want to know; don't say I told you to inquire, but find out. And twenty thousand bid. They do not notice Zoe.---[Aloud.] Pete. Stephen King, I have a feeling that demonstrations don't accomplish anything. Paul. If even Asian women saw the men of their own blood as less than other men, what was the use in arguing otherwise? Sunny. You will not give me to that man? Hooraw! We are catching fire forward; quick, set free from the shore. If it was the ghost of that murdered boy haunting me! Take that, and defend yourself. You're trembling so, you'll fall down directly. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. Hello! The Octoroon's Sacrifice (1912) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. M'Closky. D'ye feel it? I shall do so if you weep. Join StageAgent today and unlock amazing theatre resources and opportunities. Hush! I shall knock it down to the Squire---going---gone---for one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Come here quite; now quite. [Exit slowly, as if concealing himself,R.U.E. George. Look dar! You can protect me from that man---do let me die without pain. Deep songs don't come from the surface; they come from the deep down. I'll sweep these Peytons from this section of the country. [Solon goes down and stands behind Ratts.] [Seated,R. C.] Fan me, Minnie.---[Aside.] Scene.---The Wharf, The Steamer "Magnolia" alongside,L.;a bluff rock,R.U.E. Ratts*discovered, superintending the loading of ship. what are you blowing about like a steamboat with one wheel for? Let me hide them till I teach my heart. Hold on, you'll see. what, dem?---get away! Dora. Zoe, you have suspected the feeling that now commands an utterance---you have seen that I love you. Scud. When I am dead she will not be jealous of your love for me, no laws will stand between us. Here she is---Zoe!---water---she faints. Zoe, you are pale. Dat you drink is fust rate for red fever. What, Mr. Ratts, are you going to invest in swamps? Very bad, aunty; and the heart aches worse, so they can get no rest. Ratts. must I learn from these poor wretches how much I owed, how I ought to pay the debt? Fellow-citizens, you are convened and assembled here under a higher power than the law. I saw a small bottle of cologne and asked if it was for sale. George. EnterSolon*andDidowith coffee-pot, dishes, &c.,*R.U.E. Dido. Mr. Lafouche, why, how do you do, sir? No, Pete; no, I won't. Yes, for you, for me, for dem little ones, dem folks cried. Deborah Blake, I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. How came they in your possession? Dis way, gen'l'men; now Solon---Grace---dey's hot and tirsty---sangaree, brandy, rum. He can fight though he's a painter; claws all over. But now that vagrant love is---eh? George, you may without a blush confess your love for the Octoroon! The Steamer floats on at back, burning. Seeking 2 Actor Team for Spring Ya!---as he? The Octoroon Important Quotes 1. Dora. if I had you one by one, alone in the swamp, I'd rip ye all. Get out, you cub! Raits. if this is so, she's mine! [Re-enters from boat.] ], M'Closky. "The free papers of my daughter, Zoe, registered February 4th, 1841." Scud. Zoe. I saw the mail-bags lying in the shed this morning. Pete, speak to the red-skin. "Ma'am," says I, "the apparatus can't mistake." I must see you no more. Wahnotee? [Wahnotee*raises apron and runs off,*L.U.E.Paul*sits for his picture---M'Closkyappears from*R.U.E.]. I think so; shall I ask him that too? That's his programme---here's a pocket-book. If Omenee remain, Wahnotee will die in Terrebonne. [Pours out.] You don't expect to recover any of this old debt, do you? [Shouts heard,R.]. 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. Enjoy reading and share 14 famous quotes about Boucicaults The Octoroon with everyone. Thib. Zoe. Dido. Beat that any of ye. He didn't ought to bid against a lady. For ten years his letters came every quarter-day, with a remittance and a word of advice in his formal cavalier style; and then a joke in the postscript, that upset the dignity of the foregoing. [ToMrs. Dora. [C.] My dear aunt, why do you not move from this painful scene? That's Solon's wife and children, Judge. I felt it---and how she can love! Why, with principal and interest this debt has been more than doubled in twenty years. Traduced! I'm broke, Solon---I can't stop the Judge. George and Zoe reveal their love for each other, but Zoe rejects George's marriage proposal. In some form, human, or wild beast, or ghost, it has tracked me through the night. Thank you, Mas'r Ratts: I die for you, sar; hold up for me, sar. Be calm---darn the things; the proceeds of this sale won't cover the debts of the estate. gib it to ole Pete! It's no use you putting on airs; I ain't gwine to sit up wid you all night and you drunk. It ain't necessary for me to dilate, describe, or enumerate; Terrebonne is known to you as one of the richest bits of sile in Louisiana, and its condition reflects credit on them as had to keep it. For the first time, twenty-five thousand---last time! [Advances.] M'Closky. Scud. Dora. George. 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! Ratts. I deserve to be a nigger this day---I feel like one, inside. You see how easily I have become reconciled to my fate---so it will be with you. To Jacob M'Closky, the Octoroon girl, Zoe, twenty-five thousand dollars. I'll murder this yer crowd, [*He chases*Childrenabout; they leap over railing at back. Hi! 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. Scud. don't think too hardly of your poor father. After various slaves are auctioned off, George and the buyers are shocked to see Zoe up on the stand. You thought you had cornered me, did ye? Dora. The Octoroon (1912) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. A draft for eighty-five thousand dollars, and credit on Palisse and Co., of New Orleans, for the balance. Dam dat Injiun! The Octoroons have no apparent trace of the Negro in their appearance but still are subject to the legal disabilities which attach them to the condition of blacks. [Shows plate to jury.] Top, you varmin! I'd give half the balance of my life to wipe out my part of the work. Just one month ago I quitted Paris. Wood up thar, you Polio---hang on to the safety valve---guess she'll crawl off on her paddles. Yonder the boy still lurks with those mail-bags; the devil still keeps him here to tempt me, darn his yellow skin. I lost them in the cedar swamp---again they haunted my path down the bayou, moving as I moved, resting when I rested---hush! She's won this race agin the white, anyhow; it's too late now to start her pedigree. I'll trouble you for that piece of baccy, Judge---thank you---so, gentlemen, as life is short, we'll start right off. You'se a dead man, Mas'r Clusky---you got to b'lieve dat. There's no chance of it. Zoe, you are young; your mirror must have told you that you are beautiful. Ten miles we've had to walk, because some blamed varmin onhitched our dug-out. I know you'll excuse it. How can she then ask her father to free me? Paying the iron price. M'Closky. Hush! The murder is captured on Scudder's photographic apparatus. Between us we've ruined these Peytons; you fired the judge, and I finished off the widow. Is the prisoner guilty, or is he not guilty? In comparison, a quadroon would have one quarter African ancestry and a mulatto for the most part has historically implied half African ancestry. Ah! O, dear Zoe, is he in love with anybody? Stop! *EnterMrs. PeytonandScudder, M'Closkyand*Pointdexter,R. M'Closky. No; Wahnotee is a gentle, honest creature, and remains here because he loves that boy with the tenderness of a woman. Do you want me to stop here and bid for it? The proof is here, in my heart. Zoe. Look there. Are you ready? Scud. Dora. No---no. [Reading bill.] Go on, Colonel. [Conceals himself.]. Hark! Synopsis. Is this a dream---for my brain reels with the blow? I have come to say good-by, sir; two hard words---so hard, they might break many a heart; mightn't they? Ratts. Pete. Sunnyside, Pointdexter, Jackson, Peyton; here it is---the Liverpool post-mark, sure enough!---[Opens letter---reads.] George. It won't do! I wish he would make love to me. 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. Nothing; but you must learn what I thought you already knew. two forms! Mrs. P.And you hesitated from motives of delicacy? [Draws revolver.] Dora. We're ready; the jury's impanelled---go ahead---who'll be accuser? Here 'tis---now you give one timble-full---dat's nuff. yes, plenty of 'em; bill of costs; account with Citizens' Bank---what's this? Point. Zoe. George---George---hush---they come! Mrs. P.[R.] No, George; your uncle said to me with his dying breath, "Nellie, never leave Terrebonne," and I never will leave it, till the law compels me. ", Zoe. O, none for me; I never eat. [Outside,R.] Whar's Missus---whar's Mas'r George? [ExitPeteand all theNegroes,slowly,R.U.E. *Enter*Zoe[supposed to have overheard the last scene], L.U.E. Zoe. [Who has been looking about the camera.] Scud. M'Closky. No; a weakness, that's all---a little water. See also Hold on, George Peyton---stand back. That part of it all is performance for the media. You'll find him scenting round the rum store, hitched up by the nose. Because it was the truth; and I had rather be a slave with a free soul, than remain free with a slavish, deceitful heart. What's dat? Dora. Scud. Enjoy reading and share 7 famous quotes about Boucicault The Octoroon with everyone. Look! My father gives me freedom---at least he thought so. I'll lend you all you want. See also M'Closky. Poor little Paul---poor little nigger! Zoe. Go on, Pete, you've waked up the Christian here, and the old hoss responds. I've seen it, I tell you; and darn it, ma'am, can't you see that's what's been a hollowing me out so---I beg your pardon. he does not know, he does not know! Ah! You're bidding to separate them, Judge. M'Closky. Listen to me. Be the first to contribute! ah! George. My dear husband never kept any accounts, and we scarcely know in what condition the estate really is. Sunny. Ah. I the sharer of your sorrows---your wife. I didn't know whether they are completely honest. George. 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. Mrs. P.Poor child! Go outside, there; listen to what you hear, then go down to the quarters and tell the boys, for I can't do it. Why don't he return to his nation out West? And, strangers, ain't we forgetting there's a lady present. EnterPaul,R.U.E.,withIndian,who goes up. Aunt, I will take my rifle down to the Atchafalaya. You made her life too happy, and now these tears will be. Why you tremble so? Do you know what I am? [Outside,R.U.E.] Dis way---dis way. [M'Closky*lowers his hand. Dem debils. Yours, &c, James Brown." Mrs. P.No, George; say you wept like a man. save me! Scud. Scud. Ratts. 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! Would you rob me first, and murder me afterwards? or say the word, and I'll buy this old barrack, and you shall be mistress of Terrebonne. When I travelled round with this machine, the homely folks used to sing out, "Hillo, mister, this ain't like me!" Dion Boucicault Quotes - BrainyQuote. 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.". Was dat?---a cry out dar in de swamp---dar agin! [Takes them.] [Rises.] look at these fingers; do you see the nails are of a bluish tinge? It's a good drink to see her come into the cotton fields---the niggers get fresh on the sight of her. Stealing a lantern, he sets fire to the steamship that had the slaves on board. I had but one Master on earth, and he has given me my freedom! How are we sure the boy is dead at all? Mrs. Peyton, George Peyton, Terrebonne is yours. this letter the old lady expects---that's it; let me only head off that letter, and Terrebonne will be sold before they can recover it. Minnie (a Quadroon Slave) Miss Walters. One hundred and forty-nine bales. Do you think they would live here on such terms? George, dear George, do you love me? And dar's de 'paratus---O, gosh, if I could take a likeness ob dis child! Dora. European, I suppose. I bid seven thousand, which is the last dollar this family possesses. I shan't interfere. George. The last word, an important colloquialism, was misread by the typesetter of the play. I wish they could sell me! George. Dido. Dora! I can't introduce any darned improvement there. I never killed a man in my life---and civilization is so strong in me I guess I couldn't do it---I'd like to, though! [Enters house.]. That one black drop of blood burns in her veins and lights up her heart like a foggy sun. Not a picayune. [Shows plate. O, here he is. Ya! Pete. [Dora*gets water.] Mrs. P.Terrebonne for sale, and you, sir, will doubtless become its purchaser. Dora said you were slow; if she could hear you now---. He's an Injiun---fair play. What court of law would receive such evidence? Point. Yes---when I saw him and Miss Zoe galloping through the green sugar crop, and doing ten dollars' worth of damage at every stride, says I, how like his old uncle he do make the dirt fly. [Wakes.] Here! Pete. Jackson. Hee! M'Closky. 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