Sunny. You're a man as well as an auctioneer, ain't ye? [*Goes*L.] Paul reste el! if you cannot be mine, O, let me not blush when I think of you. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. George. Ain't he! Why, Minnie, why don't you run when you hear, you lazy crittur? Mrs. P.I cannot find the entry in my husband's accounts; but you, Mr. M'Closky, can doubtless detect it. No---no. Twelve thousand. Paul! Stop, Zoe; come here! Zoe. Now, my culled brethren, gird up your lines, and listen---hold on yer bref---it's a comin. M'Closky. Missey Zoe! Sharon Gannon. faded---is it not? E.---Wahnoteefaces him.---Fight---buss. George reluctantly agrees. [*Seeing*Dora.] this infernal letter would have saved all. If there is no bid for the estate and stuff, we'll sell it in smaller lots. No. Now's your time, sar. Ain't that a cure for old age; it kinder lifts the heart up, don't it? I'm on you like a painter, and when I'm drawed out I'm pizin. The apparatus can't mistake. Ratts. I'll trouble you for that piece of baccy, Judge---thank you---so, gentlemen, as life is short, we'll start right off. M'Closky. If you bid me do so I will obey you---. Because I heard that you had traduced my character. I don't know; she may as well hear the hull of it. Now's your time.---[Aloud.] Scud. You ign'ant Injiun, it can't hurt you! The first mortgagee bids forty thousand dollars. [Aside.] George, George, your words take away my breath! Hush! 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. EnterLafoucheand*Jackson,L. Jackson. [Inside room.] My home, my home! hark! Zoe, he's going; I want him to stay and make love to me that's what I came for to-day. Author: Dahlia Lithwick. 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. He don't understand; he speaks a mash-up of Indian and Mexican. George. Hugh vieu. [Enters inner room,R.U.E.]. So it went, till one day the judge found the tap wouldn't run. George. Give us evidence. She nebber was 'worth much 'a dat nigger. Their presence keeps alive the reproach against me that I ruined them; yet, if this money should come. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart. M'Closky hates Scudder in return, especially because they both love Zoe, Mr. Peyton's "octoroon" daughter, Zoe. Scud. George. I'm writing about America's relationship to its own history. O, my husband! Zoe!---she faints! If she could not accept me, who could? 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? EnterSolon*andDidowith coffee-pot, dishes, &c.,*R.U.E. Dido. Between us we've ruined these Peytons; you fired the judge, and I finished off the widow. George. Boucicault adapted the play from the novel The Quadroon by Thomas Mayne Reid (1856). Mrs. P.So, Pete, you are spoiling those children as usual! [Going.]. Zoe. Seeking 2 Actor Team for Spring my life, my happy life; why has it been so bright? Scud. I always said you were the darndest thief that ever escaped a white jail to misrepresent the North to the South. Hillo! M'Closky. Zoe. I don't know when my time on earth will be up; but I DO know that today, I am one day closer. Excuse me, I'll light a cigar. Liverpool post mark. Do you want me to stop here and bid for it? Paul. Dido. What's here? [Draws revolver.] 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. Scud. Why you speak so wild? Ha! Dora. Point. tink anybody wants you to cry? [Music. And our mother, she who from infancy treated me with such fondness, she who, as you said, had most reason to spurn me, can she forget what I am? Hush! And we all got rich from it, so, you know, there's a benefit from it. It carried that easy on mortgage. Wahnotee? Pete. It is an adaptation of Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon , which premiered in 1859. *EnterPete, Pointdexter, Jackson, Lafouche,and*Caillou,R.U.E. Pete. war's de crowd gone? M'Closky. Zoe, you are young; your mirror must have told you that you are beautiful. I shall knock it down to the Squire---going---gone---for one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. ", Pete. You wanted to come to an understanding, and I'm coming thar as quick as I can. 4, the Octoroon girl, Zoe.". Scud. Scud. Good day, Mr. Thibodeaux---shall we drive down that way? George. How the flames crack. 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? Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. [Shouts heard,R.]. Mas'r Ratts, you hard him sing about de place where de good niggers go, de last time. Zoe, bring here the judge's old desk; it is in the library. He can fight though he's a painter; claws all over. She said, "It's free with purchase." The house of Mason Brothers, of Liverpool, failed some twenty years ago in my husband's debt. Take your hand down---take it down. M'Closky. His love for me will pass away---it shall. Ratts. Sign up today to unlock amazing theatre resources and opportunities. PART ONE: The estate of Terrebonne, in Louisiana, had been heavily mortgaged by the owner, Judge Payton, who, when he died, left the estate to his brother's widow and her son George, making Mrs. Peyton the guardian of Zoe, his natural daughter by a quadroon. The Octoroon is a play by Dion Boucicault that opened in 1859 at The Winter Garden Theatre, New York City. Now, gentlemen, we shall proceed to business. Yonder the boy still lurks with those mail-bags; the devil still keeps him here to tempt me, darn his yellow skin. Mrs. P.Yes, there is a hope left yet, and I cling to it. Peyton.] He and Zoe admit to their love of each other; a heartbroken Dora leaves. Ratts. O, how d'ye do, sir? Well, what d'ye say, Lafouche---d'ye smile? Stealing a lantern, he sets fire to the steamship that had the slaves on board. M'Closky. M'Closky. I will! Pete. If he caught the fever, were stung by a snake, or possessed of any other poisonous or unclean thing, you could pity, tend, love him through it, and for your gentle care he would love you in return. Scud. M'Closky. You told me it produced a long, long sleep. McClosky desires Zoe for himself, and when she rejects his proposition, he plots to have her sold with the rest of the slaves, for he knows that she is an octoroon and is legally part of the Terrebonne property. Impossible; you have seen no one; whom can you mean? Pete. See, I'm calm. Ya! You may drink dat, Mas'r George. Boucicaults The Octoroon famous quotes & sayings: Ivan Glasenberg: We work. The proof is here, in my heart. George. 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. Dido. I guess he ain't left home yet, Colonel. You see how easily I have become reconciled to my fate---so it will be with you. [Calls off.] can you smile at this moment? For a year or two all went fine. I know you'll excuse it. [Eagerly.] George. Well, that has come out clear, ain't it? George. you seen dem big tears in his eyes. Brightness will return amongst you. See also Trivia | Goofs | Crazy Credits | Alternate Versions | Connections | Soundtracks Did You Know? Gentlemen, the sale takes place at three. 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. I will! Top, sar! yar, you Wahnotee! M'Closky. Mrs. P.But it may be years yet before it will be paid off, if ever. And, strangers, ain't we forgetting there's a lady present. I won't strike him, even with words. D'ye feel it? Guess that you didn't leave anything female in Europe that can lift an eyelash beside that gal. You are a white man; you'll not leave one of your own blood to be butchered by the red-skin? But for Heaven's sake go---here comes the crowd. Not a bale. Scud. Well---I didn't mean to kill him, did I? Dora. You don't come here to take life easy. Why, with principal and interest this debt has been more than doubled in twenty years. Pete. Paul. Yes, we do, ma'am; it's in a darned bad condition. [All salute.]. "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." I shall do so if you weep. M'Closky. I want Pete here a minute. [Aside to Pete.] burn! Boucicault The Octoroon Quotes & Sayings. Omnes. Look dar! 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. Zoe. thank you. [Pete holds lantern up.] *], [Light fires.---Draw flats and discoverPaul'sgrave.---M'Closky*dead on top of it.---Wahnoteestanding triumphantly over him.*]. [Georgepours contents of phial in glass. Born here---dem darkies? In some form, human, or wild beast, or ghost, it has tracked me through the night. But dis ain't all. [He is borne off in boat, struggling. Pete. Scud. Jackson. he tinks it's a gun. George, you know not what you say. have I fixed ye? now mind. Poor Injiun lub our little Paul. What, Mr. Ratts, are you going to invest in swamps? Den say de missus, "'Tain't for de land I keer, but for dem poor niggars---dey'll be sold---dat wot stagger me." George goes to Dora and begins to propose to her; while he is doing so, however, he has a change of heart and decides not to lie to her. Job had none of them critters on his plantation, else he'd never ha' stood through so many chapters. Despite the happiness Zoe stands dying and the play ends with her death on the sitting-room couch and George kneeling beside her. There is a gulf between us, as wide as your love, as deep as my despair; but, O, tell me, say you will pity me! [R.U.E.] I was raised on dis yar plantation---neber see no door in it---always open, sar, for stranger to walk in. We'll hire out our slaves, and live on their wages. D'ye hear that, Jacob? Mrs. P.Hospitality in Europe is a courtesy; here, it is an obligation. [Aside.] Paul. Beat that any of ye. Good morning, Mrs. Peyton. Work! darn his carcass! why don't you do it? An Octoroon is a play written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. | About Us Mas'r George---ah, no, sar---don't buy me---keep your money for some udder dat is to be sold. No---no. O, my father! She didn't mind how kind old judge was to her; and Solon, too, he'll holler, and break de ole lady's heart. Mrs. Pey. Pete. No; a weakness, that's all---a little water. What, on Terrebonne? M'Closky. Mrs. P.Read, George. What's the matter, Ratts? Pete. I am his love---he loves an Octoroon. M'Closky. No, I hesitated because an attachment I had formed before I had the pleasure of seeing you had not altogether died out. Down with him! Zoe. Isn't he sweet! if this is so, she's mine! Why, judge, wasn't you lawyer enough to know that while a judgment stood against you it was a lien on your slaves? The more bidders, the better for you. Zoe. 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. Scud. Paul. Evidence! You see dat hole in dar, sar. She refuses, but Zoe steals the bottle from her anyway and runs off. I'm 'most afraid to take Wahnotee to the shed, there's rum there. O! Zoe, will you remain here? Look in my eyes; is not the same color in the white? 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. I shall never understand how to wound the feelings of any lady; and, if that is the custom here, I shall never acquire it. We are catching fire forward; quick, set free from the shore. Jacob, your accuser is that picter of the crime---let that speak---defend yourself. George. I'll take back my bid, Colonel. Denora Boone, Everybody who went to Vietnam carries his or her own version of the war. I saw the mail-bags lying in the shed this morning. Wal, as it consarns you, perhaps you better had. Since this letter would allow Mrs. Peyton to avoid selling Terrebonne, McClosky kills Paul and takes the letter. See also Come, Miss Dora, let me offer you my arm. Scud. Scud. Well, near on five hundred dollars. I shrunk from it and fled. Dat you drink is fust rate for red fever. 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. Go on, Colonel---Colonel Pointdexter, ma'am---the mortgagee, auctioneer, and general agent. since you arrived! If Omenee remain, Wahnotee will die in Terrebonne. That judgment still exists; under it and others this estate is sold to-day. O, that's it, is it? Will you hush? Stan' back, boys! Mr. Peyton! George. DORA played by a white actress or an actress who can pass as white. With your New England hypocrisy, you would persuade yourself it was this family alone you cared for; it ain't---you know it ain't---'tis the "Octoroon;" and you love her as I do; and you hate me because I'm your rival---that's where the tears come from, Salem Scudder, if you ever shed any---that's where the shoe pinches. Jackson, I want to get to Ophelensis to-night. They do not notice Zoe.---[Aloud.] 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. "Ma'am, your nose drawed it. What, sar? But don't mount to nuffin---kin work cannel. Ratts. EnterPete,with lantern, andScudder,with note book,R. Scud. Pete. Come, cheer up, old friend. Irish - Dramatist December 26, 1822 - September 18, 1890. The men begin to call for McClosky to be lynched, but Scudder convinces them to send him to jail instead. Never, aunt! [falls on her knees, with her face in her hands] no---no master, but one. Deep songs don't come from the surface; they come from the deep down. | About Us Yah! this is worth taking to---in this desk the judge used to keep one paper I want---this should be it. Zoe, tell Pete to give my mare a feed, will ye? [*Seizes whip, and holds*Paul. George says he can "overcome the obstacle" (43), but Zoe protests that they cannot be together. E. Paul. My darling! She's won this race agin the white, anyhow; it's too late now to start her pedigree. | Contact Us What, sar! [*Takes Indian's tomahawk and steals to*Paul. [*Takes fan from*Minnie.] [Outside,R.U.E.] Dis way---dis way. Consarn those Liverpool English fellers, why couldn't they send something by the last mail? Where am I to get it? Zoe. [Pete goes down.] I think so; shall I ask him that too? He stood gazing in wonder at her work-basket as if it was something extraordinary. 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. Zoe. This old nigger, the grandfather of the boy you murdered, speaks for you---don't that go through you? The men accuse Wahnotee of the murder, and McClosky calls for him to be lynched. Scud. [Re-enters from boat.] Mrs. P.Sellyourself, George! No; the hitching line was cut with a knife. Scud. Dora. What? George. Scud. M'Closky. Enjoy reading and share 7 famous quotes about Boucicault The Octoroon with everyone. Mrs. Peyton, George Peyton, Terrebonne is yours. Scud. Race or not, it's a story about . Let me hide them till I teach my heart. Look there, jurymen. [Knocks.] Some of those sirens of Paris, I presume, [Pause.] [Re-enters with phial.] Go outside, there; listen to what you hear, then go down to the quarters and tell the boys, for I can't do it. 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. Scud. top till I get enough of you in one place! Zoe. To Jacob M'Closky, the Octoroon girl, Zoe, twenty-five thousand dollars. Is this a dream---for my brain reels with the blow? Sunny. Zoe. Aunt, when he died, two years ago, I read over those letters of his, and if I didn't cry like a baby---. What's the law? Scud. The Octoroon: The Story of the Turpentine Forest (1909) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. George. 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. Ah! I'm waiting on your fifty thousand bid. Sunnyside, Pointdexter, Jackson, Peyton; here it is---the Liverpool post-mark, sure enough!---[Opens letter---reads.] Pete. good, good nurse: you will, you will. Where's that man from Mobile that wanted to give one hundred and eighty thousand? It is such scenes as these that bring disgrace upon our Western life. Come here quite; now quite. Were they all born on this estate? Lafouche. Dora. Scud. While the proceeds of this sale promises to realize less than the debts upon it, it is my duty to prevent any collusion for the depreciation of the property. Dear Dora, try to understand it with your heart. I won't hear a word! save me! What was her past? Jodie Sweetin, Come down and eat chicken with me beautiful. 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. Pete. Paying the iron price. Scud. [Makes sign thatPaulwas killed by a blow on the head.]. Come along; she har what we say, and she's cryin' for us. "Whar's Paul?" Zoe, you have suspected the feeling that now commands an utterance---you have seen that I love you. He is said to have "combined sentiment, wit and local colour with sensational and spectacular endings" (Nova). I mean that before you could draw that bowie-knife, you wear down your back, I'd cut you into shingles. Dora. No; not you---George. It wants an hour yet to daylight---here is Pete's hut---[Knocks.] You gib me rattan, Mas'r Clostry, but I guess you take a berry long stick to Wahnotee; ugh, he make bacon of you. Come, Paul, are you ready? M'Closky. I ain't no count, sar. It's near that now, and there's still the sugar-houses to be inspected. Wahnotee tracks him down and confronts him; in the ensuing struggle, Wahnotee kills McClosky. but the deed that freed you was not lawful. [Outside,R.] Whar's Missus---whar's Mas'r George? ], Scud. M'Closky. Mr. Scudder, good morning. If young George Peyton was to make you the same offer, you'd jump at it, pretty darned quick, I guess. But now that vagrant love is---eh? Dion Boucicault. I listen dar jess now---dar was ole lady cryin'---Mas'r George---ah! Yes---me and Co.---we done it; but, as you were senior partner in the concern, I reckon you got the big lick. Ha, ha! 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. [A pause.] he is here. But what do we pay for that possession? Zoe. [Rushes onM'Closky---M'Closkydraws his knife.]. I could not do it. Scud. 2, the yellow girl Grace, with two children---Saul, aged four, and Victoria five." Zoe. 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. No, no! Where did she live and what sort of life did she lead? It is certain, madam; the judge was negligent, and doubtless forgot this small formality. What! George. Scud. The word Octoroon signifies "one-eighth blood" or the child of a Quadroon by a white. Scud. George. Work, Zoe, is the salt that gives savor to life. Come, Mrs. Peyton, take my arm. they call it the Yankee hugging the Creole. Bless his dear old handwriting, it's all I ever saw of him. Mrs. P.Wahnotee, will you go back to your people? Point. You know you can't be jealous of a poor creature like me. Mrs. P.[Embracing him.] Be the first to contribute! Well, sir, what does this Scudder do but introduces his inventions and improvements on this estate. Lynch him! forgive your poor child. [Reads.] It's soooo dark. I hope we don't intrude on the family. Hold on a bit, I get you de bottle. "No. [Stands with his hand extended towards the house, and tableau.]. [Aside,C.] Insolent as usual.---[Aloud.] Ratts. The Octoroon (1912) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. Point. ", Zoe. George. he does not know, he does not know! McClosky has proved that Judge Peyton did not succeed in legally freeing her, as he had meant to do. Say, Mas'r Scudder, take me in dat telescope? McClosky intercepts a young slave boy, Paul, who is bringing a mailbag to the house which contains a letter from one of Judge Peyton's old debtors. That's about right. The eye of the Eternal was on you---the blessed sun in heaven, that, looking down, struck upon this plate the image of the deed. The Injiun means that he buried him there! This New York Times article cautions its readers against jumping to conclusions about Boucicault's intentions in the writing of the play and downplays . Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. Then I'd like to hire a lady to go to auction and buy my hands. I thank Heaven you have not lived to see this day. dem darkies! you bomn'ble fry---git out---a gen'leman can't pass for you. Pete. Mrs. P.Terrebonne for sale, and you, sir, will doubtless become its purchaser. 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? Salem's looking a kinder hollowed out. A julep, gal, that's my breakfast, and a bit of cheese. Dora! O, Miss Zoe, why you ask ole Dido for dis pizen? Go on, Colonel. What more d'ye want---ain't that proof enough? O, Zoe! Here's the Picayune [producing paper] with the advertisement. George. Lafouche. Pete. 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