[Stands with his hand extended towards the house, and tableau.]. Mrs. P.Why, George, I never suspected this! Give us evidence. Zoe. Pete, as you came here, did you pass Paul and the Indian with the letter-bags? Go and try it, if you've a mind to. You love George; you love him dearly; I know it: and you deserve to be loved by him. 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. O, laws-a-mussey, see dis; here's a pictur' I found stickin' in that yar telescope machine, sar! I don't know; she may as well hear the hull of it. Point. 49, Paul, a quadroon boy, aged thirteen. Zoe. Come, Paul, are you ready? Make bacon of me, you young whelp. [*Goes*L.] Paul reste el! You're bidding to separate them, Judge. I'll lend you all you want. Every word of it, Squire. George is courted by the rich Southern belle heiress Dora Sunnyside, but he finds himself falling in love with Zoe, the daughter of his uncle through one of the slaves. Scud. I deserve to be a nigger this day---I feel like one, inside. Paul. Then, as I knelt there, weeping for courage, a snake rattled beside me. [] If she ain't worth her weight in sunshine, you may take one of my fingers off, and choose which you like." (Act I, Scene 1, Page 24) What say ye? there it comes---it comes---don't you hear a footstep on the dry leaves? George. When the play was performed in England it was given a happy ending, in which the mixed-race couple are united. [2] Among antebellum melodramas, it was considered second in popularity only to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852).[3]. In an act of desperation she drinks a vial of poison, and Scudder enters to deliver the good news that McClosky was proven guilty of murdering Paul and that Terrebonne now belongs to George. Boucicault The Octoroon Quotes & Sayings. O, Zoe! Zoe. EnterLafoucheand*Jackson,L. Jackson. [Scandalized.] Grace (a Yellow Girl, a Slave) Miss Gimber Dido (the Cook, a Slave) Mrs. Dunn. Pete, tell Miss Zoe that we are waiting. I'll clear him off there---he'll never know what stunned him. 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? this old Liverpool debt---that may cross me---if it only arrive too late---if it don't come by this mail---Hold on! Hold on now, Jacob; we've got to figure on that---let us look straight at the thing. Isn't he sweet! Cut all away for'ard---overboard with every bale afire. Ya! George, you may without a blush confess your love for the Octoroon! Ain't you took them bags to the house yet? Paul! [Takes out his knife. Hush! I will! Come here quite; now quite. Ya!---as he? This business goes agin me, Ratts---'tain't right. M'Closky. Yes! Here, stay! I do, but I can't do it. Mr. Scudder, good morning. Why don't you speak, sir? Solon. No; Wahnotee is a gentle, honest creature, and remains here because he loves that boy with the tenderness of a woman. M'Closky. The men leave to fetch the authorities, but McClosky escapes. Zoe. I don't care, they were blue this morning, but it don't signify now. 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. Listen to me. Scud. All night, as I fled through the cane-brake, I heard footsteps behind me. "No. Judge, you can raise the hull on mortgage---going for half its value. Last night I overheard you weeping in your room, and you said, "I'd rather see her dead than so! Point. 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. I can go no farther. 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. I love one who is here, and he loves me---George. I could not do it. ah! I guess he ain't left home yet, Colonel. Zoe, explain yourself---your language fills me with shapeless fears. *Re-enter*Lafouche,R.,with smashed apparatus. faded---is it not? Mrs. P.Zoe, dear, I'm glad to see you more calm this morning. I also feel that demonstrations wouldn't go on unless there is a TV camera. Since this letter would allow Mrs. Peyton to avoid selling Terrebonne, McClosky kills Paul and takes the letter. I wish he would make love to me. air you true? Zoe is your child by a quadroon slave, and you didn't free her; blood! good, good nurse: you will, you will. Dat you drink is fust rate for red fever. Scud. [Reads.] Mrs. Peyton, George Peyton, Terrebonne is yours. I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. [Aside to Zoe.] Scud. No, you goose! 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. [Darts between them.] O, let all go, but save them! Scud. George. "Ma'am," says I, "the apparatus can't mistake." And, strangers, ain't we forgetting there's a lady present. where am I? I thank Heaven you have not lived to see this day. The sun is rising. What say ye, gentlemen? Scud. Scud. Your own Zoe, that loves you, aunty, so much, so much.---[Gets phial.] Scene.---The Wharf, The Steamer "Magnolia" alongside,L.;a bluff rock,R.U.E. Ratts*discovered, superintending the loading of ship. I shrunk from it and fled. Peyton.] What? When I travelled round with this machine, the homely folks used to sing out, "Hillo, mister, this ain't like me!" Improvements---anything, from a stay-lace to a fire-engine. Pete. Dora, I once made you weep; those were the only tears I caused any body. Scud. [Rushes onM'Closky---M'Closkydraws his knife.]. 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. Will you forgive me? I shall knock it down to the Squire---going---gone---for one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. I see we are just in time for breakfast. Point. Dar, do ye hear dat, ye mis'able darkies, dem gals is worth a boat load of kinder men dem is. Scud. | Contact Us Why you tremble so? look at these fingers; do you see the nails are of a bluish tinge? [Examines paper.]. Look here, the boy knows and likes me, Judge; let him come my way? Zoe, what have I said to wound you? The Octoroon or The Lily of Louisiana is a dark tale of crime, race and slavery. Peyton.] George. George. Then, if they go, they'll take Zoe---she'll follow them. EnterPete,R.U.E. [he is lame]; he carries a mop and pail. Dora. Zoe, he's going; I want him to stay and make love to me that's what I came for to-day. Now, take care what you do. Dora, you are right. I think so; shall I ask him that too? We've had talk enough; now for proof. McClosky has proved that Judge Peyton did not succeed in legally freeing her, as he had meant to do. No; the hitching line was cut with a knife. M'Closky. In a word, I have seen and admired you! Who's you to set up screching?---be quiet! George. How long before we start, captain? Good morning, Mrs. Peyton. I fled; it followed. I'm responsible for the crittur---go on. [Calling at door.] George. No. He calls me Omenee, the Pigeon, and Miss Zoe is Ninemoosha, the Sweetheart. Well, he cut that for the photographing line. I will dine on oysters and palomitas and wash them down with white wine. Scud. 'An Octoroon' was written over about three years but premiered in 2014. [Dora*gets water.] 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. [Wahnotee*raises apron and runs off,*L.U.E.Paul*sits for his picture---M'Closkyappears from*R.U.E.]. If you bid me do so I will obey you---. Come along; she har what we say, and she's cryin' for us. Come, cheer up, old friend. [Reading bill.] 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! Thank you, Mas'r Ratts: I die for you, sar; hold up for me, sar. He is incapable of any but sincere and pure feelings---so are you. Scud. Be calm---darn the things; the proceeds of this sale won't cover the debts of the estate. Dido. Scud. Lafouche. My father gives me freedom---at least he thought so. he is here. What? whew! It's a good drink to see her come into the cotton fields---the niggers get fresh on the sight of her. You will not forget poor Zoe! . 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. Pete. Brightness will return amongst you. Zoe. Ah, George, our race has at least one virtue---it knows how to suffer! Scad. Dora! Then I will go to the Red Light or the Monte Carlo and dance the floor afire. Scud. No, it won't; we have confessed to Dora that we love each other. You're trembling so, you'll fall down directly. Pete. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. Do you know what the niggers round here call that sight? Ratts. O, why did he speak to me at all then? Scudder insists that they hold a trial, and the men search for evidence. Scud. I won't go on; that man's down. Minnie, fan me, it is so nice---and his clothes are French, ain't they? To be alive is to be breathing. See also She loves him! O, how I lapped up her words, like a thirsty bloodhound! [Seizing a fly whisk.] The child---'tis he! We are always in a perpetual state of being created and creating ourselves. Dido. [Reads.] Eleven hundred---going---going---sold! Scud. Come, Miss Dora, let me offer you my arm. Zoe. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. Go on, Colonel---Colonel Pointdexter, ma'am---the mortgagee, auctioneer, and general agent. Zoe. That boy and the Indian have gone down to the landing for the post-bags; they'll idle on the way as usual; my mare will take me across the swamp, and before they can reach the shed, I'll have purified them bags---ne'er a letter shall show this mail. Hi! Hold quiet, you trash o' niggers! The Octoroon (1913) - Quotes - IMDb Menu Edit The Octoroon (1913) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. I've got hold of the tail of a rat---come out. No, [looks off,R.] 'tis Pete and the servants---they come this way. Scud. Can you take any more? she will har you. George. A puppy, if he brings any of his European airs here we'll fix him.---[Aloud.] Pete. George. And what shall I say? if I had you one by one, alone in the swamp, I'd rip ye all. M'Closky. I saw the mail-bags lying in the shed this morning. Be the first to contribute! Thank'ye. [*Exit*Mrs. Peyton*and*George,L.U.E.] A slave! [Going.]. I see it in your face. Be the first to contribute! Pete. Good morning, Colonel. All there is there would kill one, wouldn't it? For the first time, twenty-five thousand---last time! EnterZoe,L.U.E.,very pale, and stands on table.---M'Closkyhitherto has taken no interest in the sale, now turns his chair. *EnterPete, Grace, Minnie, Solon, Dido,and all*Niggers,R.U.E. Pete. Scud. How can she then ask her father to free me? This blow has staggered me some. Scud. [Aside.] Now don't stir. Zoe. Look dar! [A pause.] I always said you were the darndest thief that ever escaped a white jail to misrepresent the North to the South. Jackson. He plans to buy her and make her his mistress. M'Closky. Scud. Scud. Hello, Pete, I never heard of that affair. Scud. [Leads her forward---aside.] Buy me, Mas'r Ratts, do buy me, sar? yar, you Wahnotee! how can you say so? Get out, you cub! Zoe, tell Pete to give my mare a feed, will ye? George. It will cost me all I'm worth. My love! Paul. O, here, do you know what annuity the old judge left you is worth to-day? Mrs. Pey. Because it was the truth; and I had rather be a slave with a free soul, than remain free with a slavish, deceitful heart. "Madam, we are instructed by the firm of Mason and Co., to inform you that a dividend of forty per cent, is payable on the 1st proximo, this amount in consideration of position, they send herewith, and you will find enclosed by draft to your order, on the Bank of Louisiana, which please acknowledge---the balance will be paid in full, with interest, in three, six, and nine months---your drafts on Mason Brothers at those dates will be accepted by La Palisse and Compagnie, N. O., so that you may command immediate use of the whole amount at once, if required. Boucicault's manuscript actually reads "Indian, French and 'Merican." My love? Here you are, in the very attitude of your crime! I'm afraid to die; yet I am more afraid to live. Paul. Laws, mussey! Ratts. I would be alone a little while. George. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. ", Zoe. Come, Mrs. Peyton, take my arm. I'm waiting on your fifty thousand bid. [Exit slowly, as if concealing himself,R.U.E. George. When she goes along, she just leaves a streak of love behind her. Death was there beside me, and I dared not take it. One of them is prepared with a self-developing liquid that I've invented. Pete. Coventry Patmore, if a man has no stability when you meet him, you may want to stay clear of him. Mrs. Pey. George says he can "overcome the obstacle" (43), but Zoe protests that they cannot be together. O, here he is. 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. O, my---my heart! Deep songs don't come from the surface; they come from the deep down. A view of the Plantation Terrebonne, in Louisiana.---A branch of the Mississippi is seen winding through the Estate.---A low built, but extensive Planter's Dwelling, surrounded with a veranda, and raised a few feet from the ground, occupies theL. I can't introduce any darned improvement there. Lafouche. George. [Examines the ground.] Uh---uh, let's have a peep. If even Asian women saw the men of their own blood as less than other men, what was the use in arguing otherwise? Sunny. [They rush onM'Closky,and disarm him.] [Raising his voice.] is dat him creeping dar? Paul. Don't say that, ma'am; don't say that to a man that loves another gal. Zoe. Excuse me; one of the principal mortgagees has made the demand. You're a man as well as an auctioneer, ain't ye? Ratts. M'Closky. Pete. George. The Octoroon is appropriately considered a sensation drama, though it received the label retrospectively. I wish to speak to you. But now I guess it will arrive too late---these darned U. S. mails are to blame. M'Closky. *EnterThibodeauxand*Sunnyside,R.U.E. Thibo. gib it to ole Pete! I couldn't bear to see him put to work. he tinks it's a gun. I'm afraid they must be right; I can't understand a word of all this. 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. After various slaves are auctioned off, George and the buyers are shocked to see Zoe up on the stand. M'Closky. Hold on, you'll see. Be the first to contribute! It's a shame to allow that young cub to run over the Swamps and woods, hunting and fishing his life away instead of hoeing cane. Dora Sunnyside (only Daughter and Heiress to Sunnyside, a Southern Belle) Mrs. Stoddart. [*Hands papers to*Mrs. Scud. I must see you no more. 2, the yellow girl Grace, with two children---Saul, aged four, and Victoria five." George. [Shouts heard,R.]. Seeking 2 Actor Team for Spring George. M'Closky. [Searching him.] I must be going---it is late. Closky tue Paul---kill de child with your tomahawk dar; 'twasn't you, no---ole Pete allus say so. [Raises hand to back of his neck.] Traduced! Hi! Darn me, if I couldn't raise thirty thousand on the envelope alone, and ten thousand more on the post-mark. Thank ye; thank ye. me! [Pause.] O, dear, has he suddenly come to his senses? Zoe. M'Closky. You are illegitimate, but love knows no prejudice. "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---. and will despise me, spurn me, loathe me, when he learns who, what, he has so loved.---[Aloud.] Ratts. [Re-enters from boat.] Can't be ober dar an' here too---I ain't twins. M'Closky. Dora. George. I feel that I departed amid universal and sincere regret. Scud. But what do we pay for that possession? Scud. Yes, for I'd rather be black than ungrateful! Scud. Mrs. P.[L. C.] My nephew is not acquainted with our customs in Louisiana, but he will soon understand. Keep quiet, and let's talk sense. they call it the Yankee hugging the Creole. Just one month ago I quitted Paris. That's about right. [Eagerly.] Why you speak so wild? Tullian Tchividjian. He will love you---he must. What? You'll take care, I guess, it don't go too cheap. Hugh vieu. but the deed that freed you was not lawful. As I swam down, I thought I heard something in the water, as if pursuing me---one of them darned alligators, I suppose---they swarm hereabout---may they crunch every limb of ye! Git away dere! Dear Dora, try to understand it with your heart. Bless his dear old handwriting, it's all I ever saw of him. Go on, Colonel. M'Closky. Don't be a fool; they'd kill you, and then take her, just as soon as---stop; Old Sunnyside, he'll buy her! [ToMrs. Lafouche. It is in the hearts of brave men, who can tell right from wrong, and from whom justice can't be bought. Now, gentlemen, I'm proud to submit to you the finest lot of field hands and house servants that was ever offered for competition; they speak for themselves, and do credit to their owners.---[Reads.] The first mortgagee bids forty thousand dollars. I left it last night all safe. Art becomes art only when it's shared with others. Ratts. This is folly, Dora. A julep, gal, that's my breakfast, and a bit of cheese. [C.] I'm sorry to intrude, but the business I came upon will excuse me. Zoe, you are pale. I shall do so if you weep. M'Closky. 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. I saw a small bottle of cologne and asked if it was for sale. Mr. Lafouche, why, how do you do, sir? The sheriff from New Orleans has taken possession---Terrebonne is in the hands of the law. Omnes. Paul. Sunny. Zoe. They have realized that Paul is missing, and most believe him dead. I think we may begin business. Ratts. Now, my culled brethren, gird up your lines, and listen---hold on yer bref---it's a comin. there's that noise again! Scud. Copyright 2023 Famous Quotes & Sayings. Yes, Mas'r George, dey was born here; and old Pete is fonder on 'em dan he is of his fiddle on a Sunday. Scud. George, you cannot marry me; the laws forbid it! I have come to say good-by, sir; two hard words---so hard, they might break many a heart; mightn't they? Paul. Now it's cooking, laws mussey, I feel it all inside, as if it was at a lottery. The White Slave; or, the Octoroon (1913) - Quotes - IMDb Edit The White Slave; or, the Octoroon (1913) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. Dido. Scene 2 is set in the Bayou, where M'Closky is asleep. A large table is in theC.,at back. What's come ob de child? Zoe, you are suffering---your lips are white---your cheeks are flushed. Yours, &c, James Brown." 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. It's soooo dark. George Peyton returns to the United States from a trip to France to find that the plantation he has inherited is in dire financial straits as a result of his late uncle's beneficence. Lynch him! Point. You don't come here to take life easy. [L.] Let the old darkey alone---eight hundred for that boy. You gib me rattan, Mas'r Clostry, but I guess you take a berry long stick to Wahnotee; ugh, he make bacon of you. I don't know when my time on earth will be up; but I DO know that today, I am one day closer. Fifteen thousand. Scud. Yes; you was the first to hail Judge Lynch. I thought none but colored people worked. In comparison, a quadroon would have one quarter African ancestry and a mulatto for the most part has historically implied half African ancestry. [Sees tomahawk in Wahnotee's belt---draws it out and examines it.] Mrs. P.The child was a favorite of the judge, who encouraged his gambols. I'm on you like a painter, and when I'm drawed out I'm pizin. Are they? Well when I say go, den lift dis rag like dis, see! Ten miles we've had to walk, because some blamed varmin onhitched our dug-out. Zoe. See also Trivia | Goofs | Crazy Credits | Alternate Versions | Connections | Soundtracks Getting Started | Contributor Zone Do you want me to stop here and bid for it? Mas'r Ratts, you hard him sing about de place where de good niggers go, de last time. I felt it---and how she can love! No; if you were I'd buy you, if you cost all I'm worth. We're ready; the jury's impanelled---go ahead---who'll be accuser? Point. Dem doctors ain't no 'count; dey don't know nuffin. Evidence! Hark! [Takes them.] The injiun! You! Gain full access to show guides, character breakdowns, auditions, monologues and more! What, you won't, won't ye? It ain't no use now; you got to gib it up! Wahnotee. Is that you, Mr. Overseer? European, I suppose. Now fix yourself. See also Trivia | Goofs | Crazy Credits | Alternate Versions | Connections | Soundtracks Did You Know? a slave! Mrs. P.Ah! 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. You don't come here to take life easy. The house of Mason Brothers, of Liverpool, failed some twenty years ago in my husband's debt. "When she goes along, she just leaves a streak of love behind her. What's this, eh? So it went, till one day the judge found the tap wouldn't run. 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