Lafouche. Peyton.]. Paul. Dear George, you now see what a miserable thing I am. To be alive is to be breathing. George, George, your words take away my breath! And what shall I say? [Who has been looking about the camera.] Mr. Sunnyside, I can't do this job of showin' round the folks; my stomach goes agin it. He gone down to de landing last night wid Mas'r Scudder; not come back since---kint make it out. 2, the yellow girl Grace, with two children---Saul, aged four, and Victoria five." The last word, an important colloquialism, was misread by the typesetter of the play. At college they said I was a fool---I must be. 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? "When she goes along, she just leaves a streak of love behind her. Zoe. 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! Just as soon as we put this cotton on board. Ah! Boucicault The Octoroon Quotes & Sayings. Hark! Solon. You may drink dat, Mas'r George. Wood up thar, you Polio---hang on to the safety valve---guess she'll crawl off on her paddles. Lafouche. Whar's Paul, Wahnotee? here are marks of blood---look thar, red-skin, what's that? I thank Heaven you have not lived to see this day. The men accuse Wahnotee of the murder, and McClosky calls for him to be lynched. It contains elements of Romanticism and melodrama. Now it's cooking, laws mussey, I feel it all inside, as if it was at a lottery. go on. Terrebonne is yours. The Octoroon's Sacrifice (1912) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. George. I will! [L.] Mr. George, I'm going to say somethin' that has been chokin' me for some time. You see how easily I have become reconciled to my fate---so it will be with you. Will you forgive me? 3, Pete, a house servant. Will she gladly see you wedded to the child of her husband's slave? then I shall be sold!---sold! I had but one Master on earth, and he has given me my freedom! [They get on table.]. George. 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. Each word you utter makes my love sink deeper into my heart. Ratts. Whar's breakfass? Now don't stir. You want to hurt yourself. Scud. Why, judge, wasn't you lawyer enough to know that while a judgment stood against you it was a lien on your slaves? M'Closky. [Shows plate to jury.] Zoe. Darn that girl; she makes me quiver when I think of her; she's took me for all I'm worth. I left my loves and my creditors equally inconsolable. What's dat? [Astonished.] Act II Summary. My father gives me freedom---at least he thought so. my dear, dear father! Dora Sunnyside (only Daughter and Heiress to Sunnyside, a Southern Belle) Mrs. Stoddart. Hold quiet, you trash o' niggers! you seen dem big tears in his eyes. This old nigger, the grandfather of the boy you murdered, speaks for you---don't that go through you? gib it to ole Pete! 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. I see my little Nimrod yonder, with his Indian companion. they call it the Yankee hugging the Creole. The murder is captured on Scudder's photographic apparatus. Point. Come, Paul, are you ready? Is there any other bid? I'm not guilty; would ye murder me? or say the word, and I'll buy this old barrack, and you shall be mistress of Terrebonne. Do you think they would live here on such terms? Zoe. M'Closky. 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! Mrs. P.[L. C.] My nephew is not acquainted with our customs in Louisiana, but he will soon understand. Because, Miss Sunnyside, I have not learned to lie. Zoe. I'll take back my bid, Colonel. Go on, Colonel---Colonel Pointdexter, ma'am---the mortgagee, auctioneer, and general agent. M'Closky. What was her past? I say, then, air you honest men? [Speaking in his ear-trumpet.] You know you can't be jealous of a poor creature like me. Scud. Pete. I---my mother was---no, no---not her! Be the first to contribute! Good day, Mr. Thibodeaux---shall we drive down that way? George. [C.] My dear aunt, why do you not move from this painful scene? [Aside.] EnterLafoucheand*Jackson,L. Jackson. [Sits,R. C.]. Look there, jurymen. Scad. He's too fond of thieving and whiskey. Between us we've ruined these Peytons; you fired the judge, and I finished off the widow. 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. Zoe, he's going; I want him to stay and make love to me that's what I came for to-day. 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. Death was there beside me, and I dared not take it. She nebber was 'worth much 'a dat nigger. 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. Ten miles we've had to walk, because some blamed varmin onhitched our dug-out. Ha! George. den run to dat pine tree up dar [points,L.U.E.] and back agin, and den pull down de rag so, d'ye see? Has not my dear aunt forgotten it---she who had the most right to remember it? [Inside room.] Ten years ago the judge took as overseer a bit of Connecticut hardware called M'Closky. [Aside.] The first mortgagee bids forty thousand dollars. [To Jackson.] Minnie, fan me, it is so nice---and his clothes are French, ain't they? The men leave to fetch the authorities, but McClosky escapes. dem tings---dem?---getaway [*makes blow at the*Children.] M'Closky. Sign up today to unlock amazing theatre resources and opportunities. If it don't stain de cup, your wicked ole life's in danger, sure! Pete. Who is it? Pete. Why, I was dreaming---curse it! M'Closky. Mrs. P.So, Pete, you are spoiling those children as usual! 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. I say, Zoe, do you hear that? [Dies.---George*lowers her head gently.---Kneels.---Others form picture. [*Takes fan from*Minnie.] Stan' back, boys! he must not see me. What's he doing; is he asleep? Scud. Scud. Scud. Dora. 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. Now's your time, sar. Mrs. P.O, Salem! [Looks through camera] O, golly! ah! [Wahnotee*runs on, pulls down apron---seesPaul,lying on ground--- speaks to him---thinks he's shamming sleep---gesticulates and jabbers--- goes to him---moves him with feet, then kneels down to rouse him---to his horror finds him dead---expresses great grief---raises his eyes--- they fall upon the camera---rises with savage growl, seizes tomahawk and smashes camera to pieces, then goes toPaul---expresses grief, sorrow, and fondness, and takes him in his arms to carry him away.--- Tableau.*]. Come, then, but if I catch you drinkin', O, laws a mussey, you'll get snakes! Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. 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. O! Yes, near the quick there is a faint blue mark. Stop! [Knocks.] Dat's me---yer, I'm comin'---stand around dar. forgive your poor child. Enjoy reading and share 1 famous quotes about The Octoroon with everyone. If I was to try, I'd bust. Fair or foul, I'll have her---take that home with you! I have come to say good-by, sir; two hard words---so hard, they might break many a heart; mightn't they? M'Closky. Save me---save me! Scud. Sunny. We have known each other but a few days, but to me those days have been worth all the rest of my life. See also Trivia | Goofs | Crazy Credits | Alternate Versions | Connections | Soundtracks Getting Started | Contributor Zone "The free papers of my daughter, Zoe, registered February 4th, 1841." I mean that before you could draw that bowie-knife, you wear down your back, I'd cut you into shingles. Hold on now, Jacob; we've got to figure on that---let us look straight at the thing. Fifty against one! what are you blowing about like a steamboat with one wheel for? It's no use you putting on airs; I ain't gwine to sit up wid you all night and you drunk. Scud. You don't expect to recover any of this old debt, do you? Scud. "No. Dem doctors ain't no 'count; dey don't know nuffin. Mrs. P.Poor child! save me! 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. George. Hush! 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. "Ma'am, your nose drawed it. O, you horrible man! [Sighing.] Something forcing its way through the undergrowth---it comes this way---it's either a bear or a runaway nigger. Mrs. P.Why, George, I never suspected this! [ExitMrs. PeytonandSunnysideto house. [Seizing a fly whisk.] 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. Pete. Paul. Five hundred dollars!---[*To*Thibodeaux.] Pete. Sign that receipt, captain, and save me going up to the clerk. Yes; you was the first to hail Judge Lynch. We're ready; the jury's impanelled---go ahead---who'll be accuser? One morning dey swarmed on a sassafras tree in de swamp, and I cotched 'em all in a sieve.---dat's how dey come on top of dis yearth---git out, you,---ya, ya! But what do we pay for that possession? Scud. I saw the mail-bags lying in the shed this morning. She didn't mind how kind old judge was to her; and Solon, too, he'll holler, and break de ole lady's heart. Zoe. 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.". No, [looks off,R.] 'tis Pete and the servants---they come this way. Dora. 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! Zoe. Then I will go to the Acme or Keating's or the Big Gold Bar and sit down and draw my cards and fill an inside straight and win myself a thousand dollars. I'd cut my throat---or yours---yours I'd prefer. Sunny. Dora. *EnterPete, Grace, Minnie, Solon, Dido,and all*Niggers,R.U.E. Pete. ], M'Closky. 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. He's yours, Mr. George Peyton. That's enough. Scene 2 is set in the Bayou, where M'Closky is asleep. What say ye? O, Zoe, my child! [Goes up.]. For the first time, twenty-five thousand---last time! Scud. Hillo! Ratts. You are a white man; you'll not leave one of your own blood to be butchered by the red-skin? Point. If you bid me do so I will obey you---. Why don't you speak, sir? I can't introduce any darned improvement there. 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. Dido. Guess it kill a dozen---nebber try. *EnterPaul,wrestling with*Wahnotee,R.3. Well when I say go, den lift dis rag like dis, see! George. Dora. Happy to read and share the best inspirational Boucicault The Octoroon quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes. 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. George---George---hush---they come! No, I hesitated because an attachment I had formed before I had the pleasure of seeing you had not altogether died out. The Octoroon was a controversial play on both sides of the slavery debate when it debuted, as both abolitionists and pro-slavery advocates believed the play took the other camp's side. and my master---O! My love? Sunny. 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---. Dat you drink is fust rate for red fever. Ratts. You seem already familiar with the names of every spot on the estate. What court of law would receive such evidence? [Pete goes down.] Hello! Not lawful---no---but I am going to where there is no law---where there is only justice. Ratts. The proof is here, in my heart. stan' round thar! Zoe. who has been teasing you? After various slaves are auctioned off, George and the buyers are shocked to see Zoe up on the stand. I will, quicker than lightning. Point. Point. [Looks off.] We've had talk enough; now for proof. She loves him! M'Closky. Pete. Thank you, Mas'r Ratts: I die for you, sar; hold up for me, sar. [*Exit*Thibodeaux, Sunnyside, Ratts, Pointdexter, Grace, Jackson, Lafouche, Caillou, Solon,R.U.E. Scud. [R. C.] That's my son---buy him, Mas'r Ratts; he's sure to sarve you well. The first lot on here is the estate in block, with its sugar-houses, stock, machines, implements, good dwelling-houses and furniture. Some of those sirens of Paris, I presume, [Pause.] O, laws-a-mussey, see dis; here's a pictur' I found stickin' in that yar telescope machine, sar! M'Closky. Keep quiet, and let's talk sense. Scud. 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. Scud. That's about right. [Indignantly.] Dora. 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. come home---there are strangers in the house. 'Tain't you he has injured, 'tis the white man, whose laws he has offended. She has had the education of a lady. Hillo! 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. He who can love so well is honest---don't speak ill of poor Wahnotee. What's 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. Let me proceed by illustration. Extremely popular, the play was kept running continuously for years by seven road companies. Yes! | Contact Us No; like a sugar cane; so dry outside, one would never think there was so much sweetness within. Zoe. Then, as I knelt there, weeping for courage, a snake rattled beside me. This is folly, Dora. I left that siren city as I would have left a beloved woman. You will not give me to that man? 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. Ah! ], Paul. George. Scud. I've got hold of the tail of a rat---come out. Zoe, bring here the judge's old desk; it is in the library. Good morning, Colonel. [They rush onM'Closky,and disarm him.] Yes, ma'am, I hold a mortgage over Terrebonne; mine's a ninth, and pretty near covers all the property, except the slaves. 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. [Re-enters from boat.] Here! Let me be sold then, that I may free his name. Pete. [Sits. I believe Mr. M'Closky has a bill of sale on them. Dora then reappears and bids on Zoe she has sold her own plantation in order to rescue Terrebonne. Wahnotee. George. Mrs. P.Read, George. Don't b'lieve it, Mas'r George; dem black tings never was born at all; dey swarmed one mornin' on a sassafras tree in the swamp: I cotched 'em; dey ain't no 'count. Heaven has denied me children; so all the strings of my heart have grown around and amongst them, like the fibres and roots of an old tree in its native earth. All Rights Reserved. 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