Pete. I left my loves and my creditors equally inconsolable. 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. . Curse their old families---they cut me---a bilious, conceited, thin lot of dried up aristocracy. Solon. A Room in Mrs. Peyton's house; entrances,R.U.E.*andL.U.E.---An Auction Bill stuck up,*L.---chairs,C.,*and tables,*R. and L. Pete. Well---I didn't mean to kill him, did I? Pete. 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. [Aside.] Mrs. P.No wonder! Pete. George. That one black drop of blood burns in her veins and lights up her heart like a foggy sun. Pete. Mrs. P.I fear that the property is so involved that the strictest economy will scarcely recover it. Why, I was dreaming---curse it! You may drink dat, Mas'r George. Zoe. Zoe. go on. Come, Miss Dora, let me offer you my arm. M'Closky. Paul. [Darts between them.] Important Quotes. Guess they nebber was born---dem tings! [*Points down, and shows by pantomime how he buried*Paul.]. you're looking well. [Aside to Sunnyside.] Why not! Ratts. It wants an hour yet to daylight---here is Pete's hut---[Knocks.] Captain, you've loaded up here until the boat is sunk so deep in the mud she won't float. None o' ye ign'rant niggars could cry for yerselves like dat. I know you'll excuse it. [Speaking in his ear-trumpet.] You are illegitimate, but love knows no prejudice. Scud. Hush! George. Jackson, I want to get to Ophelensis to-night. why, clar out! Do you think they would live here on such terms? I don't know, but I feel it's death! If we can't behave like Christians, let's try and act like gentlemen. See also Trivia | Goofs | Crazy Credits | Alternate Versions | Connections | Soundtracks Did You Know? No, [looks off,R.] 'tis Pete and the servants---they come this way. 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? [Zoe sings without,L.]. George, do you see that hand you hold? What, Zoe! With Dora's wealth, he explains, Terrebonne will not be sold and the slaves will not have to be separated. Ah! Scud. 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. Zoe, you are young; your mirror must have told you that you are beautiful. Some of those sirens of Paris, I presume, [Pause.] We have known each other but a few days, but to me those days have been worth all the rest of my life. Mrs. P.[Embracing him.] Gen'l'men, my colored frens and ladies, dar's mighty bad news gone round. Dear Dora, try to understand it with your heart. Zoe. [R. C.] That's my son---buy him, Mas'r Ratts; he's sure to sarve you well. That Indian is a nuisance. what are you blowing about like a steamboat with one wheel for? Essay Topics. ha---git out! Scud. You gib me rattan, Mas'r Clostry, but I guess you take a berry long stick to Wahnotee; ugh, he make bacon of you. McClosky, however, outbids her for Zoe; George is restrained from attacking him by his friends. Pete. Paul. Scud. O, how d'ye do, sir? Hold on, now! [R.] Well, what's the use of argument whar guilt sticks out so plain; the boy and Injiun were alone when last seen. Consarn those Liverpool English fellers, why couldn't they send something by the last mail? Where did she live and what sort of life did she lead? What's this? Weenee Paul. my life, my happy life; why has it been so bright? Bless his dear old handwriting, it's all I ever saw of him. I have a restorative here---will you poor it in the glass? "Ma'am, your nose drawed it. Where are they? Dora. Sunny. Wahnotee. there's that noise again! What, you won't, won't ye? She said, "It's free with purchase." "Sign that," says the overseer; "it's only a formality." See here, you imps; if I catch you, and your red skin yonder, gunning in my swamps, I'll give you rats, mind; them vagabonds, when the game's about, shoot my pigs. [*With-draws slide, turns and sees*Paul.] [Sighing.] Squire Sunnyside, you've got a pretty bit o' land, Squire. [Puts his head under the darkening apron.] Uh---uh, let's have a peep. The men accuse Wahnotee of the murder, and McClosky calls for him to be lynched. I will dine on oysters and palomitas and wash them down with white wine. 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. "No," say Mas'r George, "I'd rather sell myself fuss; but dey shan't suffer, nohow,---I see 'em dam fuss.". I didn't know whether they are completely honest. George, leave me! George. [L.] Yelping hound---take that. Zoe. Ratts. 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. Farewell, Dora. [Re-enters with phial.] Never, aunt! I was up before daylight. Whar's de coffee? Paul. Will ye? ya! [Examines paper.]. Dora Sunnyside (only Daughter and Heiress to Sunnyside, a Southern Belle) Mrs. Stoddart. And I remained here to induce you to offer that heart to Dora! Ratts. Fifteen thousand bid for the Octoroon. Ratts. I must launch my dug-out, and put for the bay, and in a few hours I shall be safe from pursuit on board of one of the coasting schooners that run from Galveston to Matagorda. Let me hide them till I teach my heart. M'Closky. Some of you niggers run and hole de hosses; and take dis, Dido. Scud. can you smile at this moment? George. George. No, Injiun; we deal out justice here, not revenge. O, I have not spoiled that anyhow. Yes! [C.] My dear aunt, why do you not move from this painful scene? 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. M'Closky. Pete. Dora. What! The judge drew money like Bourbon whiskey from a barrel, and never turned off the tap. Scud. What, sar? Dora. The first mortgagee bids forty thousand dollars. that you will not throw me from you like a poisoned thing! 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. You p'tend to be sorry for Paul, and prize him like dat. 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.] here's Mas'r Sunnyside, and Missey Dora, jist drov up. Ratts. Fifteen thousand. Wahnotee. Their presence keeps alive the reproach against me that I ruined them; yet, if this money should come. Scud. See Injiun; look dar [shows him plate], see dat innocent: look, dar's de murderer of poor Paul. he is here. I saw a small bottle of cologne and asked if it was for sale. Paul. What more d'ye want---ain't that proof enough? New York, NY, Linda Ray Then I'd like to hire a lady to go to auction and buy my hands. When I travelled round with this machine, the homely folks used to sing out, "Hillo, mister, this ain't like me!" 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. Scud. 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. *, M'Olosky. M'Closky. I ain't no count, sar. No, I'm the skurriest crittur at a fight you ever see; my legs have been too well brought up to stand and see my body abused; I take good care of myself, I can tell you. [Shows plate to jury.] All Rights Reserved. Scud. Paul. So it went, till one day the judge found the tap wouldn't run. Zoe. Pete. 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? Ten miles we've had to walk, because some blamed varmin onhitched our dug-out. Debbel's in de pail! You can protect me from that man---do let me die without pain. Zoe. EnterSolon*andDidowith coffee-pot, dishes, &c.,*R.U.E. Dido. Paying the iron price. Share with your friends. Why you tremble so? 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. Now, what have you done to show them the distinction? Scud. Scud. Yes, Mas'r George, dey was born here; and old Pete is fonder on 'em dan he is of his fiddle on a Sunday. Sunny. What's the matter, Ratts? Dora said you were slow; if she could hear you now---. M'Closky. No; but I loved you so, I could not bear my fate; and then I stood your heart and hers. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. Stay, Mr. Peyton; Zoe, a word! If it don't stain de cup, your wicked ole life's in danger, sure! 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. Pete. Bah! Jacob M'Closky, 'twas you murdered that boy! Point. The judge didn't understand accounts---the overseer did. Are you ready? M'Closky overhears their conversation, but still vows he'll "have her if it costs [him] [his] life" (44). dat right! D'ye hear it---nearer---nearer---ah! | Privacy Policy You are a white man; you'll not leave one of your own blood to be butchered by the red-skin? Will you forgive me? George says he can "overcome the obstacle" (43), but Zoe protests that they cannot be together. George. Miss Sunnyside, permit me a word; a feeling of delicacy has suspended upon my lips an avowal, which---. Scud. Point. I dare say you left at least a dozen beloved women there, at the same time. Zoe. All right, Judge; I thought there was a mistake. is dat him creeping dar? What? Point. In cash? I lost them in the cedar swamp---again they haunted my path down the bayou, moving as I moved, resting when I rested---hush! Stan' back, boys! This business goes agin me, Ratts---'tain't right. M'Closky. M'Closky. "I'm afraid to die; yet I am more afraid to live," Zoe says, asking Dido to "protect me from that mando let me die without pain" (70). Thib. Tableaux.*. M'Closky. come home---there are strangers in the house. Scud. No; a weakness, that's all---a little water. Hush! O, law, sir, dat debil Closky, he tore hisself from de gen'lam, knock me down, take my light, and trows it on de turpentine barrels, and de shed's all afire! Where's that man from Mobile that wanted to give one hundred and eighty thousand? You heard him say it was hopeless. Paul. Paul. Scud. The Wharf---goods, boxes, and bales scattered about---a camera on stand, R. Scudder, R., Dora, L., George*andPauldiscovered;Dorabeing photographed byScudder,who is arranging photographic apparatus,GeorgeandPaullooking on at back.*. | Privacy Policy Born here! I---my mother was---no, no---not her! Dion Boucicault Quotes - BrainyQuote. [Aside,C.] Insolent as usual.---[Aloud.] He loves me---what of that? Scud. Mr. Scudder, take us with you---Mr. Peyton is so slow, there's no getting him, on. Pete. He said so. M'Closky. M'Closky. M'Closky. M'Closky. gib it to ole Pete! How can you ask that vulgar ruffian to your table? 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.". the rat's out. I don't like that man. you stan' dar, I see you Ta demine usti. I arrived just too late, he had grabbed the prize as I came up. Pete. forgive your poor child. where am I? How are we sure the boy is dead at all? Ya! Paul. Try him, then---try him on the spot of his crime. 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. She's won this race agin the white, anyhow; it's too late now to start her pedigree. 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? Zoe. Guess that you didn't leave anything female in Europe that can lift an eyelash beside that gal. If he stirs, I'll put a bullet through his skull, mighty quick. No; Wahnotee is a gentle, honest creature, and remains here because he loves that boy with the tenderness of a woman. M'Closky. Pete, you old turkey-buzzard, saddle my mare. and will despise me, spurn me, loathe me, when he learns who, what, he has so loved.---[Aloud.] You thought you had cornered me, did ye? Ain't he! The list of your slaves is incomplete---it wants one. Zoe, will you remain here? Darn it, when I see a woman in trouble, I feel like selling the skin off my back. Calm as a tombstone, and with about as much life. . What you's gwine to do, missey? M'Closky hates Scudder in return, especially because they both love Zoe, Mr. Peyton's "octoroon" daughter, Zoe. Scud. I'll sweep these Peytons from this section of the country. Thib. [Dances.]. Something forcing its way through the undergrowth---it comes this way---it's either a bear or a runaway nigger. *EnterThibodeauxand*Sunnyside,R.U.E. Thibo. Point. [falls on her knees, with her face in her hands] no---no master, but one. Go it, if you're a mind to. Point. Come, form a court then, choose a jury---we'll fix this varmin. Dat's de laziest nigger on dis yere property. George. Dora, I once made you weep; those were the only tears I caused any body. Is not Dora worth any man's---. 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. Between us we've ruined these Peytons; you fired the judge, and I finished off the widow. Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. Don't do nuffin. It's not a painful death, aunty, is it? You are right, sir; though I shrank from expressing that opinion in her presence, so bluntly. Mas'r Ratts, you hard him sing about de place where de good niggers go, de last time. Zoe, listen to me, then. It was that rascal M'Closky---but he got rats, I avow---he killed the boy, Paul, to rob this letter from the mail-bags---the letter from Liverpool you know---he sot fire to the shed---that was how the steamboat got burned up. The Octoroon is a play by Dion Boucicault that opened in 1859 at The Winter Garden Theatre, New York City. Zoe. That judgment still exists; under it and others this estate is sold to-day. I think we may begin business. Sharon Gannon. [Solon goes down and stands behind Ratts.] No---no. he's coming this way, fighting with his Injiun. Now, it ain't no use trying to get mad, Mas'r Scudder. Isn't he sweet! Yes, ma'am, I hold a mortgage over Terrebonne; mine's a ninth, and pretty near covers all the property, except the slaves. Zoe. What's de charge, Mas'r Scudder? [L.] Let the old darkey alone---eight hundred for that boy. If that old nigger ain't asleep, I'm blamed. We've caught this murdering Injiun, and are going to try him. [ExitMrs. PeytonandSunnysideto house. [Music.]. M'Closky. Scud. Ivan Glasenberg, Very few things hurt my young ego more than an Asian female openly shaming me for my Asian-ness. Look at 'em, Jacob, for they are honest water from the well of truth. Why you speak so wild? Stephen King, I have a feeling that demonstrations don't accomplish anything. Franco Harris, You have to let it go. Not lawful---no---but I am going to where there is no law---where there is only justice. [Exit slowly, as if concealing himself,R.U.E. George. She refuses, but Zoe steals the bottle from her anyway and runs off. Dat's right, missus! 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. shall we have one law for the red-skin and another for the white? The Octoroon or The Lily of Louisiana is a dark tale of crime, race and slavery. M'Closky. EnterPaul,R.U.E.,withIndian,who goes up. the bags are mine---now for it!---[Opens mail-bags.] The proof is here, in my heart. give me the rest that no master but One can disturb---the sleep from which I shall awake free! Could you see the roots of my hair you would see the same dark, fatal mark. If you want a quarrel---. I'm not guilty; would ye murder me? He's yours, Captain Ratts, Magnolia steamer. One hundred thousand bid for this mag---. What's the law? But for Heaven's sake go---here comes the crowd. Point. 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. 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. ], M'Closky. "When she goes along, she just leaves a streak of love behind her. Will she gladly see you wedded to the child of her husband's slave? I'm afraid they must be right; I can't understand a word of all this. Hillo! George, you cannot marry me; the laws forbid it! Cum yer now---stand round, cause I've got to talk to you darkies---keep dem chil'n quiet---don't make no noise, de missus up dar har us. [Rises.] 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. For a year or two all went fine. You see dat hole in dar, sar. The conflict centers around Zoe, "the Octoroon", a term used at the time to describe a person who was 1/8 African, 7/8 Caucasian. Pete. "No. M'Closky. George---George---hush---they come! I say, I'd like to say summit soft to the old woman; perhaps it wouldn't go well, would it? M'Closky. If you bid me do so I will obey you---. That is the ineffaceable curse of Cain. Let her pass! I'm from fair to middlin', like a bamboo cane, much the same all the year round. [Aside.] Hello, Pete, I never heard of that affair. You ign'ant Injiun, it can't hurt you! He will love you---he must. Yes, for you, for me, for dem little ones, dem folks cried. And dar's de 'paratus---O, gosh, if I could take a likeness ob dis child! The Octoroon: The Story of the Turpentine Forest (1909) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. [Wahnotee*rushes on, and at*M'Closky,L.H.]. We can leave this country, and go far away where none can know. Whoever said so lied. Scudder. Scud. George. De time he gone just 'bout enough to cook dat dish plate. M'Closky. 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. The first lot on here is the estate in block, with its sugar-houses, stock, machines, implements, good dwelling-houses and furniture. [Calls off.] [Throws mail bags down and sits on them,L. C.] Pret, now den go. The child---'tis he! [Smiling.] Be the first to contribute! [Looking at watch.] The Octoroon (1913) - Quotes - IMDb Menu Edit The Octoroon (1913) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. Here then, I'll put back these Peytons in Terrebonne, and they shall know you done it; yes, they'll have you to thank for saving them from ruin. [Seated,R. C.] Fan me, Minnie.---[Aside.] Do you know what the niggers round here call that sight? I don't know; she may as well hear the hull of it. Yes, I'm here, somewhere, interferin'. The men begin to call for McClosky to be lynched, but Scudder convinces them to send him to jail instead. 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. Ah! O! I won't go on; that man's down. Race or not, it's a story about . You don't see Zoe, Mr. Sunnyside. Quotations by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, American Playwright, Born December 29, 1984. ], M'Closky. [GoesR.,*and looks atWahnotee,L.,through the camera;Wahnoteesprings back with an expression of alarm.*]. Raits. [*Goes*L.] Paul reste el! clar out! Dora. Whar's Paul, Wahnotee? Come, then, but if I catch you drinkin', O, laws a mussey, you'll get snakes! What was her name? The men leave to fetch the authorities, but McClosky escapes. The Octoroon Quotes & Sayings Happy to read and share the best inspirational The Octoroon quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes. Subject to your life interest and an annuity to Zoe, is it not so? With them around us, if we have not wealth, we shall at least have the home that they alone can make---. Ah! New York, NY, Ages 12-17: Camp Broadway Ensemble @ Carnegie Hall And all for the sake of that old woman and that young puppy---eh? Keep quiet, and let's talk sense. Jackson. If she ain't worth her weight in sunshine you may take one of my fingers off, and choose which you like. 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. I feel so big with joy, creation ain't wide enough to hold me. I will be thirty years old again in thirty seconds. The Octoroon's Sacrifice (1912) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. [Conceals himself.]. George reluctantly agrees. I won't strike him, even with words. 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. Scud. now mind. One hundred and forty-nine bales. George. No, no---life is good for young ting like you. Cut all away for'ard---overboard with every bale afire. It ain't no use now; you got to gib it up! O, laws-a-mussey, see dis; here's a pictur' I found stickin' in that yar telescope machine, sar! Dora. You have been tried---honestly tried and convicted. Deborah Blake, I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Ratts. Scud. You be darned! What? We are catching fire forward; quick, set free from the shore. [Sits,R.], Dora. Scud. I brought half this ruin on this family, with my all-fired improvements. Hark! M'Closky. 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. When I am dead she will not be jealous of your love for me, no laws will stand between us. Paul. Zoe. [Re-enters from boat.] I feel that I departed amid universal and sincere regret. No, no! no violence---the critter don't know what we mean. Dido. M'Closky. dem tings---dem?---getaway [*makes blow at the*Children.] I will! George. Now it's cooking, laws mussey, I feel it all inside, as if it was at a lottery. Enjoy reading and share 1 famous quotes about The Octoroon with everyone. Very bad, aunty; and the heart aches worse, so they can get no rest. Brightness will return amongst you. I must keep you, Captain, to the eleven hundred. If even Asian women saw the men of their own blood as less than other men, what was the use in arguing otherwise? Scud. Pete. Scud. ], Paul. I hope I'm not intruding. 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