We're ready; the jury's impanelled---go ahead---who'll be accuser? Pete. Boucicault adapted the play from the novel The Quadroon by Thomas Mayne Reid (1856). But don't mount to nuffin---kin work cannel. Were they all born on this estate? O, how d'ye do, sir? [Looks through camera] O, golly! My darling! Scudder. Paul! In comparison, a quadroon would have one quarter African ancestry and a mulatto for the most part has historically implied half African ancestry. He who can love so well is honest---don't speak ill of poor Wahnotee. To "Mrs. Peyton, Terrebonne, Louisiana, United States." It is in the hearts of brave men, who can tell right from wrong, and from whom justice can't be bought. Come along; she har what we say, and she's cryin' for us. Was dat?---a cry out dar in de swamp---dar agin! [Re-entering.] Now, ma'am, I'd like a little business, if agreeable. The Judge is a little deaf. Ratts. Scud. 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. Mrs. P.Read, George. I'll trouble you for that piece of baccy, Judge---thank you---so, gentlemen, as life is short, we'll start right off. We'll hire out our slaves, and live on their wages. O, my---my heart! This gal and them children belong to that boy Solon there. Dora, you are right. | Sitemap |. Evidence! They owed him over fifty thousand dollars. Ask him, I want to know; don't say I told you to inquire, but find out. if I stop here, I shall hug her right off. Dido. I see we are just in time for breakfast. I had but one Master on earth, and he has given me my freedom! Paul. The first lot on here is the estate in block, with its sugar-houses, stock, machines, implements, good dwelling-houses and furniture. The judge didn't understand accounts---the overseer did. ain't that a pooty gun. [Outside,R.U.E.] Dis way---dis way. George. O, Zoe, my child! Hold on! George. 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. Point. 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. Whar's de coffee? The murder is captured on Scudder's photographic apparatus. George R R Martin. O, laws-a-mussey, see dis; here's a pictur' I found stickin' in that yar telescope machine, sar! Zoe!---she faints! She's won this race agin the white, anyhow; it's too late now to start her pedigree. Ha, ha! Born here! They don't seem to be scared by the threat. Dora Sunnyside (only Daughter and Heiress to Sunnyside, a Southern Belle) Mrs. Stoddart. Not lawful---no---but I am going to where there is no law---where there is only justice. [Offers hand,Georgebows coldly,R. C.] [aside.] M'Closkyruns off,L.1. Eight hundred agin, then---I'll go it. George. Look in my eyes; is not the same color in the white? Hillo! Well, he lived in New York by sittin' with his heels up in front of French's Hotel, and inventin'---. Scud. Scud. Go on, Pete, you've waked up the Christian here, and the old hoss responds. M'Closky. I shall knock it down to the Squire---going---gone---for one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. "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." that'll save her. Zoe, explain yourself---your language fills me with shapeless fears. Scud. Ratts. gib it to ole Pete! Zoe. 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. Scud. George. Make bacon of me, you young whelp. Pete. Ben Tolosa You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Scud. he is here. Dora. EnterScudder, George, Ratts, Caillou, Pete, Grace, Minnie,and all theNegroes. You gib me rattan, Mas'r Clostry, but I guess you take a berry long stick to Wahnotee; ugh, he make bacon of you. They have realized that Paul is missing, and most believe him dead. The word Octoroon signifies "one-eighth blood" or the child of a Quadroon by a white. M'Closky. Happy to read and share the best inspirational Boucicault The Octoroon quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes. [Advances.] if dey aint all lighted, like coons, on dat snake fence, just out of shot. Is my plantation at Comptableau worth this? Point. [To the men.] [Wrenches it from him.] Pete. It is certain, madam; the judge was negligent, and doubtless forgot this small formality. You're bidding to separate them, Judge. save me! You have been tried---honestly tried and convicted. I hope we don't intrude on the family. Pete. I'll lend you all you want. Some of you niggers run and hole de hosses; and take dis, Dido. Dear George, you now see what a miserable thing I am. No---no. It's surely worth the love that dictated it; here are the papers and accounts. Then I'd like to hire a lady to go to auction and buy my hands. *] Now, give it to me. Go, Minnie, tell Pete; run! Pete. Everybody---that is, I heard so. M'Closky,Why not? I believe Mr. M'Closky has a bill of sale on them. give me the rest that no master but One can disturb---the sleep from which I shall awake free! [Sits. Enjoy reading and share 14 famous quotes about Boucicaults The Octoroon with everyone. I see my little Nimrod yonder, with his Indian companion. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. Dat's right, missus! I will dine on oysters and palomitas and wash them down with white wine. [Enters house.]. Sunny. The Octoroon is appropriately considered a sensation drama, though it received the label retrospectively. George. I don't know when my time on earth will be up; but I DO know that today, I am one day closer. Guess they nebber was born---dem tings! Dora then reappears and bids on Zoe she has sold her own plantation in order to rescue Terrebonne. Paul. Paul has promised me a bear and a deer or two. Ratts. George, O, forgive me! Has not my dear aunt forgotten it---she who had the most right to remember it? Hold on, now! [Wahnotee*rushes on, and at*M'Closky,L.H.]. Scud. Zoe, what have I said to wound you? Scud. Top The Octoroon Quotes I will be thirty years old again in thirty seconds. Scud. Closky tue Paul---kill de child with your tomahawk dar; 'twasn't you, no---ole Pete allus say so. George. If you want a quarrel---. . Thib. Hold on, George Peyton---stand back. Scud. Where did she live and what sort of life did she lead? Calm as a tombstone, and with about as much life. here's a bit of leather; [draws out mail-bags] the mail-bags that were lost! 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. Those free papers ain't worth the sand that's on 'em. When the ship's abroad on the ocean, when the army is before the enemy where in thunder's the law? Scud. EnterSolon*andDidowith coffee-pot, dishes, &c.,*R.U.E. Dido. M'Closky. there again!---no; it was only the wind over the canes. It is such scenes as these that bring disgrace upon our Western life. You'll find him scenting round the rum store, hitched up by the nose. 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! Now fix yourself. Dora. Well, near on five hundred dollars. What's de charge, Mas'r Scudder? His new cotton gins broke down, the steam sugar-mills burst up, until he finished off with his folly what Mr. M'Closky with his knavery began. 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. I wish he would make love to me. 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. George, do you see that hand you hold? One hundred and forty-nine bales. you bomn'ble fry---git out---a gen'leman can't pass for you. I bid seven thousand, which is the last dollar this family possesses. 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! Look here; I can't stand that gal! Lynch him! Pete. Poor Injiun lub our little Paul. The men leave to fetch the authorities, but McClosky escapes. Subject to your life interest and an annuity to Zoe, is it not so? Dido. M'Closky. If there is no bid for the estate and stuff, we'll sell it in smaller lots. [Sits,R. C.]. [*To*Zoe.] No, sar; but dem vagabonds neber take de 'specable straight road, dey goes by de swamp. Sunny. What? Dat's what her soul's gwine to do. Pete. [*Enter*George,C.] Ah! "But, sir, it ain't agreeable." Look there. In comparison, a quadroon would have one quarter African ancestry and a mulatto for the most part has historically implied half African ancestry. Look here, the boy knows and likes me, Judge; let him come my way? [Draws revolver.] Boucicault The Octoroon Quotes & Sayings. No, dear. Job had none of them critters on his plantation, else he'd never ha' stood through so many chapters. ya! Mrs. Pey. [Wakes.] Zoe, will you remain here? Look! Paul. Sunny. drop dat banana! Mrs. P.Hospitality in Europe is a courtesy; here, it is an obligation. this old Liverpool debt---that may cross me---if it only arrive too late---if it don't come by this mail---Hold on! But how pale she looks, and she trembles so. [*ExitM'Closkyand*Pointdexter,R.U.E. Scud. 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. No; a weakness, that's all---a little water. Ah! hark! George. Scud. Stephen King, I have a feeling that demonstrations don't accomplish anything. O, you wanted evidence---you called for proof---Heaven has answered and convicted you. You p'tend to be sorry for Paul, and prize him like dat. EnterPete,with lantern, andScudder,with note book,R. Scud. We work. Ain't that a cure for old age; it kinder lifts the heart up, don't it? [Rising.] Keep quiet, and let's talk sense. [To Jackson.] D'ye hear it---nearer---nearer---ah! How are we sure the boy is dead at all? [Weeping.] Ratts. Come, cheer up, old friend. Guess that you didn't leave anything female in Europe that can lift an eyelash beside that gal. Away with him---put him down the aft hatch, till we rig his funeral. [Goes up.]. You're a man as well as an auctioneer, ain't ye? A photographic plate. Scud. Dora. They are gone!---[*Glancing at*George.] [All salute.]. I'll gib it you! Jackson. What's de use of your takin' it kind, and comfortin' de missus heart, if Minnie dere, and Louise, and Marie, and Julie is to spile it? Ratts. Yes, I'm here, somewhere, interferin'. [Indignantly.] Mrs. P.Terrebonne for sale, and you, sir, will doubtless become its purchaser. ", Pete. Mr. Lafouche, why, how do you do, sir? 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. [R. C.] Pardon me, madam, but do you know these papers? Isn't he sweet! 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. If he stirs, I'll put a bullet through his skull, mighty quick. Darn ye! [Reads.] Ya! I left that siren city as I would have left a beloved woman. Will you hush? You are right, sir; though I shrank from expressing that opinion in her presence, so bluntly. I won't strike him, even with words. can you smile at this moment? Buy me, Mas'r Ratts, do buy me, sar? When Dion Boucicault's tragedy The Octoroon (set on a southern plantation) opened in December of 1859, many viewed the play as sectional propaganda; there was widespread disagreement, however, concerning the side for which the play argued. Stop, Zoe; come here! Hillo! The sun is rising. Yes, we do, ma'am; it's in a darned bad condition. [Music.]. Hold on, you'll see. O, dear, has he suddenly come to his senses? Scene 2 is set in the Bayou, where M'Closky is asleep. what a bright, gay creature she is! [He is borne off in boat, struggling. Boucicault The Octoroon Quotes & Sayings. I'm broke, Solon---I can't stop the Judge. Wahnotee. I dare say, now, that in Europe you have never met any lady more beautiful in person, or more polished in manners, than that girl. Why not! M'Closky. George. M'Closky overhears their conversation, but still vows he'll "have her if it costs [him] [his] life" (44). Paul. 'Tain't no faint---she's a dying, sa; she got pison from old Dido here, this mornin'. Alas! We tought dat de niggers would belong to de ole missus, and if she lost Terrebonne, we must live dere allers, and we would hire out, and bring our wages to ole Missus Peyton. there it comes---it comes---don't you hear a footstep on the dry leaves? 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. Yes; No. Do not weep, George. Denora Boone, Everybody who went to Vietnam carries his or her own version of the war. What more d'ye want---ain't that proof enough? Seeking 2 Actor Team for Spring You may drink dat, Mas'r George. Zoe. Pete. laws a massey! Pete. The men accuse Wahnotee of the murder, and McClosky calls for him to be lynched. O, that's it, is it? Scud. O! I say, Zoe, do you hear that? What! I shall do so if you weep. Ratts. but her image will pass away like a little cloud that obscured your happiness a while---you will love each other; you are both too good not to join your hearts. McClosky has proved that Judge Peyton did not succeed in legally freeing her, as he had meant to do. | Sitemap |. One of them is prepared with a self-developing liquid that I've invented. Go on, Colonel---Colonel Pointdexter, ma'am---the mortgagee, auctioneer, and general agent. Grace. [Dies.---George*lowers her head gently.---Kneels.---Others form picture. 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. Thar's Miss Dora---that girl's in love with you; yes, sir, her eyes are startin' out of her head with it; now her fortune would redeem a good part of this estate. forgive your poor child. [Pete goes down.] No, it won't; we have confessed to Dora that we love each other. George. Scud. Don't say that, ma'am; don't say that to a man that loves another gal. I will, quicker than lightning. I deserve to be a nigger this day---I feel like one, inside. Lafouche. Pete. So we believe; and so mad are the folks around, if they catch the red-skin they'll lynch him sure. [Exit slowly, as if concealing himself,R.U.E. George. Fair or foul, I'll have her---take that home with you! you stan' dar, I see you Ta demine usti. I appeal against your usurped authority. 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, you old turkey-buzzard, saddle my mare. Yes, ma'am, I hold a mortgage over Terrebonne; mine's a ninth, and pretty near covers all the property, except the slaves. M'Closky. Ain't he! You begged me to call this morning. Dora. I must see you no more. Zoe. 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