Judge, you can raise the hull on mortgage---going for half its value. George. Here, stay! [Rushes onM'Closky---M'Closkydraws his knife.]. [*Exit*Dora,L.U.E.] What on earth does that child mean or want? Scud. Dora. [Wahnotee*rushes on, and at*M'Closky,L.H.]. Adam had a job, a place to live, and food that he could provide for his woman. [Enters house.]. I saw a small bottle of cologne and asked if it was for sale. [Throws mail bags down and sits on them,L. C.] Pret, now den go. M'Closky. The last word, an important colloquialism, was misread by the typesetter of the play. Scud. Scud. Jackson. Will you hush? O, here he is. Wahnotee? Hold on a bit. Would you now? He looked in to see what stopped it, and pulled out a big mortgage. Scud. George, O, forgive me! Take that, and defend yourself. [R. C.] That's my son---buy him, Mas'r Ratts; he's sure to sarve you well. Go outside, there; listen to what you hear, then go down to the quarters and tell the boys, for I can't do it. Judge, my friend. 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. Come, the hour is past. I wish he would make love to me. Pete. Zoe. Denora Boone, Everybody who went to Vietnam carries his or her own version of the war. Paul and Wahnotee arrive back with the mailbags and play around with the camera. If she could not accept me, who could? M'Closky. Copyright 2023 Famous Quotes & Sayings. Say, Mas'r Scudder, take me in dat telescope? One hundred and forty-nine bales. M'Closky. Deborah Blake, I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. What's here? Ho! Dat's right, missus! O, Zoe! Ratts. The buyers gather to take away the slaves they have purchased on a steamship. Pete. No, it ain't; because, just then, what does the judge do, but hire another overseer---a Yankee---a Yankee named Salem Scudder. I guess he ain't left home yet, Colonel. Your birth---I know it. Not a bale. *EnterPete, Grace, Minnie, Solon, Dido,and all*Niggers,R.U.E. Pete. Pete. I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. Missey Zoe! Sunny. George. Zoe, tell Pete to give my mare a feed, will ye? dead---and above him---Ah! Jackson. He's yours, Mr. George Peyton. Yes---when I saw him and Miss Zoe galloping through the green sugar crop, and doing ten dollars' worth of damage at every stride, says I, how like his old uncle he do make the dirt fly. Ratts. Come, Mrs. Peyton, take my arm. 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. (p. 221) Daniel J. Siegel. she will har you. I shall do so if you weep. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. Look at 'em, Jacob, for they are honest water from the well of truth. Ratts. Ratts. It's soooo dark. Hold on yere, George Peyton; you sit down there. Hole yer tongues. George. I've been to the negro quarters. 3, Pete, a house servant. this is worth taking to---in this desk the judge used to keep one paper I want---this should be it. [*Aside to*Mrs. [] 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) Scud. [Looks off.] Aunt, I am prouder and happier to be your nephew and heir to the ruins of Terrebonne, than I would have been to have had half Louisiana without you. Ten years ago the judge took as overseer a bit of Connecticut hardware called M'Closky. Ratts. Why should I refer the blame to her? [Advances.] 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. *Enter*Wahnotee,R.;they are all about to rush on him. Dora. Scud. if I stop here, I shall hug her right off. 4, the Octoroon girl, Zoe.". Paul. [Wahnotee*rises and looks atM'Closky---he is in his war paint and fully armed.*]. Hush! M'Closky. Just as soon as we put this cotton on board. O, why did he speak to me at all then? "Ma'am," says I, "the apparatus can't mistake." No; not you---George. Dat you drink is fust rate for red fever. I won't go on; that man's down. 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. No, no! M'Closky,Why not? Scud. 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. the bags are mine---now for it!---[Opens mail-bags.] No---no. D'ye hear that, Jacob? George. Zoe. Now, it ain't no use trying to get mad, Mas'r Scudder. You! Point. Mr. Scudder, good morning. 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. 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! Mr. George is in love with Zoe. Not lawful---no---but I am going to where there is no law---where there is only justice. Dora. 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. He loves me---what of that? Go on, Colonel. If you would pardon the abruptness of the question, I would ask you, Do you think the sincere devotion of my life to make yours happy would succeed? The apparatus can't mistake. Dora. Fellow-citizens, you are convened and assembled here under a higher power than the law. EnterZoe,L.U.E.,very pale, and stands on table.---M'Closkyhitherto has taken no interest in the sale, now turns his chair. Ratts. Point. *EnterPete, Dido, Solon, Minnie,and*Grace. I mean that before you could draw that bowie-knife, you wear down your back, I'd cut you into shingles. All night, as I fled through the cane-brake, I heard footsteps behind me. You're bidding to separate them, Judge. 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. [Eagerly.] Sunny. D'ye call running away from a fellow catching him? Coventry Patmore, if a man has no stability when you meet him, you may want to stay clear of him. If young George Peyton was to make you the same offer, you'd jump at it, pretty darned quick, I guess. Scud. You are a white man; you'll not leave one of your own blood to be butchered by the red-skin? O, my---my heart! That's right. Very bad, aunty; and the heart aches worse, so they can get no rest. Cora, educated in Britain, returns to her fathers plantation in Louisiana to explore the truth about her mother's. "But, sir, it ain't agreeable." Ah! Is that you, Mr. Overseer? [Takes them.] Sunny. European, I suppose. Lafouche. Good morning, Colonel. I'm going to straighten this account clear out. Ratts. Is de folks head bad? [Returns to table and drinks.]. How are we sure the boy is dead at all? He's too fond of thieving and whiskey. That they become fads. Lafouche. [Slowly lowering his whip,] Darn you, red skin, I'll pay you off some day, both of ye. The Oxford English Dictionary cites The Octoroon with the earliest record of the word "mashup" with the quote: "He don't understand; he speaks a mash up of Indian, French, and Mexican." Dora. I fetch as much as any odder cook in Louisiana. For a year or two all went fine. [Aside,C.] Insolent as usual.---[Aloud.] Pete. Zoe. Ugh' ach! Top a bit! That one black drop of blood burns in her veins and lights up her heart like a foggy sun. 2, the yellow girl Grace, with two children---Saul, aged four, and Victoria five." Paul! I ain't no count, sar. Scud. if this is so, she's mine! Jackson. Be calm---darn the things; the proceeds of this sale won't cover the debts of the estate. Scud. Well when I say go, den lift dis rag like dis, see! Mrs. P.O, George,---my son, let me call you,---I do not speak for my own sake, nor for the loss of the estate, but for the poor people here; they will be sold, divided, and taken away---they have been born here. O, Zoe, my child! How can you ask that vulgar ruffian to your table? Ratts. Yes, we do, ma'am; it's in a darned bad condition. ], Scud. M'Closky overhears their conversation, but still vows he'll "have her if it costs [him] [his] life" (44). No; but I loved you so, I could not bear my fate; and then I stood your heart and hers. Nebber mind, sar, we bring good news---it won't spile for de keeping. Wal, as it consarns you, perhaps you better had. [*Enter*George,C.] Ah! that you will not throw me from you like a poisoned thing! This gal and them children belong to that boy Solon there. Enjoy reading and share 1 famous quotes about The Octoroonwith everyone. I don't care, they were blue this morning, but it don't signify now. George. What a find! I don't tink you will any more, but dis here will; 'cause de family spile Dido, dey has. Dat's de laziest nigger on dis yere property. Hello! How long before we start, captain? Darn it, when I see a woman in trouble, I feel like selling the skin off my back. [Opens desk.] George says he can "overcome the obstacle" (43), but Zoe protests that they cannot be together. Zoe. [Returning with rifle.] Dar, do ye hear dat, ye mis'able darkies, dem gals is worth a boat load of kinder men dem is. Paul. Zoe (an Octoroon Girl, free, the Natural Child of the late Judge by a Quadroon Slave) Mrs. J. H. Allen. Dora, you are right. George. M'Closky. And I remained here to induce you to offer that heart to Dora! Ratts. He sleeps---no; I see a light. Lynch him! 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. I know you'll excuse it. Peyton.] George. Boucicaults The Octoroon famous quotes & sayings: Ivan Glasenberg: We work. Dido. M'Closky. Peyton.] George, leave me! forgive your poor child. [Aside.] Dora. no violence---the critter don't know what we mean. Here are evidences of the crime; this rum-bottle half emptied---this photographic apparatus smashed---and there are marks of blood and footsteps around the shed. George R R Martin. The world, Zoe, the free struggle of minds and hands, if before me; the education bestowed on me by my dear uncle is a noble heritage which no sheriff can seize; with that I can build up a fortune, spread a roof over the heads I love, and place before them the food I have earned; I will work---. 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? Omnes. Are they? Scudder. Zoe. *] What a good creature she is. you're looking well. M'Closky hates Scudder in return, especially because they both love Zoe, Mr. Peyton's "octoroon" daughter, Zoe. My dear mother---Mr. Scudder---you teach me what I ought to do; if Miss Sunnyside will accept me as I am, Terrebonne shall be saved; I will sell myself, but the slaves shall be protected. Scud. Excuse me; one of the principal mortgagees has made the demand. No; but you, aunty, you are wise---you know every plant, don't you, and what it is good for? Come, Judge, pick up. Well, sir, what does this Scudder do but introduces his inventions and improvements on this estate. Herein the true melodramatic hijinks that first defined "The Octoroon" ensue: a young, nouveau plantation owner George (Gardner in whiteface) is trying to save the remnants of his family's. Mrs. P.Read, George. Don't say that, ma'am; don't say that to a man that loves another gal. Paul. "No, ma'am, the truth seldom is.". Top, sar! ], Pete. dem darkies! Dora. Ratts. [Leads her forward---aside.] You're a man as well as an auctioneer, ain't ye? [Speaking in his ear-trumpet.] He who can love so well is honest---don't speak ill of poor Wahnotee. What say ye? Copyright 2023 Famous Quotes & Sayings. Squire Sunnyside, you've got a pretty bit o' land, Squire. Gustave Flaubert, Not that anyone short of God Almighty could have gotten Marcus Senior to rest and take it easy. "Sign that," says the overseer; "it's only a formality." Just as McClosky points out the blood on Wahnotee's tomahawk, the oldest slave, Pete, comes to give them the photographic plate which has captured McClosky's deed. Pete. Ratts. ], M'Closky. I lost them in the cedar swamp---again they haunted my path down the bayou, moving as I moved, resting when I rested---hush! Take your hand down---take it down. You know you can't be jealous of a poor creature like me. Lafouche. I hate 'em. Well, he has the oddest way of making love. If he would only propose to marry me I would accept him, but he don't know that, and he will go on fooling, in his slow European way, until it is too late. Scud. M'Closky. Ivan Glasenberg, Very few things hurt my young ego more than an Asian female openly shaming me for my Asian-ness. Zoe. [ExitMrs. PeytonandSunnysideto house. 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. You want to hurt yourself. Point. George. [Scudder*takes out watch.*]. 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. The word octoroon signifies a person of one-eighth African ancestry. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. Then I will go to a parlor house and have them top up a bathtub with French champagne and I will strip and dive into it with a bare-assed blonde and a redhead and an octoroon and the four of us will get completely presoginated and laugh and let long bubbly farts at hell and baptize each other in the name of the Trick, the Prick, and the Piper-Heidsick. | Privacy Policy No, sar; but dem vagabonds neber take de 'specable straight road, dey goes by de swamp. Come, Mr. Thibodeaux, a man has a chance once in his life---here's yours. Lafouche. I see my little Nimrod yonder, with his Indian companion. Curse their old families---they cut me---a bilious, conceited, thin lot of dried up aristocracy. [Reading bill.] Nothing; but you must learn what I thought you already knew. Hole yer tongue, Dido. [They approach again.]. [Zoe sings without,L.]. 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. [*Gives her coffee-pot to hold, and hobbles off, followed bySolonand*Dido,R.U.E.], Sunny. Consarn those Liverpool English fellers, why couldn't they send something by the last mail? I left that siren city as I would have left a beloved woman. laws a massey! And so you really kept those foolish letters? 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! [M'Closky*strikes him on the head---he falls dead.*]. I say, Zoe, do you hear that? Hold on! Poor child! That is the ineffaceable curse of Cain. Paul. M'Closky. None o' ye ign'rant niggars could cry for yerselves like dat. George still loves Zoe, telling her: "[T]his knowledge brings no revolt to my heart, and I . the apparatus can't lie. Gentlemen, we are all acquainted with the circumstances of this girl's position, and I feel sure that no one here will oppose the family who desires to redeem the child of our esteemed and noble friend, the late Judge Peyton. [*Hands papers to*Mrs. Scud. [Sees tomahawk in Wahnotee's belt---draws it out and examines it.] Dido. Mrs. P.No, George; say you wept like a man. Pete. When she goes along, she just leaves a streak of love behind her. My father gives me freedom---at least he thought so. [*Seeing*Dora.] Zoe is your child by a quadroon slave, and you didn't free her; blood! [Puts his head under the darkening apron.] I must see you no more. Stop, Zoe; come here! You have been tried---honestly tried and convicted. Why you tremble so? Zoe, listen to me, then. come home---there are strangers in the house. Pete. This is folly, Dora. George. Do I? 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.] Dora. Hush! Captain, you've loaded up here until the boat is sunk so deep in the mud she won't float. 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, you'll see. Dora. Wahnotee Patira na sepau assa wigiran. I don't know; she may as well hear the hull of it. My love? [falls on her knees, with her face in her hands] no---no master, but one. [Aside to Zoe.] Top, you varmin! Now, what have you done to show them the distinction? Author: Dahlia Lithwick. have I fixed ye? shall we have one law for the red-skin and another for the white? Nebber supply no more, sar---nebber dance again. O! Grace. must I learn from these poor wretches how much I owed, how I ought to pay the debt? 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. a slave! Is it on such evidence you'd hang a human being? ZOE played by an octoroon actress, a white actress, a quadroon actress, a biracial actress, a multi-racial actress, or an actress of color who can pass as an octoroon. "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). Your eyes are red. M'Closky. "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---. Point. 'Tain't you he has injured, 'tis the white man, whose laws he has offended. Here you are, in the very attitude of your crime! Mr. Lafouche, why, how do you do, sir? Paul. No, it won't; we have confessed to Dora that we love each other. That's enough. 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. Gosh, wouldn't I like to hab myself took! Hold on! Hillo! 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? Zoe. Dis way, gen'l'men; now Solon---Grace---dey's hot and tirsty---sangaree, brandy, rum. If we can't behave like Christians, let's try and act like gentlemen. No, sir; you have omitted the Octoroon girl, Zoe. Mr. Sunnyside, I can't do this job of showin' round the folks; my stomach goes agin it. Mrs. P.I expect an important letter from Liverpool; away with you, Paul; bring the mail-bags here. [George*tries to regain his gun;Wahnoteerefuses to give it up;Paul,quietly takes it from him and remonstrates with him.*]. George. The play was adapted by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins as An Octoroon in 2014. Scud. Point. So we believe; and so mad are the folks around, if they catch the red-skin they'll lynch him sure. Why don't he return to his nation out West? Scud. that he isn't to go on fooling in his slow---. Zoe. See Injiun; look dar [shows him plate], see dat innocent: look, dar's de murderer of poor Paul. Hillo, darkey, hand me a smash dar. Keep quiet, and let's talk sense. Look there, jurymen. Scud. Scud. O! 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. don't think too hardly of your poor father. George. Scud. Why, judge, wasn't you lawyer enough to know that while a judgment stood against you it was a lien on your slaves? Hooraw! Dora Sunnyside (only Daughter and Heiress to Sunnyside, a Southern Belle) Mrs. Stoddart. Zoe, you are suffering---your lips are white---your cheeks are flushed. He stood gazing in wonder at her work-basket as if it was something extraordinary. I say, I'd like to say summit soft to the old woman; perhaps it wouldn't go well, would it? He is incapable of any but sincere and pure feelings---so are you. Zoe. Scud. What was this here Scudder? is dat him creeping dar? [Sits down.] That Indian is a nuisance. And we all The judge drew money like Bourbon whiskey from a barrel, and never turned off the tap. 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. Scud. Minnie, fan me, it is so nice---and his clothes are French, ain't they? Pete, as you came here, did you pass Paul and the Indian with the letter-bags? Stan' back, boys! ", Pete. It's surely worth the love that dictated it; here are the papers and accounts. That's just what you must do, and do it at once, or it will be too late. Go on, Pete, you've waked up the Christian here, and the old hoss responds. We can leave this country, and go far away where none can know. I will! No---in kind---that is, in protection, forbearance, gentleness; in all them goods that show the critters the difference between the Christian and the savage. [Sighing.] ---Cane-brake Bayou.---Bank,C.---Triangle Fire,R. C.---Canoe,C.---M'Closky*discovered asleep. [Seated,R. C.] Fan me, Minnie.---[Aside.] Lynch him! Mrs. P.Why didn't you mention this before? What? This old nigger, the grandfather of the boy you murdered, speaks for you---don't that go through you? Ratts. Top The Octoroon Quotes I will be thirty years old again in thirty seconds. [Takes out his knife. Scud. M'Closky. [ExitPeteand all theNegroes,slowly,R.U.E. *Enter*Zoe[supposed to have overheard the last scene], L.U.E. Zoe. We work. 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. What in thunder should I do with you and those devils on board my boat? M'Closky. 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. Not a picayune. Mrs. P.Terrebonne for sale, and you, sir, will doubtless become its purchaser. you remind me so much of your uncle, the judge. Scud. [A pause.] O, golly! Jodie Sweetin, Come down and eat chicken with me beautiful. Hillo! Scud. Act II Summary. M'Closky. [Draws revolver.] Sunny. No! What's this, eh? It concerns the residents of a Louisiana plantation called Terrebonne, and sparked debates about the abolition of slavery and the role of theatre in politics. M'Closky. You will not forget poor Zoe! 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