Hold on, George Peyton---stand back. Now, Jacob M'Closky, you despise me because you think I'm a fool; I despise you because I know you to be a knave. [2] Among antebellum melodramas, it was considered second in popularity only to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852).[3]. Job had none of them critters on his plantation, else he'd never ha' stood through so many chapters. I've got hold of the tail of a rat---come out. Because it was the truth; and I had rather be a slave with a free soul, than remain free with a slavish, deceitful heart. Pete. [Pete goes down.] Pete, you old turkey-buzzard, saddle my mare. 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.*. I don't know; she may as well hear the hull of it. Good morning, Colonel. Point. Gen'l'men, my colored frens and ladies, dar's mighty bad news gone round. [*Seizes whip, and holds*Paul. Take my shawl, Zoe. This blow has staggered me some. I will take the best room in the Grand Central or the Orndorff Hotel. It contains elements of Romanticism and melodrama. Lafouche. I'd be darned glad if somebody would tear my past life away from me. George---George---hush---they come! Scud. M'Closky. Seeking 2 Actor Team for Spring No, I hesitated because an attachment I had formed before I had the pleasure of seeing you had not altogether died out. Ratts. I deserve to be a nigger this day---I feel like one, inside. Zoe. Wahnotee. two forms! Then I will go to the Red Light or the Monte Carlo and dance the floor afire. You know you can't be jealous of a poor creature like me. [*Goes*L.] Paul reste el! [Shows plate. How can she then ask her father to free me? blaze away! here's a bit of leather; [draws out mail-bags] the mail-bags that were lost! Ivan Glasenberg, Very few things hurt my young ego more than an Asian female openly shaming me for my Asian-ness. 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? Dora. I must be going---it is late. And all for the sake of that old woman and that young puppy---eh? Scud. M'Closky. He is incapable of any but sincere and pure feelings---so are you. Point. Yes, missus. [Wahnotee*rushes on, and at*M'Closky,L.H.]. Dat's de laziest nigger on dis yere property. Dido. One thousand bid. | About Us Coventry Patmore, if a man has no stability when you meet him, you may want to stay clear of him. George. Zoe. Zoe, I love you none the less; this knowledge brings no revolt to my heart, and I can overcome the obstacle. Zoe. Ben Tolosa You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. he does not know, he does not know! If you bid me do so I will obey you---. Gain full access to show guides, character breakdowns, auditions, monologues and more! O, dear, has he suddenly come to his senses? And we all got rich from it, so, you know, there's a benefit from it. 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. M'Closky. Scudder. We've had talk enough; now for proof. Not lawful---no---but I am going to where there is no law---where there is only justice. Hold on now, Jacob; we've got to figure on that---let us look straight at the thing. Dear George, you now see what a miserable thing I am. Look dar! What, on Terrebonne! The tragic ending was used for American audiences, to avoid portraying a mixed marriage.[4]. Zoe. Don't b'lieve it, Mas'r George,---no. The judge drew money like Bourbon whiskey from a barrel, and never turned off the tap. The Octoroon (1913) - Quotes - IMDb Menu Edit The Octoroon (1913) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. Important Quotes. Yah! Scud. Ratts. George. The Steamer floats on at back, burning. Pete. Scud. 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. Gosh, wouldn't I like to hab myself took! Hush! The Octoroon is a play by Dion Boucicault that opened in 1859 at The Winter Garden Theatre, New York City. The machine can't err---you may mistake your phiz but the apparatus don't." Zoe. Where did she live and what sort of life did she lead? It's dem black trash, Mas'r George; dis ere property wants claring; dem's getting too numerous round; when I gets time I'll kill some on 'em, sure! Away with him---put him down the aft hatch, till we rig his funeral. Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. I hope we don't intrude on the family. Zoe. Scud. Ratts. Zoe. stan' round thar! Go on, Colonel. 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. Only three of his plays were to have an American setting, The Octoroon is one of these. 49, Paul, a quadroon boy, aged thirteen. 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. Yes; No. I don't think you capable of anything else than---. ], George. Ratts. 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. Zoe. Burn! Sunny. Lafouche. [Draws revolver.] Ratts. Top a bit! Now, my culled brethren, gird up your lines, and listen---hold on yer bref---it's a comin. I mean that before you could draw that bowie-knife, you wear down your back, I'd cut you into shingles. You told me it produced a long, long sleep. Well, is he not thus afflicted now? Zoe, the more I see of George Peyton the better I like him; but he is too modest---that is a very impertinent virtue in a man. Ratts. You begged me to call this morning. Top, sar! Hold on! George. M'Closky. Thib. If I must die, give me up to the law; but save me from the tomahawk. "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." [*Hands papers to*Mrs. Scud. 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. no violence---the critter don't know what we mean. Why you out in de swamp dis time ob night---you catch de fever sure---you is all wet. Hee! [Conceals himself.]. Scud. Not a picayune. 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. Terrebonne is yours. M'Closky. It is in the hearts of brave men, who can tell right from wrong, and from whom justice can't be bought. M'Closky. Scene.---The Wharf, The Steamer "Magnolia" alongside,L.;a bluff rock,R.U.E. Ratts*discovered, superintending the loading of ship. Scud. 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! The New York Times noted 'its striking merits as a sensational drama' It's soooo dark. Mrs. P.I fear that the property is so involved that the strictest economy will scarcely recover it. Aunt, when he died, two years ago, I read over those letters of his, and if I didn't cry like a baby---. Let me hide them till I teach my heart. No, you goose! Zoe. Come on, Pete, we shan't reach the house before midday. Hark! [*Takes Indian's tomahawk and steals to*Paul. Don't be afraid; it ain't going for that, Judge. I'd cut my throat---or yours---yours I'd prefer. Well, near on five hundred dollars. Point. *] Now, give it to me. I can go no farther. Sunny. Well, he cut that for the photographing line. Come, form a court then, choose a jury---we'll fix this varmin. *EnterPete, Pointdexter, Jackson, Lafouche,and*Caillou,R.U.E. Pete. Zoe. Den say de missus, "'Tain't for de land I keer, but for dem poor niggars---dey'll be sold---dat wot stagger me." Scene 2 is set in the Bayou, where M'Closky is asleep. Scud. [Dances.]. "No. Because, Miss Sunnyside, I have not learned to lie. Hole yer tongues. You're trembling so, you'll fall down directly. Here 'tis---now you give one timble-full---dat's nuff. Synopsis. All Rights Reserved. Boucicault The Octoroon Quotes & Sayings. whew! No---no. | Sitemap |. Point. There's one name on the list of slaves scratched, I see. An Octoroon is a play written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. What's the law? Dora. Git away dere! Closky tue Paul---kill de child with your tomahawk dar; 'twasn't you, no---ole Pete allus say so. what a bright, gay creature she is! No, dear. I arrived just too late, he had grabbed the prize as I came up. 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. [Points with knife off,R.] D'ye see that tree?---it's called a live oak, and is a native here; beside it grows a creeper; year after year that creeper twines its long arms round and round the tree---sucking the earth dry all about its roots---living on its life---overrunning its branches, until at last the live oak withers and dies out. Poor little Paul---poor little nigger! O, Mas'r Scudder, he didn't cry zackly; both ob his eyes and cheek look like de bad Bayou in low season---so dry dat I cry for him. give me the rest that no master but One can disturb---the sleep from which I shall awake free! 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. M'Closky. Hillo! [R. C.] Pardon me, madam, but do you know these papers? Mrs. P.Why, George, I never suspected this! I never killed a man in my life---and civilization is so strong in me I guess I couldn't do it---I'd like to, though! But for Heaven's sake go---here comes the crowd. Mrs. P.So, Pete, you are spoiling those children as usual! ah! ExitSolon,R.U.E.] Dem little niggers is a judgment upon dis generation. Dora. Mr. Peyton! Now don't stir. George. I do, but I can't do it. Guess that you didn't leave anything female in Europe that can lift an eyelash beside that gal. They are gone!---[*Glancing at*George.] What court of law would receive such evidence? Be the first to contribute! Even a letter, promising something---such is the feeling round amongst the planters. Despite the happiness Zoe stands dying and the play ends with her death on the sitting-room couch and George kneeling beside her. [Aside to Sunnyside.] [Opens desk.] Take that, and defend yourself. Poor fellow, he has lost all. Stop; this would. Dora then reappears and bids on Zoe she has sold her own plantation in order to rescue Terrebonne. The Judge is a little deaf. Ah! Darn that girl; she makes me quiver when I think of her; she's took me for all I'm worth. EnterPaul,R.U.E.,withIndian,who goes up. [Speaking in his ear-trumpet.] 1, Solon, a guess boy, and good waiter.". Scud. You got four of dem dishes ready. Mrs. P.Why didn't you mention this before? [Rushes onM'Closky---M'Closkydraws his knife.]. Yes---me and Co.---we done it; but, as you were senior partner in the concern, I reckon you got the big lick. 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. 2, the yellow girl Grace, with two children---Saul, aged four, and Victoria five." Dat you drink is fust rate for red fever. Scud. 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---. Mrs. P.Hospitality in Europe is a courtesy; here, it is an obligation. Sunny. See also Trivia | Goofs | Crazy Credits | Alternate Versions | Connections | Soundtracks Getting Started | Contributor Zone George. Mrs. P.George, you are incorrigible. M'Closky. Hey! E. Paul. Letters! Point. Pete. who has been teasing you? O! Lafouche. Scud. Pete. Sunny. [Enters inner room,R.U.E.]. ], Scud. I'll trouble you for that piece of baccy, Judge---thank you---so, gentlemen, as life is short, we'll start right off. Scud. My home, my home! You are right, sir; though I shrank from expressing that opinion in her presence, so bluntly. I saw a small bottle of cologne and asked if it was for sale. Point. I'll murder this yer crowd, [*He chases*Childrenabout; they leap over railing at back. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. So! he's allers in for it. The Octoroon Act II Summary & Analysis. He loves Zoe, and has found out that she loves him. And twenty thousand bid. The Steamer moves off---fire kept up---M'Closky*re-enters,*R.,*swimming on.*. Scud. Give us evidence. ], M'Closky. Guess it kill a dozen---nebber try. Sunny. Do you know what that is? 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? We're ready; the jury's impanelled---go ahead---who'll be accuser? Scud. Look there. Yours, &c, James Brown." Sunny. We've caught this murdering Injiun, and are going to try him. *EnterPete, Dido, Solon, Minnie,and*Grace. George. Grace. Mrs. P.[L. C.] My nephew is not acquainted with our customs in Louisiana, but he will soon understand. Yes, I'm here, somewhere, interferin'. [GoesR.,*and looks atWahnotee,L.,through the camera;Wahnoteesprings back with an expression of alarm.*]. Evidence! Paul. EnterSolon*andDidowith coffee-pot, dishes, &c.,*R.U.E. Dido. Be the first to contribute! Come along; she har what we say, and she's cryin' for us. [Rising.] Fire!---one, two, three. Dora said you were slow; if she could hear you now---. He's yours, Mr. George Peyton. [C.] I'm sorry to intrude, but the business I came upon will excuse me. "But, mister, that ain't my nose." yonder goes the Indian! [He is borne off in boat, struggling. Debbel's in de pail! Mrs. P.You are out early this morning, George. Zoe. I dare say you left at least a dozen beloved women there, at the same time. I love one who is here, and he loves me---George. good, good nurse: you will, you will. Yes, ma'am, I hold a mortgage over Terrebonne; mine's a ninth, and pretty near covers all the property, except the slaves. For a year or two all went fine. M'Closky. D'ye hear it---nearer---nearer---ah! [Minnie runs off.] Scud. I don't tink you will any more, but dis here will; 'cause de family spile Dido, dey has. [Sits down.] Scud. Bless'ee, Missey Zoe, here it be. Mr. Sunnyside, I can't do this job of showin' round the folks; my stomach goes agin it. The Octoroon or The Lily of Louisiana is a dark tale of crime, race and slavery. Farewell, Dora. See also I can never sleep now without dreaming. Dion Boucicault Quotes - BrainyQuote. 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. It wants an hour yet to daylight---here is Pete's hut---[Knocks.] He don't understand; he speaks a mash-up of Indian and Mexican. The apparatus can't mistake. George. You see dat hole in dar, sar. Darn me, if I couldn't raise thirty thousand on the envelope alone, and ten thousand more on the post-mark. I must operate and take my own likeness too---how debbel I do dat? If she ain't worth her weight in sunshine you may take one of my fingers off, and choose which you like. The injiun! Paying the iron price. [Shows plate to jury.] George. Lafouche. Sunny. Jacobs-Jenkins reframes Boucicault's play using its original characters and plot, speaking much of Boucicault's dialogue, and critiques its portrayal of race using Brechtian devices. [Retires.]. Minnie (a Quadroon Slave) Miss Walters. Who's you to set up screching?---be quiet! Copyright 2023 Famous Quotes & Sayings. I will! Now, it ain't no use trying to get mad, Mas'r Scudder. M'Closky. 3, Pete, a house servant. Ratts. "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. [Indignantly.] Zoe. Come, then, but if I catch you drinkin', O, laws a mussey, you'll get snakes! [Aside.] Hold on, now! [*Throws bowie-knife to*M'Closky.] He looked in to see what stopped it, and pulled out a big mortgage. George, O, forgive me! you're looking well. Five hundred dollars!---[*To*Thibodeaux.] [Exit, with a low, wailing, suffocating cry,L.U.E. *EnterM'Closky, Lafouche, Jackson, Sunnyslde,and*Pointdexter,R.U.E. Point. Scud. Race or not, it's a story about . That one black drop of blood burns in her veins and lights up her heart like a foggy sun. Pete. I left that siren city as I would have left a beloved woman. Dora, oblivious to George's lack of affection for her, enlists Zoe's help to win him over. I'm broke, Solon---I can't stop the Judge. Yes, for I'd rather be black than ungrateful! [Putting it on the table,R. C.]. Judy Collins, You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music." Ha, ha! I brought half this ruin on this family, with my all-fired improvements. Those free papers ain't worth the sand that's on 'em. I appeal against your usurped authority. he's coming this way, fighting with his Injiun. [*Exit*Mrs. Peyton*and*George,L.U.E.] A slave! Mr. Scudder, good morning. It was those quiet moments alone when I just hated the person I had become. This New York Times article cautions its readers against jumping to conclusions about Boucicault's intentions in the writing of the play and downplays . European, I suppose. Scud. Ten years ago the judge took as overseer a bit of Connecticut hardware called M'Closky. I thought I heard the sound of a paddle in the water. Say what you know---not what you heard. He's an Injiun---fair play. Dere's a dish of pen-pans---jess taste, Mas'r George---and here's fried bananas; smell 'em, do, sa glosh. Ay, ay! Pete. Dear Dora, try to understand it with your heart. Curse their old families---they cut me---a bilious, conceited, thin lot of dried up aristocracy. Do you want me to stop here and bid for it? this old Liverpool debt---that may cross me---if it only arrive too late---if it don't come by this mail---Hold on! 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. he is here. To "Mrs. Peyton, Terrebonne, Louisiana, United States." Scud. No other cause to hate---to envy me---to be jealous of me---eh? The Octoroon is appropriately considered a sensation drama, though it received the label retrospectively. Paul. Ten miles we've had to walk, because some blamed varmin onhitched our dug-out. he tinks it's a gun. M'Closky. [Eagerly.] Dora. [George*tries to regain his gun;Wahnoteerefuses to give it up;Paul,quietly takes it from him and remonstrates with him.*]. 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. O, no; Mas'r Scudder, don't leave Mas'r Closky like dat---don't, sa---'tain't what good Christian should do. You seem already familiar with the names of every spot on the estate. When I am dead she will not be jealous of your love for me, no laws will stand between us. Lynch him! 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. What's he doing; is he asleep? [Wahnotee*raises apron and runs off,*L.U.E.Paul*sits for his picture---M'Closkyappears from*R.U.E.]. [Wrenches it from him.] Work! [M'Closky*strikes him on the head---he falls dead.*]. Salem's looking a kinder hollowed out. What's come ob de child? What, Zoe! [Sighing.] You see how easily I have become reconciled to my fate---so it will be with you. Sunny. Am I late? Pete. He has a strange way of showing it. and will despise me, spurn me, loathe me, when he learns who, what, he has so loved.---[Aloud.] M'Closky. To be alive is to be breathing. [Makes sign thatPaulwas killed by a blow on the head.]. No, Pete; no, I won't. In comparison, a quadroon would have one quarter African ancestry and a mulatto for the most part has historically implied half African ancestry. Mrs. P.My dear George, you are left in your uncle's will heir to this estate. Zoe. "No. [Slowly lowering his whip,] Darn you, red skin, I'll pay you off some day, both of ye. Top Quadroon And Octoroon Quotes. Make bacon of me, you young whelp. What, Mr. Ratts, are you going to invest in swamps? And I remained here to induce you to offer that heart to Dora! *Enter*Wahnotee,R.;they are all about to rush on him. To-morrow they'll bloom the same---all will be here as now, and I shall be cold. He didn't ought to bid against a lady. ", Zoe. Hello! He who can love so well is honest---don't speak ill of poor Wahnotee. M'Closky. Pete. Good morning, Mrs. Peyton. she look as though she war gwine to have a tooth drawed! George. Mrs. P.The child was a favorite of the judge, who encouraged his gambols. Then I'd like to hire a lady to go to auction and buy my hands. [They get on table.]. [Sees tomahawk in Wahnotee's belt---draws it out and examines it.] What's here? 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. what will become of her when I am gone? Zoe, explain yourself---your language fills me with shapeless fears. Hillo! this is worth taking to---in this desk the judge used to keep one paper I want---this should be it. Scud. As they exit,M'Closkyrises from behind rock,R.,*and looks after them. "But, sir, it ain't agreeable." [Kicks pail from underPete,*and lets him down.*]. you remind me so much of your uncle, the judge. 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