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Research Playwrights, Librettists, Composers and Lyricists. Denora Boone, Everybody who went to Vietnam carries his or her own version of the war. ], George. George. M'Closky. Excuse me, I'll light a cigar. I saw the mail-bags lying in the shed this morning. Zoe. Scud. [GoesR.,*and looks atWahnotee,L.,through the camera;Wahnoteesprings back with an expression of alarm.*]. [Music.]. At New Orleans, they said, "She's pretty, very pretty, but no brains." [Zoe*helps her. | Sitemap |. What am goin' to cum ob us! Say, Mas'r Scudder, s'pose we go in round by de quarters and raise de darkies, den dey cum long wid us, and we 'proach dat ole house like Gin'ral Jackson when he took London out dar. Pete. M'Closky,Why not? Let her pass! [To Jackson.] I heard voices. This gal and them children belong to that boy Solon there. *EnterPaul,wrestling with*Wahnotee,R.3. Pete. [Outside,R.] Whar's Missus---whar's Mas'r George? Good morning, Mrs. Peyton. | About Us Scud. The Steamer floats on at back, burning. Mas'r George---ah, no, sar---don't buy me---keep your money for some udder dat is to be sold. With Dora's wealth, he explains, Terrebonne will not be sold and the slaves will not have to be separated. 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. (p. 221) Daniel J. Siegel. [Calls off.] Nebber supply no more, sar---nebber dance again. Scud. Pete. Pete. Top Quadroon And Octoroon Quotes. M'Closky. How came they in your possession? 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. There are no witnesses but a rum bottle and an old machine. She's won this race agin the white, anyhow; it's too late now to start her pedigree. [Pours out.] Scud. O, aunt! She loves him! George. George. Zoe. Scud. how sad she looks now she has no resource. Darn me, if I couldn't raise thirty thousand on the envelope alone, and ten thousand more on the post-mark. The Steamer moves off---fire kept up---M'Closky*re-enters,*R.,*swimming on.*. [*Exit*Mrs. Peyton*and*George,L.U.E.] A slave! there again!---no; it was only the wind over the canes. Ho! Pete. "Whar's Paul?" I'll have her, if it costs me my life! I'm responsible for the crittur---go on. George, you may without a blush confess your love for the Octoroon! Are they? Lafouche. She didn't mind how kind old judge was to her; and Solon, too, he'll holler, and break de ole lady's heart. Stand around and let me pass---room thar! Poor Injiun lub our little Paul. The buyers gather to take away the slaves they have purchased on a steamship. [Dies.---George*lowers her head gently.---Kneels.---Others form picture. she look as though she war gwine to have a tooth drawed! [Stands with his hand extended towards the house, and tableau.]. Sunny. Don't be a fool; they'd kill you, and then take her, just as soon as---stop; Old Sunnyside, he'll buy her! Ya! Why, Minnie, why don't you run when you hear, you lazy crittur? Do not weep, George. I'm waiting on your fifty thousand bid. Well, what d'ye say, Lafouche---d'ye smile? Yes, near the quick there is a faint blue mark. O, you horrible man! My dear husband never kept any accounts, and we scarcely know in what condition the estate really is. George. Mrs. P.Terrebonne for sale, and you, sir, will doubtless become its purchaser. I couldn't bear to see him put to work. George. Do you think they would live here on such terms? The Octoroons have no apparent trace of the Negro in their appearance but still are subject to the legal disabilities which attach them to the condition of blacks. Ain't he! Sorry I can't return the compliment. Point. Nothing; but you must learn what I thought you already knew. 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.*. What's he doing; is he asleep? He's an Injiun---fair play. 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. Well when I say go, den lift dis rag like dis, see! Ha, ha!---[Calls.] Pete. Lafouche. then I shall be sold!---sold! Scud. If young George Peyton was to make you the same offer, you'd jump at it, pretty darned quick, I guess. [Knocks.] Take your hand down---take it down. What! I'm afraid to die; yet I am more afraid to live. Pete, speak to the red-skin. Mrs. P.George, I can't spare Paul for an hour or two; he must run over to the landing; the steamer from New Orleans passed up the river last night, and if there's a mail they have thrown it ashore. Scene.---The Wharf, The Steamer "Magnolia" alongside,L.;a bluff rock,R.U.E. Ratts*discovered, superintending the loading of ship. Hark! M'Closky. Boucicault adapted the play from the novel The Quadroon by Thomas Mayne Reid (1856). Even a letter, promising something---such is the feeling round amongst the planters. 'Cos I's skeered to try! George. Pete. I lost them in the cedar swamp---again they haunted my path down the bayou, moving as I moved, resting when I rested---hush! Scud. [*To*Wahnotee.] I'll put the naughty parts in French. What was her past? That boy and the Indian have gone down to the landing for the post-bags; they'll idle on the way as usual; my mare will take me across the swamp, and before they can reach the shed, I'll have purified them bags---ne'er a letter shall show this mail. Dora. Deborah Blake, I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. If it was the ghost of that murdered boy haunting me! Why, I was dreaming---curse it! Let me proceed by illustration. Ya! O, my---my heart! He said so. No, no---life is good for young ting like you. Do you know what the niggers round here call that sight? [Examines paper.]. Dora. Thank ye; thank ye. That judgment still exists; under it and others this estate is sold to-day. Zoe. Ya!---as he? The Injiun means that he buried him there! [Makes sign thatPaulwas killed by a blow on the head.]. Zoe. What's come ob de child? O! Improvements---anything, from a stay-lace to a fire-engine. [Enters house.]. now mind. The murder is captured on Scudder's photographic apparatus. 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. Keep quiet, and let's talk sense. Ah! Here's the Picayune [producing paper] with the advertisement. Scud. Never, aunt! M'Closky. What? Zoe. Paul! Scud. M'Closky. Dido. [A pause.] What, Zoe! Brian Tracy, How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. George. I shall endeavor not to be jealous of the past; perhaps I have no right to be. The auctioneer arrives, along with prospective buyers, McClosky among them. Scud. One thousand bid. Dora. O! It is certain, madam; the judge was negligent, and doubtless forgot this small formality. George. "No. No, ma'am; here's the plan of it. How can you ask that vulgar ruffian to your table? We must excuse Scudder, friends. [Raises hammer.] It is an adaptation of Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon , which premiered in 1859. Scud. He didn't ought to bid against a lady. Pete. laws a massey! Scud. Stephen King, I have a feeling that demonstrations don't accomplish anything. Hold on! Scud. Ask the color in your face; d'ye think I can't read you, like a book? Make bacon of me, you young whelp. M'Closkyruns off,L.1. M'Closky. this infernal letter would have saved all. tink anybody wants you to cry? black as nigger; clar as ice. Race or not, it's a story about . I say, then, air you honest men? Ratts. Jacob M'Closky, 'twas you murdered that boy! O, how d'ye do, sir? Go on, Colonel---Colonel Pointdexter, ma'am---the mortgagee, auctioneer, and general agent. *EnterPete, Dido, Solon, Minnie,and*Grace. ExitSolon,R.U.E.] Dem little niggers is a judgment upon dis generation. Letters! Your birth---I know it. war's de crowd gone? Scud. I tell ye dar's somebody in dar. [Brings hammer down.] Scud. Sign up today to unlock amazing theatre resources and opportunities. that you will not throw me from you like a poisoned thing! Come, Zoe, don't be a fool; I'd marry you if I could, but you know I can't; so just say what you want. my dear, dear father! who has been teasing you? shall we have one law for the red-skin and another for the white? 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. Zoe. What's this, eh? Zoe, listen to me, then. 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. Yes, sir; they were the free papers of the girl Zoe; but they were in my husband's secretary. [Darts between them.] Could you see the roots of my hair you would see the same dark, fatal mark. [DrivesChildrenaway; in escaping they tumble against and trip upSolon,who falls with tray; theChildrensteal the bananas and rolls that fall about.]. [C.] My dear aunt, why do you not move from this painful scene? 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. Scud. Yonder is the boy---now is my time! Hillo! 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. Point. Jacob M'Closky, you shan't have that girl. but the deed that freed you was not lawful. I suppose I shall go before long, and I wished to visit all the places, once again, to see the poor people. Wahnotee. 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. 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. That's just what you must do, and do it at once, or it will be too late. Lynch him! "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." If there's a chance of it, there's not a planter round here who wouldn't lend you the whole cash, to keep your name and blood amongst us. Well, is he not thus afflicted now? [Aside,C.] Insolent as usual.---[Aloud.] Cut all away for'ard---overboard with every bale afire. Scud. George. Yes; you was the first to hail Judge Lynch. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart. Now's your time, sar. You'se a dead man, Mas'r Clusky---you got to b'lieve dat. Ratts. I wish he would make love to me. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory. Ratts. You ign'ant Injiun, it can't hurt you! faded---is it not? Zoe is your child by a quadroon slave, and you didn't free her; blood! Mrs. P.The child was a favorite of the judge, who encouraged his gambols. I brought half this ruin on this family, with my all-fired improvements. I'm not guilty; would ye murder me? Zoe. Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. Mrs. P.Zoe, dear, I'm glad to see you more calm this morning. Stop! ya! Tullian Tchividjian. Why you speak so wild? Scud. Thib. Scud. No, [looks off,R.] 'tis Pete and the servants---they come this way. It's a shame to allow that young cub to run over the Swamps and woods, hunting and fishing his life away instead of hoeing cane. [Exit, with a low, wailing, suffocating cry,L.U.E. *EnterM'Closky, Lafouche, Jackson, Sunnyslde,and*Pointdexter,R.U.E. Point. 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. Scud. [L.] Yelping hound---take that. George. "When she goes along, she just leaves a streak of love behind her. Yours, &c, James Brown." 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. Judy Collins, You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music." Zoe. We're ready; the jury's impanelled---go ahead---who'll be accuser? The Octoroon (1912) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. Top The Octoroon Quotes I will be thirty years old again in thirty seconds. The Octoroon is a play by Dion Boucicault that opened in 1859 at The Winter Garden Theatre, New York City. Yes, Mas'r George, dey was born here; and old Pete is fonder on 'em dan he is of his fiddle on a Sunday. Scud. blaze away! Search him, we may find more evidence. Pete. In a word, I have seen and admired you! De time he gone just 'bout enough to cook dat dish plate. I saw a small bottle of cologne and asked if it was for sale. [Smiling.] Enjoy reading and share 1 famous quotes about The Octoroon with everyone. Zoe. I hope we don't intrude on the family. Sunny. Scene 2 is set in the Bayou, where M'Closky is asleep. Ain't you took them bags to the house yet? Zoe. Mrs. P. [Draws knife.] You want to hurt yourself. [ExitMrs. PeytonandSunnysideto house. Zoe, you are suffering---your lips are white---your cheeks are flushed. No. Away with him---put him down the aft hatch, till we rig his funeral. Well, he cut that for the photographing line. Then I shall never leave Terrebonne---the drink, nurse; the drink; that I may never leave my home---my dear, dear home. Dat you drink is fust rate for red fever. Zoe. Boucicault The Octoroon Quotes & Sayings. We are always in a perpetual state of being created and creating ourselves. [*Takes fan from*Minnie.] Scud. Enjoy reading and share 7 famous quotes about Boucicault The Octoroon with everyone. Two hundred and forty-nine times! The judge didn't understand accounts---the overseer did. 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. Is not Dora worth any man's---. Hush! No, ma'am, I worked like an ass---an honest one, and that's all. Dora. I shall do so if you weep. Zoe. George still loves Zoe, telling her: "[T]his knowledge brings no revolt to my heart, and I . Zoe. George. M'Closky. Pete. M'Closky. The Octoroon Important Quotes 1. See also Trivia | Goofs | Crazy Credits | Alternate Versions | Connections | Soundtracks 49, Paul, a quadroon boy, aged thirteen. Zoe. We'll hire out our slaves, and live on their wages. 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