George. I'll murder this yer crowd, [*He chases*Childrenabout; they leap over railing at back. "No. Hark! Paul. I'd give half the balance of my life to wipe out my part of the work. | About Us Hole yer tongue, Dido. Hello! So we believe; and so mad are the folks around, if they catch the red-skin they'll lynch him sure. [On sofa,C.] George---where---where---, Zoe. Jacob M'Closky, 'twas you murdered that boy! George. I deserve to be a nigger this day---I feel like one, inside. Sunny. Yes; I kept the letters, and squandered the money. Yah! George, O, forgive me! Take your hand down---take it down. Jackson. Cora, educated in Britain, returns to her fathers plantation in Louisiana to explore the truth about her mother's. Well, that has come out clear, ain't it? Irish - Dramatist December 26, 1822 - September 18, 1890. Scud. A mistake, sar---forty-six. Zoe. Grace. Seize him, then! Don't be a fool; they'd kill you, and then take her, just as soon as---stop; Old Sunnyside, he'll buy her! I saw a small bottle of cologne and asked if it was for sale. She said, "It's free with purchase." Then I shall never leave Terrebonne---the drink, nurse; the drink; that I may never leave my home---my dear, dear home. [Seizing a fly whisk.] M'Closky. Scud. Sunny. Top a bit! Dem debils. Nebber mind, sar, we bring good news---it won't spile for de keeping. I listen dar jess now---dar was ole lady cryin'---Mas'r George---ah! Pete. this infernal letter would have saved all. George. Death was there beside me, and I dared not take it. George, do you see that hand you hold? Dora. The Octoroon's Sacrifice (1912) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. You will not forget poor Zoe! Now, it ain't no use trying to get mad, Mas'r Scudder. It was those quiet moments alone when I just hated the person I had become. Dido. You begged me to call this morning. I say, Zoe, do you hear that? I bid seven thousand, which is the last dollar this family possesses. Pointdexter*mounts the table with his hammer, his Clerk sits at his feet. Mrs. Peyton, George Peyton, Terrebonne is yours. McClosky, however, outbids her for Zoe; George is restrained from attacking him by his friends. Will ye? Squire Sunnyside, you've got a pretty bit o' land, Squire. I will be thirty years old again in thirty seconds. Stay, Mr. Peyton; Zoe, a word! Scud. Bless'ee, Missey Zoe, here it be. No! Zoe. Every word of it, Squire. Ratts. [Sees tomahawk in Wahnotee's belt---draws it out and examines it.] The first lot on here is the estate in block, with its sugar-houses, stock, machines, implements, good dwelling-houses and furniture. Gen'l'men, my colored frens and ladies, dar's mighty bad news gone round. Zoe. Scud. Zoe, you are suffering---your lips are white---your cheeks are flushed. And you killed him? Letters! Pete, speak to the red-skin. | Privacy Policy Scud. Scud. Dora. [Rising.] [Aside.] Yah! I see it in your face. I don't think you capable of anything else than---. Why you speak so wild? faded---is it not? Ha, ha! 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." What? That's just what you must do, and do it at once, or it will be too late. May Heaven bless him for the thought, bless him for the happiness he spread around my life. me! M'Closky. George. He loves Zoe, and has found out that she loves him. I see we are just in time for breakfast. Scud. George. Here we are on the selvage of civilization. Is that you, Mr. Overseer? Away with him---put him down the aft hatch, till we rig his funeral. M'Closky. Sorry I can't return the compliment. Scud. We got the horses saddled, and galloped down the shell road over the Piney Patch; then coasting the Bayou Lake, we crossed the long swamps, by Paul's Path, and so came home again. burn! Boucicault The Octoroon Quotes & Sayings. 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 conflict centers around Zoe, "the Octoroon", a term used at the time to describe a person who was 1/8 African, 7/8 Caucasian. why don't you do it? ---Cane-brake Bayou.---Bank,C.---Triangle Fire,R. C.---Canoe,C.---M'Closky*discovered asleep. Darn me, if I couldn't raise thirty thousand on the envelope alone, and ten thousand more on the post-mark. Deep songs don't come from the surface; they come from the deep down. My dear husband never kept any accounts, and we scarcely know in what condition the estate really is. Scud. I have it. Grace. "Ma'am," says I, "the apparatus can't mistake." *EnterThibodeauxand*Sunnyside,R.U.E. Thibo. George. You can protect me from that man---do let me die without pain. I have come to say good-by, sir; two hard words---so hard, they might break many a heart; mightn't they? M'Closky overhears their conversation, but still vows he'll "have her if it costs [him] [his] life" (44). Paul! Pete. Dora. The injiun! 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. Unlock this Study Guide! At college they said I was a fool---I must be. Scud. "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). Minnie (a Quadroon Slave) Miss Walters. If you haven't spoiled her, I fear I have. Stand around and let me pass---room thar! George. M'Closky. No. Zoe. O, no; Mas'r Scudder, don't leave Mas'r Closky like dat---don't, sa---'tain't what good Christian should do. Mrs. Pey. 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. [Scandalized.] M'Closky. Pete. Zoe. [To Jackson.] Pete. It makes my blood so hot I feel my heart hiss. Hillo! Jacob McClosky, the man who ruined Judge Peyton, has come to inform George and his aunt (who was bequeathed a life interest in the estate) that their land will be sold and their slaves auctioned off separately. Sunny. what will become of her when I am gone? Coute Wahnotee in omenee dit go Wahnotee, poina la fa, comb a pine tree, la revieut sala, la fa. [Laughs.]. Zoe. [*Hands papers to*Mrs. [Knocks.] Scud. *EnterPaul,wrestling with*Wahnotee,R.3. Zoe (an Octoroon Girl, free, the Natural Child of the late Judge by a Quadroon Slave) Mrs. J. H. Allen. Be calm---darn the things; the proceeds of this sale won't cover the debts of the estate. D'ye feel it? Ages 12-17: Camp Broadway Ensemble @ Carnegie Hall. Ratts. No, ma'am; here's the plan of it. Paul. Sunny. It's surely worth the love that dictated it; here are the papers and accounts. Lafouche. What! Look here, the boy knows and likes me, Judge; let him come my way? Yes, sir; they were the free papers of the girl Zoe; but they were in my husband's secretary. 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. *Enter*Wahnotee,R.;they are all about to rush on him. [] 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) thank you. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. "Ma'am, your nose drawed it. If I must die, give me up to the law; but save me from the tomahawk. Tousand dollars, Massa Thibodeaux. Pete. I want Pete here a minute. The murder is captured on Scudder's photographic apparatus. He gone down to de landing last night wid Mas'r Scudder; not come back since---kint make it out. Pete. Say what you know---not what you heard. Aunt, I will take my rifle down to the Atchafalaya. Dora. Go on, Colonel. Let me proceed by illustration. Paul's best friend, the Indian Wahnotee, discovers Paul's body; he can speak only poor English, however, and is unable to communicate the tragedy to anyone else. 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? I thank Heaven you have not lived to see this day. No---no. Paul. M'Closky. You got four of dem dishes ready. George. He is sitting on on my prize! Hooraw! Scud. Come, cheer up, old friend. Well when I say go, den lift dis rag like dis, see! Were they all born on this estate? All Rights Reserved. you bomn'ble fry---git out---a gen'leman can't pass for you. The Octoroon is a play by Dion Boucicault that opened in 1859 at The Winter Garden Theatre, New York City. hark! Adam had a job, a place to live, and food that he could provide for his woman. If even Asian women saw the men of their own blood as less than other men, what was the use in arguing otherwise? Will you forgive me? Scad. And, strangers, ain't we forgetting there's a lady present. I must operate and take my own likeness too---how debbel I do dat? [*Exit*Dora,L.U.E.] What on earth does that child mean or want? She has had the education of a lady. 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. You thought you had cornered me, did ye? yonder goes the Indian! Glendon Swarthout, Never believe in any faith younger than you are." Fifty against one! We work. An Octoroon is a play written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. George, you may without a blush confess your love for the Octoroon! No, you goose! [Eagerly.] [Wakes.] George. gib it to ole Pete! I mean that before you could draw that bowie-knife, you wear down your back, I'd cut you into shingles. Mrs. P.I cannot find the entry in my husband's accounts; but you, Mr. M'Closky, can doubtless detect it. TheNegromounts the table from behind*C.The Company sit. Zoe! By ten I was playing competitively. Sharon Gannon. Pete. Scud. Yes, missus. Peyton.] Born here---dem darkies? Lynch him! M'Closky. I couldn't bear to see him put to work. Boucicault adapted the play from the novel The Quadroon by Thomas Mayne Reid (1856). M'Closky. 4, the Octoroon girl, Zoe.". [*Seeing*Dora.] [SeesPete,*who has set his pail down*L. C.up stage, and goes to sleep on it.] Pete. Zoe. You heard him say it was hopeless. for me---look ye here! [Aside to Pete.] [Advances.] Who is it? "No. Scud. [Reads.] Missey Zoe! Mrs. P.Yes; the firm has recovered itself, and I received a notice two months ago that some settlement might be anticipated. Scud. His love for me will pass away---it shall. Zoe. [Pause.] [*Goes*L.] Paul reste el! No, sar; nigger nebber cut stick on Terrebonne; dat boy's dead, sure. Pete. George, you cannot marry me; the laws forbid it! I guess he ain't left home yet, Colonel. Zoe, they shall not take you from us while I live. Share with your friends. Ho! I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. Ah! 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. The list of your slaves is incomplete---it wants one. George. European, I suppose. Make an argument for each side of the slavery argument here, analyzing how the play could be read as both anti- and pro-slavery. Top Quadroon And Octoroon Quotes. Go on, Colonel---Colonel Pointdexter, ma'am---the mortgagee, auctioneer, and general agent. M'Closky. Two hundred and forty-nine times! Scud. Hugh vieu. 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. he tinks it's a gun. Peyton.]. No, no! Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. Grace. What's the matter, Ratts? I say, then, air you honest men? 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. Scud. George. Go with Dora to Sunnyside. No, [looks off,R.] 'tis Pete and the servants---they come this way. If you bid me do so I will obey you---. No, no---life is good for young ting like you. [Wahnotee*rises and looks atM'Closky---he is in his war paint and fully armed.*]. In a word, I have seen and admired you! George. Point. Poor child! The Octoroon Important Quotes 1. Mrs. P.George, you are incorrigible. Mr. Scudder, good morning. shall we have one law for the red-skin and another for the white? Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. Only three of his plays were to have an American setting, The Octoroon is one of these. Where are they? And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. Judge, my friend. Scud. The Steamer moves off---fire kept up---M'Closky*re-enters,*R.,*swimming on.*. O! Scud. Pete. this letter the old lady expects---that's it; let me only head off that letter, and Terrebonne will be sold before they can recover it. Grace. Mrs. P.And you hesitated from motives of delicacy? Because I heard that you had traduced my character. 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. Lafouche. they call it the Yankee hugging the Creole. Scud. I say, I'd like to say summit soft to the old woman; perhaps it wouldn't go well, would it? [They get on table.]. Paul. George. Lynch him! When the ship's abroad on the ocean, when the army is before the enemy where in thunder's the law? Zoe. Zoe. She refuses, but Zoe steals the bottle from her anyway and runs off. air you true? M'Closky. Zoe, he's going; I want him to stay and make love to me that's what I came for to-day. for, darn me, if I can find out. 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. Have I slept upon the benefits I received, and never saw, never felt, never knew that I was forgetful and ungrateful? Point. Ain't that a cure for old age; it kinder lifts the heart up, don't it? You don't come here to take life easy. [Aside to Zoe.] Captain, you've loaded up here until the boat is sunk so deep in the mud she won't float. dead---and above him---Ah! We must excuse Scudder, friends. Try him, then---try him on the spot of his crime. | Privacy Policy M'Closky. She is one-eighth black, the daughter of a "quadroon" slave woman, and is very. [Tableaux.]. [C.] My dear aunt, why do you not move from this painful scene? Why, I was dreaming---curse it! I'm on you like a painter, and when I'm drawed out I'm pizin. [Georgepours contents of phial in glass. The Octoroon is appropriately considered a sensation drama, though it received the label retrospectively. Dido. [Exit slowly, as if concealing himself,R.U.E. George. Only 10 percent engaged in combat; the American elephant, pursuing the Vietnamese grasshopper, was extraordinarily heavy with logistical support. Lynch him! 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? I will dine on oysters and palomitas and wash them down with white wine. Hold on now, Jacob; we've got to figure on that---let us look straight at the thing. M'Closky hates Scudder in return, especially because they both love Zoe, Mr. Peyton's "octoroon" daughter, Zoe. My love? George. They have realized that Paul is missing, and most believe him dead. My father gives me freedom---at least he thought so. Hold on a bit. Now it's cooking, laws mussey, I feel it all inside, as if it was at a lottery. George. [*Throws bowie-knife to*M'Closky.] Dora. [Darts between them.] I won't strike him, even with words. It is an adaptation of Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon , which premiered in 1859. Well, near on five hundred dollars. Scud. [C.] I'm sorry to intrude, but the business I came upon will excuse me. M'Closkyruns off,L.1. [Leads her forward---aside.] 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. Zoe, must we immolate our lives on her prejudice? How can she then ask her father to free me? 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. I wish he would make love to me. Zoe. Mrs. P.O, Salem! M'Closky. What was her name? Wahnotee Patira na sepau assa wigiran. Dem doctors ain't no 'count; dey don't know nuffin. O, here he is. [Examines the ground.] Raits. Pete. [Returns to table and drinks.]. Sunny. Pete, you old turkey-buzzard, saddle my mare. M'Closky. See Injiun; look dar [shows him plate], see dat innocent: look, dar's de murderer of poor Paul. What's come ob de child? Dido. Pete. What court of law would receive such evidence? You be darned! Excuse me; one of the principal mortgagees has made the demand. Dora. M'Closky. Zoe. 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? I'll clear him off there---he'll never know what stunned him. George. Mr. M'Closky has bid twenty-five thousand dollars for the Octoroon. M'Closky. Scud. why, clar out! What you's gwine to do, missey? Now, I feel bad about my share in the business. Zoe, if all I possess would buy your freedom, I would gladly give it. I hope I'm not intruding. Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. Really is then, air you honest men pail down * L. ] Paul reste el are! Really is anti- and pro-slavery a job, a word * who has set his pail *. Reste el I had become him come my way turkey-buzzard, saddle mare! Might be anticipated gone round as both anti- and pro-slavery 'll lynch him sure landing night. [ SeesPete, * who has set his pail down * L. 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