yar, you Wahnotee! He's too fond of thieving and whiskey. Top Quadroon And Octoroon Quotes. Come, cheer up, old friend. Pete. What's here---judgments? So it went, till one day the judge found the tap wouldn't run. When she goes along, she just leaves a streak of love behind her. O, my---my heart! Sunny. [Takes out his knife. Hello, Pete, I never heard of that affair. dead---and above him---Ah! Zoe. I shall never understand how to wound the feelings of any lady; and, if that is the custom here, I shall never acquire it. Yes, ma'am, I hold a mortgage over Terrebonne; mine's a ninth, and pretty near covers all the property, except the slaves. Then, if they go, they'll take Zoe---she'll follow them. D'ye hear that, Jacob? Well, sir, what does this Scudder do but introduces his inventions and improvements on this estate. This is your own house; we are under your uncle's roof; recollect yourself. I bid seven thousand, which is the last dollar this family possesses. Ages 12-17: Camp Broadway Ensemble @ Carnegie Hall. It makes my blood so hot I feel my heart hiss. I will take the best room in the Grand Central or the Orndorff Hotel. *Enter*Wahnotee,R.;they are all about to rush on him. Dora. I hope it will turn out better than most of my notions. Cut all away for'ard---overboard with every bale afire. May Heaven bless him for the thought, bless him for the happiness he spread around my life. Farewell, Dora. You don't expect to recover any of this old debt, do you? Terrebonne is yours. Ratts. M'Closky. O! Sunny. Zoe. Zoe, you are suffering---your lips are white---your cheeks are flushed. George, dear George, do you love me? [*Takes fan from*Minnie.] Pete. I'll bear it. Well, he has the oddest way of making love. Mrs. P.Hospitality in Europe is a courtesy; here, it is an obligation. Join StageAgent today and unlock amazing theatre resources and opportunities. Den say de missus, "'Tain't for de land I keer, but for dem poor niggars---dey'll be sold---dat wot stagger me." Zoe. My darling! Jackson. You see how easily I have become reconciled to my fate---so it will be with you. Dere's a dish of pen-pans---jess taste, Mas'r George---and here's fried bananas; smell 'em, do, sa glosh. Squire Sunnyside is going to sell this at fifty thousand advance to-morrow.---[Looks round.] We are catching fire forward; quick, set free from the shore. [*ExitM'Closkyand*Pointdexter,R.U.E. Scud. D'ye feel it? [Sits down.] 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. Ratts. You are illegitimate, but love knows no prejudice. You slew him with that tomahawk; and as you stood over his body with the letter in your hand, you thought that no witness saw the deed, that no eye was on you---but there was, Jacob M'Closky, there was. [Raising his voice.] Hold on! Top, sar! Zoe. I feel that I departed amid universal and sincere regret. He's yours, Captain Ratts, Magnolia steamer. EnterScudder, George, Ratts, Caillou, Pete, Grace, Minnie,and all theNegroes. O, how I lapped up her words, like a thirsty bloodhound! ain't that a pooty gun. Scud. I'll gib it you! ], Pete. tink anybody wants you to cry? Thib. Was dat?---a cry out dar in de swamp---dar agin! He's an Injiun---fair play. M'Closky. E. Paul. [Aside to Zoe.] The earth has been stirred here lately. Take that, and defend yourself. Mr. Lafouche, why, how do you do, sir? He confesses it; the Indian got drunk, quarreled with him, and killed him. Darn it, when I see a woman in trouble, I feel like selling the skin off my back. If it don't stain de cup, your wicked ole life's in danger, sure! I don't know; she may as well hear the hull of it. George. Zoe. He stood gazing in wonder at her work-basket as if it was something extraordinary. Scud. He can fight though he's a painter; claws all over. Here's the Picayune [producing paper] with the advertisement. Miss Sunnyside, permit me a word; a feeling of delicacy has suspended upon my lips an avowal, which---. Zoe. Well, what d'ye say, Lafouche---d'ye smile? Pete. Ivan Glasenberg, Very few things hurt my young ego more than an Asian female openly shaming me for my Asian-ness. 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. Mrs. P.The child was a favorite of the judge, who encouraged his gambols. [Sighing.] Well, that's all right; but as he can't marry her, and as Miss Dora would jump at him---. McClosky intercepts a young slave boy, Paul, who is bringing a mailbag to the house which contains a letter from one of Judge Peyton's old debtors. You will not forget poor Zoe! Some of you niggers run and hole de hosses; and take dis, Dido. No, you goose! So it is. And dar's de 'paratus---O, gosh, if I could take a likeness ob dis child! Then, if I sink every dollar I'm worth in her purchase, I'll own that Octoroon. Zoe. [*Exit*Mrs. Peyton*and*George,L.U.E.] A slave! And all for the sake of that old woman and that young puppy---eh? 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. Not lawful---no---but I am going to where there is no law---where there is only justice. George R R Martin. Dora. Zoe. George says he can "overcome the obstacle" (43), but Zoe protests that they cannot be together. They don't seem to be scared by the threat. Go outside, there; listen to what you hear, then go down to the quarters and tell the boys, for I can't do it. [Dora*gets water.] Zoe. Zoe. Paul. Come, the hour is past. I listen dar jess now---dar was ole lady cryin'---Mas'r George---ah! 'Tis true! Scud. [Looking at watch.] Author: Mike Watt. Yes, Mas'r George, dey was born here; and old Pete is fonder on 'em dan he is of his fiddle on a Sunday. He and his apparatus arrived here, took the judge's likeness and his fancy, who made him overseer right off. [Aside to Sunnyside.] Paul! Were they all born on this estate? 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. Thank you, Mas'r Ratts: I die for you, sar; hold up for me, sar. Dat wakes him up. Let him answer for the boy, then. Why, because I love Zoe, too, and I couldn't take that young feller from her; and she's jist living on the sight of him, as I saw her do; and they so happy in spite of this yer misery around them, and they reproachin' themselves with not feeling as they ought. M'Closky. [All salute.]. save me! Dora. what will become of her when I am gone? And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. faded---is it not? EnterSolon*andDidowith coffee-pot, dishes, &c.,*R.U.E. Dido. Author: Dahlia Lithwick. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. This business goes agin me, Ratts---'tain't right. go on. look sar! What, on Terrebonne! I wish he would make love to me. Would you now? Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory. They owed him over fifty thousand dollars. The Octoroon or The Lily of Louisiana is a dark tale of crime, race and slavery. Scud. Scud. Dora. [*To*Zoe.] Zoe. Alas! The judge drew money like Bourbon whiskey from a barrel, and never turned off the tap. Curse their old families---they cut me---a bilious, conceited, thin lot of dried up aristocracy. You be darned! 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? Fellow-citizens, you are convened and assembled here under a higher power than the law. if dey aint all lighted, like coons, on dat snake fence, just out of shot. Mas'r George---ah, no, sar---don't buy me---keep your money for some udder dat is to be sold. Zoe, will you remain here? George. Say what you know---not what you heard. Just one month ago I quitted Paris. Tullian Tchividjian. Go, Minnie, tell Pete; run! Hi! Paul. George. [Searching him.] While the proceeds of this sale promises to realize less than the debts upon it, it is my duty to prevent any collusion for the depreciation of the property. [They approach again.]. Guess they nebber was born---dem tings! You are right, sir; though I shrank from expressing that opinion in her presence, so bluntly. Pete, you old turkey-buzzard, saddle my mare. Go on, Colonel. Then buy the hands along with the property. ], [Gets in canoe and rows off,L.---Wahnotee*paddles canoe on,*R.---gets out and finds trail---paddles off after him,L.]. I will dine on oysters and palomitas and wash them down with white wine. 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. What, Zoe! ExitScudderandPete,R.1. What, sar! Be the first to contribute! I shall endeavor not to be jealous of the past; perhaps I have no right to be. Mrs. P.Why didn't you mention this before? A draft for eighty-five thousand dollars, and credit on Palisse and Co., of New Orleans, for the balance. I will; for it is agin my natur' to b'lieve him guilty; and if he be, this ain't the place, nor you the authority to try him. Art becomes art only when it's shared with others. Dora. Ratts. [Smiling.] Dora. Wood up thar, you Polio---hang on to the safety valve---guess she'll crawl off on her paddles. Two hundred and forty-nine times! M'Closky. Wahnote*swims on---finds trail---follows him. "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---. Yes, den a glass ob fire-water; now den. Save me---save me! What's dat? *] What a good creature she is. Ain't you took them bags to the house yet? Only 10 percent engaged in combat; the American elephant, pursuing the Vietnamese grasshopper, was extraordinarily heavy with logistical support. Paul. give me the rest that no master but One can disturb---the sleep from which I shall awake free! I couldn't bear to see him put to work. Point. Hark! Mrs. P.Wahnotee, will you go back to your people? Ah. [*Seeing*Dora.] Dora. You seem already familiar with the names of every spot on the estate. Zoe. And we all got rich from it, so, you know, there's a benefit from it. 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. Now, I feel bad about my share in the business. [Rising.] M'Closky. I say, then, air you honest men? "Ma'am," says I, "the apparatus can't mistake." Go with Dora to Sunnyside. Tousand dollars, Massa Thibodeaux. Mrs. P.I cannot find the entry in my husband's accounts; but you, Mr. M'Closky, can doubtless detect it. The Octoroon Important Quotes 1. look here, these Peytons are bust; cut 'em; I am rich, jine me; I'll set you up grand, and we'll give these first families here our dust, until you'll see their white skins shrivel up with hate and rage; what d'ye say? I tell ye, 't'ain't so---we can't do it---we've got to be sold---, Pete. O, you wanted evidence---you called for proof---Heaven has answered and convicted you. Scud. Is my plantation at Comptableau worth this? Pete. Ratts. twit him on his silence and abstraction---I'm sure it's plain enough, for he has not spoken two words to me all the day; then joke round the subject, and at last speak out. I'm broke, Solon---I can't stop the Judge. 'An Octoroon' was written over about three years but premiered in 2014. O, none for me; I never eat. Improvements---anything, from a stay-lace to a fire-engine. Zoe. [Re-enters with phial.] [Wrenches it from him.] I've got hold of the tail of a rat---come out. I didn't know whether they are completely honest. [Minnie runs off.] 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. Scud. This lynch law is a wild and lawless proceeding. George. They have realized that Paul is missing, and most believe him dead. I've got engaged eight hundred bales at the next landing, and one hundred hogsheads of sugar at Patten's Slide---that'll take my guards under---hurry up thar. George. You say the proceeds of the sale will not cover his debts. Take my shawl, Zoe. None o' ye ign'rant niggars could cry for yerselves like dat. Dion Boucicault Quotes - BrainyQuote. Hark! I won't strike him, even with words. Do you know what I am? thank you. No! The house of Mason Brothers, of Liverpool, failed some twenty years ago in my husband's debt. 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. [Wakes.] All right, Judge; I thought there was a mistake. George. You want to hurt yourself. Boucicault adapted the play from the novel The Quadroon by Thomas Mayne Reid (1856). To-morrow they'll bloom the same---all will be here as now, and I shall be cold. Fire!---one, two, three. Ratts. I hope I'm not intruding. Point. 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! Top The Octoroon Quotes I will be thirty years old again in thirty seconds. O! Is that you, Mr. Overseer? 'Tain't no faint---she's a dying, sa; she got pison from old Dido here, this mornin'. . there it comes---it comes---don't you hear a footstep on the dry leaves? Sunny. Brightness will return amongst you. The men begin to call for McClosky to be lynched, but Scudder convinces them to send him to jail instead. Try him, then---try him on the spot of his crime. have I fixed ye? 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. Guess it kill a dozen---nebber try. It will cost me all I'm worth. [Shows plate. You p'tend to be sorry for Paul, and prize him like dat. I'm gwine! Let me hide them till I teach my heart. George. Stephen King, I have a feeling that demonstrations don't accomplish anything. Scud. I left it last night all safe. Ha, ha!---[Calls.] So! [Throws mail bags down and sits on them,L. C.] Pret, now den go. See also O, no; Mas'r Scudder, don't leave Mas'r Closky like dat---don't, sa---'tain't what good Christian should do. He don't understand; he speaks a mash-up of Indian and Mexican. Haven't you worked like a horse? If she could not accept me, who could? Scudder. Why don't he return to his nation out West? Dido. In cash? Now fix yourself. 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. Lafouche. 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