what are you blowing about like a steamboat with one wheel for? look sar! George, you cannot marry me; the laws forbid it! 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. Point. [Reads.] or say the word, and I'll buy this old barrack, and you shall be mistress of Terrebonne. Do you know what I am? We'll hire out our slaves, and live on their wages. He and his apparatus arrived here, took the judge's likeness and his fancy, who made him overseer right off. Zoe. I don't think you capable of anything else than---. I didn't know whether they are completely honest. I believe Mr. M'Closky has a bill of sale on them. Scud. Go on, Colonel---Colonel Pointdexter, ma'am---the mortgagee, auctioneer, and general agent. One hundred thousand bid for this mag---. [Draws pistol---M'Closky*rushes on and falls atScudder'sfeet.*]. [Wakes.] George. Go it, if you're a mind to. The Injiun means that he buried him there! [Dies.---George*lowers her head gently.---Kneels.---Others form picture. [Aside to Sunnyside.] Scud. M'Closky. Well, then, what has my all-cowardly heart got to skeer me so for? M'Closky. That Indian is a nuisance. I can never sleep now without dreaming. Pete. He's too fond of thieving and whiskey. good, good nurse: you will, you will. 3, Pete, a house servant. You're a man as well as an auctioneer, ain't ye? D'ye feel it? Then buy the hands along with the property. Scud. Then I will go to the Red Light or the Monte Carlo and dance the floor afire. Come, Mrs. Peyton, take my arm. Zoe. George. Yes, Mas'r George, dey was born here; and old Pete is fonder on 'em dan he is of his fiddle on a Sunday. I'ss, Mas'r George. [Darts between them.] Shan't I! Where is Mr. Scudder? I thought I heard the sound of a paddle in the water. Just turn your face a leetle this way---fix your---let's see---look here. And we all got rich from it, so, you know, there's a benefit from it. | Contact Us Ratts. George. Captain, you've loaded up here until the boat is sunk so deep in the mud she won't float. Scud. George. 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. Ratts. Grace. 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. I must keep you, Captain, to the eleven hundred. Bah! I will take the best room in the Grand Central or the Orndorff Hotel. Scud. And all for the sake of that old woman and that young puppy---eh? Calm as a tombstone, and with about as much life. Hold on, now! give me the rest that no master but One can disturb---the sleep from which I shall awake free! Ratts. Irish - Dramatist December 26, 1822 - September 18, 1890. Zoe. gib it to ole Pete! Ha, ha! McClosky, however, outbids her for Zoe; George is restrained from attacking him by his friends. What say ye? Excuse me, I'll light a cigar. Mrs. P.Ah! Scud. I'll lend you all you want. Now's your time, sar. None o' ye ign'rant niggars could cry for yerselves like dat. save me! Pete. Boucicault The Octoroon Quotes & Sayings. Zoe. [*Exit*Thibodeaux, Sunnyside, Ratts, Pointdexter, Grace, Jackson, Lafouche, Caillou, Solon,R.U.E. Scud. Zoe. Wahnotee appears, drunk and sorrowful, and tells them that Paul is buried near them. Denora Boone, Everybody who went to Vietnam carries his or her own version of the war. There's one name on the list of slaves scratched, I see. Pete. [Offers hand,Georgebows coldly,R. C.] [aside.] M'Closky. Mr. Sunnyside, I can't do this job of showin' round the folks; my stomach goes agin it. if this is so, she's mine! Now fix yourself. Scud. *] What a good creature she is. Dora. I dare say you left at least a dozen beloved women there, at the same time. Guess it kill a dozen---nebber try. Hold on, George Peyton---stand back. Subject to your life interest and an annuity to Zoe, is it not so? Ask him, I want to know; don't say I told you to inquire, but find out. 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. Farewell, Dora. Extremely popular, the play was kept running continuously for years by seven road companies. He don't understand; he speaks a mash-up of Indian and Mexican. Gentlemen, the sale takes place at three. I ain't no count, sar. Scud. Important Quotes. Top The Octoroon Quotes I will be thirty years old again in thirty seconds. Yes! Zoe. Uh---uh, let's have a peep. The machine can't err---you may mistake your phiz but the apparatus don't." Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory. den run to dat pine tree up dar [points,L.U.E.] and back agin, and den pull down de rag so, d'ye see? 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. 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. M'Closky. Well, he lived in New York by sittin' with his heels up in front of French's Hotel, and inventin'---. 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. Top a bit! [ToMrs. M'Closky. [Shouts heard,R.]. O, my husband! I'll trouble you for that piece of baccy, Judge---thank you---so, gentlemen, as life is short, we'll start right off. a slave! I am his love---he loves an Octoroon. yes, plenty of 'em; bill of costs; account with Citizens' Bank---what's this? 1, Solon, a guess boy, and good waiter.". Ratts. You don't expect to recover any of this old debt, do you? Hugh vieu. Do not weep, George. O! EnterScudder, George, Ratts, Caillou, Pete, Grace, Minnie,and all theNegroes. The devil I am! No; Wahnotee is a gentle, honest creature, and remains here because he loves that boy with the tenderness of a woman. 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. [Enters inner room,R.U.E.]. two forms! Alex Tizon, To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen in the light. Zoe, he's going; I want him to stay and make love to me that's what I came for to-day. Come, then, but if I catch you drinkin', O, laws a mussey, you'll get snakes! Pete. We've had talk enough; now for proof. M'Closky. 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. George. I have remarked that she is treated by the neighbors with a kind of familiar condescension that annoyed me. Yes; No. A large table is in theC.,at back. Mrs. Claiborne Miss Clinton. Ratts. [*Seizes whip, and holds*Paul. You are illegitimate, but love knows no prejudice. [Opens desk.] I dare say, now, that in Europe you have never met any lady more beautiful in person, or more polished in manners, than that girl. That's a challenge to begin a description of my feminine adventures. O, here, do you know what annuity the old judge left you is worth to-day? burn! He said so. Here, stay! Ah! I also feel that demonstrations wouldn't go on unless there is a TV camera. Act II Summary. I thank Heaven you have not lived to see this day. What! Pete. This old nigger, the grandfather of the boy you murdered, speaks for you---don't that go through you? Cut, cut the rope---I choke---choke!---Ah! Jackson. Seize him, then! | About Us [Sitting,R. C.] A pretty mess you've got this estate in---. since you arrived! Go and try it, if you've a mind to. Paul. M'Closky. O! Paul. 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! Scene 2 is set in the Bayou, where M'Closky is asleep. [Draws revolver.] The tragic ending was used for American audiences, to avoid portraying a mixed marriage.[4]. Mrs. P.George, you are incorrigible. [M'Closky*strikes him on the head---he falls dead.*]. Scud. Says he'll go if I'll go with him. Point. Five hundred dollars!---[*To*Thibodeaux.] I---my mother was---no, no---not her! You don't come here to take life easy. Thank'ye. I couldn't bear to see him put to work. don't think too hardly of your poor father. But dis ain't all. Ah! You can bet I'm going to make this . [Raises hand to back of his neck.] What, Mr. Ratts, are you going to invest in swamps? O, why did he speak to me at all then? Sunny. Why should I refer the blame to her? I shall knock it down to the Squire---going---gone---for one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. No, I hesitated because an attachment I had formed before I had the pleasure of seeing you had not altogether died out. Be the first to contribute! he does not know, he does not know! what are you doing there, you young varmint! yonder goes the Indian! Nebber supply no more, sar---nebber dance again. Mrs. Pey. Hillo! he's allers in for it. Zoe. Scud. Is that you, Mr. Overseer? ya! Mrs. P.[Embracing him.] "But, sir, it ain't agreeable." I'm waiting on your fifty thousand bid. George still loves Zoe, telling her: "[T]his knowledge brings no revolt to my heart, and I . black as nigger; clar as ice. [Aside to Zoe.] Dat's what her soul's gwine to do. [Doraattempts to take it.] Dido. Scud. 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. George. top till I get enough of you in one place! He stood gazing in wonder at her work-basket as if it was something extraordinary. If he stirs, I'll put a bullet through his skull, mighty quick. O! It wants an hour yet to daylight---here is Pete's hut---[Knocks.] Are they? [A pause.] He's an Injiun---fair play. Enjoy reading and share 14 famous quotes about Boucicaults The Octoroon with everyone. Poor little Paul! How long before we start, captain? D'ye hear it---nearer---nearer---ah! To-morrow they'll bloom the same---all will be here as now, and I shall be cold. Hold on a bit. [Rises.] George. Point. Born here! DORA played by a white actress or an actress who can pass as white. Only three of his plays were to have an American setting, The Octoroon is one of these. [To the men.] Scud. Liverpool post mark. To be alive is to be breathing. *EnterPete, Grace, Minnie, Solon, Dido,and all*Niggers,R.U.E. Pete. Dora. Now, what have you done to show them the distinction? I see it in your face. Sunny. Now, den, if Grace dere wid her chil'n were all sold, she'll begin screechin' like a cat. Stand around and let me pass---room thar! 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. Sunny. Darn ye! But what do we pay for that possession? 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. 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---. Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. [ExitMrs. PeytonandSunnysideto house. Mrs. P.And you hesitated from motives of delicacy? [Makes sign thatPaulwas killed by a blow on the head.]. things have got so jammed in on top of us, we ain't got time to put kid gloves on to handle them. Stay, Mr. Peyton; Zoe, a word! 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