You be darned! [Draws knife.] What's the matter, Ratts? The Steamer floats on at back, burning. Excuse me, I'll light a cigar. 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? George. She's in love with young Peyton; it made me curse, whar it made you cry, as it does now; I see the tears on your cheeks now. Be calm---darn the things; the proceeds of this sale won't cover the debts of the estate. [*Exit*Mrs. Peyton*and*George,L.U.E.] A slave! Zoe. Pete. D'ye hear it---nearer---nearer---ah! the rat's out. I will be thirty years old again in thirty seconds. [Sits,R.] Look thar! Paul. I will! She loves him! All there is there would kill one, wouldn't it? Lynch him! 4, the Octoroon girl, Zoe.". Dion Boucicault. Thib. Here are evidences of the crime; this rum-bottle half emptied---this photographic apparatus smashed---and there are marks of blood and footsteps around the shed. [Reads.] It ain't necessary for me to dilate, describe, or enumerate; Terrebonne is known to you as one of the richest bits of sile in Louisiana, and its condition reflects credit on them as had to keep it. A puppy, if he brings any of his European airs here we'll fix him.---[Aloud.] If Omenee remain, Wahnotee will die in Terrebonne. Mrs. P.[Embracing him.] Why, judge, wasn't you lawyer enough to know that while a judgment stood against you it was a lien on your slaves? [Advances.] Zoe, if all I possess would buy your freedom, I would gladly give it. The word octoroon signifies a person of one-eighth African ancestry. I can't introduce any darned improvement there. I don't care, they were blue this morning, but it don't signify now. Zoe. Come, form a court then, choose a jury---we'll fix this varmin. M'Closky. PART ONE: The estate of Terrebonne, in Louisiana, had been heavily mortgaged by the owner, Judge Payton, who, when he died, left the estate to his brother's widow and her son George, making Mrs. Peyton the guardian of Zoe, his natural daughter by a quadroon. Squire Sunnyside, you've got a pretty bit o' land, Squire. Dora. The New York Times noted 'its striking merits as a sensational drama' Why, Dora, what's the matter? Boucicault The Octoroon Quotes & Sayings. Calm as a tombstone, and with about as much life. M'Closky. Now's your time, sar. Zoe. How are we sure the boy is dead at all? [Sits down.] George. 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. [*Points down, and shows by pantomime how he buried*Paul.]. *EnterThibodeauxand*Sunnyside,R.U.E. Thibo. He is incapable of any but sincere and pure feelings---so are you. At college they said I was a fool---I must be. [They get on table.]. A large table is in theC.,at back. [Scandalized.] The auctioneer arrives, along with prospective buyers, McClosky among them. Mrs. P.The child was a favorite of the judge, who encouraged his gambols. I'll take back my bid, Colonel. What! [Takes out his knife. Stephen King, I have a feeling that demonstrations don't accomplish anything. [Seizing a fly whisk.] 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. Look in my eyes; is not the same color in the white? 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. I'd give half the balance of my life to wipe out my part of the work. Paul. that'll save her. It contains elements of Romanticism and melodrama. Yes, we do, ma'am; it's in a darned bad condition. Mr. M'Closky has bid twenty-five thousand dollars for the Octoroon. Wahnotee tracks him down and confronts him; in the ensuing struggle, Wahnotee kills McClosky. Hello, Pete, I never heard of that affair. Whoever said so lied. Minnie (a Quadroon Slave) Miss Walters. [Looks off.] George, O, forgive me! Zoe. if I stop here, I shall hug her right off. Zoe. You can't control everything in life Gemma Burgess, Never had he beheld such a magnificent brown skin, so entrancing a figure, such dainty, transparent fingers. Grace. [Speaking in his ear-trumpet.] Guess it kill a dozen---nebber try. McClosky has proved that Judge Peyton did not succeed in legally freeing her, as he had meant to do. Hold on, you'll see. [All salute.]. Is it on such evidence you'd hang a human being? here's the other one; she's a little too thoroughbred---too much of the greyhound; but the heart's there, I believe. And twenty thousand bid. *EnterPete, Pointdexter, Jackson, Lafouche,and*Caillou,R.U.E. Pete. All right, Judge; I thought there was a mistake. M'Closky. Very bad, aunty; and the heart aches worse, so they can get no rest. Copyright 2023 Famous Quotes & Sayings. George. George. Mrs. P.Wahnotee, will you go back to your people? He can fight though he's a painter; claws all over. EnterZoe,L.U.E.,very pale, and stands on table.---M'Closkyhitherto has taken no interest in the sale, now turns his chair. Ratts. You have been tried---honestly tried and convicted. He don't understand; he speaks a mash-up of Indian and Mexican. I feel that I departed amid universal and sincere regret. It wants an hour yet to daylight---here is Pete's hut---[Knocks.] I've got hold of the tail of a rat---come out. M'Closky. This blow has staggered me some. Author: Mike Watt. Well---I didn't mean to kill him, did I? Dora. I only come back to find Wahnotee; whar is dat ign'ant Ingiun? You're trembling so, you'll fall down directly. Ha! look at these fingers; do you see the nails are of a bluish tinge? George. I'll sweep these Peytons from this section of the country. What! Judge, my friend. No---no. Scud. Zoe, explain yourself---your language fills me with shapeless fears. I ain't no count, sar. The first lot on here is the estate in block, with its sugar-houses, stock, machines, implements, good dwelling-houses and furniture. No, the love I speak of is not such as you suppose,---it is a passion that has grown up here since I arrived; but it is a hopeless, mad, wild feeling, that must perish. there it comes---it comes---don't you hear a footstep on the dry leaves? Yes, I'm here, somewhere, interferin'. Scud. He said I want a nigger. Peyton.] Pete. 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? me! Zoe, you have suspected the feeling that now commands an utterance---you have seen that I love you. Sign that receipt, captain, and save me going up to the clerk. [Aside,C.] Insolent as usual.---[Aloud.] ], Pete. Zoe, tell Pete to give my mare a feed, will ye? 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? You got four of dem dishes ready. She has had the education of a lady. M'Closky. I shall do so if you weep. M'Closky. I always said you were the darndest thief that ever escaped a white jail to misrepresent the North to the South. Guess they nebber was born---dem tings! I appeal against your usurped authority. When I travelled round with this machine, the homely folks used to sing out, "Hillo, mister, this ain't like me!" Zoe. Mrs. P.Zoe, dear, I'm glad to see you more calm this morning. I would be alone a little while. I'm from fair to middlin', like a bamboo cane, much the same all the year round. Don't do nuffin. What am goin' to cum ob us! We've caught this murdering Injiun, and are going to try him. I've got four plates ready, in case we miss the first shot. 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. Enjoy reading and share 14 famous quotes about Boucicaults The Octoroon with everyone. Only three of his plays were to have an American setting, The Octoroon is one of these. George. [Dora*gets water.] Irish - Dramatist December 26, 1822 - September 18, 1890. Miss Sunnyside, permit me a word; a feeling of delicacy has suspended upon my lips an avowal, which---. Yes, Mas'r George, dey was born here; and old Pete is fonder on 'em dan he is of his fiddle on a Sunday. The eye of the Eternal was on you---the blessed sun in heaven, that, looking down, struck upon this plate the image of the deed. Whar's Paul, Wahnotee? Evidence! Quotations by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, American Playwright, Born December 29, 1984. Point. Now it's cooking, laws mussey, I feel it all inside, as if it was at a lottery. Scud. Five hundred bid---it's a good price. That they become fads. Not a bale. Yonder is the boy---now is my time! 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. Hold on! [Raising his voice.] Just turn your face a leetle this way---fix your---let's see---look here. And you killed him? He and his apparatus arrived here, took the judge's likeness and his fancy, who made him overseer right off. George. [Kicks pail from underPete,*and lets him down.*]. O, you horrible man! Judy Collins, You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music." Top Quadroon And Octoroon Quotes. Paul. Scud. Ask him, I want to know; don't say I told you to inquire, but find out. O, my husband! Scud. *], [Light fires.---Draw flats and discoverPaul'sgrave.---M'Closky*dead on top of it.---Wahnoteestanding triumphantly over him.*]. When the play was performed in England it was given a happy ending, in which the mixed-race couple are united. Scud. She refuses, but Zoe steals the bottle from her anyway and runs off. I thought none but colored people worked. Is this a dream---for my brain reels with the blow? Zoe. O, let all go, but save them! Pete. No; but you, aunty, you are wise---you know every plant, don't you, and what it is good for? laws a massey! Cut all away for'ard---overboard with every bale afire. If he would only propose to marry me I would accept him, but he don't know that, and he will go on fooling, in his slow European way, until it is too late. Dido. Mrs. Peyton, George Peyton, Terrebonne is yours. 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. Tableaux.*. Dido. M'Closky. I have remarked that she is treated by the neighbors with a kind of familiar condescension that annoyed me. Then I'd like to hire a lady to go to auction and buy my hands. Point. Solon. Search him, we may find more evidence. But what do we pay for that possession? Point. Then I will go to the Red Light or the Monte Carlo and dance the floor afire. 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. Get out, you cub! What, on Terrebonne! He calls me Omenee, the Pigeon, and Miss Zoe is Ninemoosha, the Sweetheart. Pete Hamill, The darkest moments for me weren't necessarily winding up in the hospital or anything like that. Dar, do ye hear dat, ye mis'able darkies, dem gals is worth a boat load of kinder men dem is. Boucicault adapted the play from the novel The Quadroon by Thomas Mayne Reid (1856). Zoe. Dora. Wahnotee. George. Grace (a Yellow Girl, a Slave) Miss Gimber Dido (the Cook, a Slave) Mrs. Dunn. Yah! Mrs. P.Hospitality in Europe is a courtesy; here, it is an obligation. Join StageAgent today and unlock amazing theatre resources and opportunities. M'Closky. [ToMrs. George says he can "overcome the obstacle" (43), but Zoe protests that they cannot be together. Look here; I can't stand that gal! Well, he cut that for the photographing line. "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---. I must be going---it is late. See also Trivia | Goofs | Crazy Credits | Alternate Versions | Connections | Soundtracks Did You Know? Gen'l'men, my colored frens and ladies, dar's mighty bad news gone round. The earth has been stirred here lately. I'm responsible for the crittur---go on. Scud. If there is no bid for the estate and stuff, we'll sell it in smaller lots. yonder goes the Indian! "No. As they exit,M'Closkyrises from behind rock,R.,*and looks after them. So! Point. "Ma'am, your nose drawed it. M'Closky. Mrs. P.So, Pete, you are spoiling those children as usual! [Conceals himself.]. 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. 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. Point. Wood up thar, you Polio---hang on to the safety valve---guess she'll crawl off on her paddles. No; a weakness, that's all---a little water. the bags are mine---now for it!---[Opens mail-bags.] I'm writing about America's relationship to its own history. You begged me to call this morning. That Indian is a nuisance. 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. [To Jackson.] I give him back the liberty he bestowed upon me; for I can never repay him the love he bore his poor Octoroon child, on whose breast his last sigh was drawn, into whose eyes he looked with the last gaze of affection. Scud. Scud. [Pete goes down.] Where's that man from Mobile that wanted to give one hundred and eighty thousand? Wahnote*swims on---finds trail---follows him. Brightness will return amongst you. ], M'Closky. All hands aboard there---cut the starn ropes---give her headway! Where are they? Scud. Scud. 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. Zoe. save me! Coute Wahnotee in omenee dit go Wahnotee, poina la fa, comb a pine tree, la revieut sala, la fa. Well, is he not thus afflicted now? Bless'ee, Missey Zoe, here it be. Don't say that, ma'am; don't say that to a man that loves another gal. It ain't our sile, I believe, rightly; but Nature has said that where the white man sets his foot, the red man and the black man shall up sticks and stand around. Scud. 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? Why should I refer the blame to her? [Looking at watch.] Pete. Death was there beside me, and I dared not take it. [SeesPete,*who has set his pail down*L. C.up stage, and goes to sleep on it.] EnterPete,R.U.E. [he is lame]; he carries a mop and pail. The list of your slaves is incomplete---it wants one. must I learn from these poor wretches how much I owed, how I ought to pay the debt? You ign'ant Injiun, it can't hurt you! Stop; this would. And our mother, she who from infancy treated me with such fondness, she who, as you said, had most reason to spurn me, can she forget what I am? [Aside to Zoe.] How can you ask that vulgar ruffian to your table? What's dat? whew! they call it the Yankee hugging the Creole. [Knocks.] Poor little Paul! Mas'r George---ah, no, sar---don't buy me---keep your money for some udder dat is to be sold. Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. [C.] I'm sorry to intrude, but the business I came upon will excuse me. If you haven't spoiled her, I fear I have. 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. Back at Terrebonne, Zoe returns but with a sad heart, as she knows that she and George can never be together. if dey aint all lighted, like coons, on dat snake fence, just out of shot. Denora Boone, Everybody who went to Vietnam carries his or her own version of the war. 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. Paul. Be the first to contribute! Zoe. Scud. Zoe. Scudder insists that they hold a trial, and the men search for evidence. Pete. We tought dat de niggers would belong to de ole missus, and if she lost Terrebonne, we must live dere allers, and we would hire out, and bring our wages to ole Missus Peyton. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. Sorry I can't return the compliment. [Examines the ground.] Pete. George. Scud. This gal and them children belong to that boy Solon there. Zoe is your child by a quadroon slave, and you didn't free her; blood! Consarn those Liverpool English fellers, why couldn't they send something by the last mail? Scud. Lynch him! We are catching fire forward; quick, set free from the shore. Shan't I! Zoe. Scud. if you cannot be mine, O, let me not blush when I think of you. Zoe. 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. M'Closky. Ratts. Good morning, Mr. Sunnyside; Miss Dora, your servant. M'Closky. Mr. George, I am afraid, if all we hear is true, you have led a dreadful life in Europe. I'd cut my throat---or yours---yours I'd prefer. Give us evidence. No, Injiun; we deal out justice here, not revenge. "No. [*Aside to*Mrs. Go and try it, if you've a mind to. Dora. good, good nurse: you will, you will. [He is borne off in boat, struggling. Scud. Would you rob me first, and murder me afterwards? Dora. Dora. M'Closky. Dora. 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