Be the first to contribute! [Sits,R. C.]. M'Closky. *EnterPaul,wrestling with*Wahnotee,R.3. Dora. M'Closky. come home---there are strangers in the house. The devil I am! It contains elements of Romanticism and melodrama. Now it's cooking, laws mussey, I feel it all inside, as if it was at a lottery. for, darn me, if I can find out. Sunny. [Enters inner room,R.U.E.]. Scud. Cora, educated in Britain, returns to her fathers plantation in Louisiana to explore the truth about her mother's. "Whar's Paul?" Dora. Now, I feel bad about my share in the business. [Re-enters from boat.] war's de crowd gone? Yours, &c, James Brown." Dido. See also Zoe! 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? It was like trying to make a shark sit up and beg for treats. Why you out in de swamp dis time ob night---you catch de fever sure---you is all wet. Scud. [Retires.]. Guess that you didn't leave anything female in Europe that can lift an eyelash beside that gal. That one black drop of blood burns in her veins and lights up her heart like a foggy sun. I dare say you left at least a dozen beloved women there, at the same time. He who can love so well is honest---don't speak ill of poor Wahnotee. Do not weep, George. [Looking at watch.] I shall never understand how to wound the feelings of any lady; and, if that is the custom here, I shall never acquire it. Now, take care what you do. Dora. But out it flew, free for everybody or anybody to beg, borrow, or steal. 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. Ratts. He didn't ought to bid against a lady. EnterPete,with lantern, andScudder,with note book,R. Scud. I think we may begin business. [*Exit*Dora,L.U.E.] What on earth does that child mean or want? Dora. Pete. Scud. It concerns the residents of a Louisiana plantation called Terrebonne, and sparked debates about the abolition of slavery and the role of theatre in politics. We are always in a perpetual state of being created and creating ourselves. Some of you niggers run and hole de hosses; and take dis, Dido. "But, sir, it ain't agreeable." We'll hire out our slaves, and live on their wages. blaze away! No, dear. Is my plantation at Comptableau worth this? I left my loves and my creditors equally inconsolable. M'Closky. I can't introduce any darned improvement there. European, I suppose. Go on, Colonel---Colonel Pointdexter, ma'am---the mortgagee, auctioneer, and general agent. [George*tries to regain his gun;Wahnoteerefuses to give it up;Paul,quietly takes it from him and remonstrates with him.*]. don't think too hardly of your poor father. Ten miles we've had to walk, because some blamed varmin onhitched our dug-out. Calm as a tombstone, and with about as much life. I also feel that demonstrations wouldn't go on unless there is a TV camera. Yes, near the quick there is a faint blue mark. Scud. One thousand bid. | Privacy Policy [1] Lynch him! To be alive is to be breathing. Now, gentlemen, I'm proud to submit to you the finest lot of field hands and house servants that was ever offered for competition; they speak for themselves, and do credit to their owners.---[Reads.] Work, Zoe, is the salt that gives savor to life. No, it won't; we have confessed to Dora that we love each other. Pete. 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. [Wahnotee*rushes on, and at*M'Closky,L.H.]. No, sar; nigger nebber cut stick on Terrebonne; dat boy's dead, sure. look sar! shall we have one law for the red-skin and another for the white? Paul. You don't see Zoe, Mr. Sunnyside. That's right. The murder is captured on Scudder's photographic apparatus. Weenee Paul. Farewell, Dora. Has not my dear aunt forgotten it---she who had the most right to remember it? Scud. This blow has staggered me some. Now I'm ready. O, law, sir, dat debil Closky, he tore hisself from de gen'lam, knock me down, take my light, and trows it on de turpentine barrels, and de shed's all afire! The Octoroon This project is the construction of an annotated, digitized text of the American and British versions of Dion Boucicault's controversial 1859 melodrama of interracial relationships and plantation life in antebellum Louisiana, with an archive of materials on performance for scholarly and pedagogical use. M'Closky. 'Top; you look, you Wahnotee; you see dis rag, eh? George. D'ye feel it? I say, Zoe, do you hear that? I don't know; she may as well hear the hull of it. The Injiun means that he buried him there! I felt it---and how she can love! Mrs. P.Why didn't you mention this before? Hold on, you'll see. 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. [Aside.] I'll put the naughty parts in French. Scud. "No. Lafouche. For the first time, twenty-five thousand---last time! 1, Solon, a guess boy, and good waiter.". [R. C.] Pardon me, madam, but do you know these papers? Glendon Swarthout, Never believe in any faith younger than you are." George. Scud. And, strangers, ain't we forgetting there's a lady present. Scud. if this is so, she's mine! Consarn those Liverpool English fellers, why couldn't they send something by the last mail? M'Closky. And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. Paul! Zoe. Point. there again!---no; it was only the wind over the canes. Improvements---anything, from a stay-lace to a fire-engine. [Aside.] Scud. Sunnyside, Pointdexter, Jackson, Peyton; here it is---the Liverpool post-mark, sure enough!---[Opens letter---reads.] Zoe. Ain't he! I'm responsible for the crittur---go on. Ratts. What am goin' to cum ob us! Pete. Impossible; you have seen no one; whom can you mean? Will ye? *Enter*Wahnotee,R.;they are all about to rush on him. Gentlemen, the sale takes place at three. [Calling at door.] George, you know not what you say. ], George. Dora. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. He and his apparatus arrived here, took the judge's likeness and his fancy, who made him overseer right off. Why should I refer the blame to her? [Takes them.] "The free papers of my daughter, Zoe, registered February 4th, 1841." Stephen King, I have a feeling that demonstrations don't accomplish anything. there it comes---it comes---don't you hear a footstep on the dry leaves? 'Tain't you he has injured, 'tis the white man, whose laws he has offended. Hello! 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. Do you know what that is? [Smiling.] Why don't you speak, sir? I know then that the boy was killed with that tomahawk---the red-skin owns it---the signs of violence are all round the shed---this apparatus smashed---ain't it plain that in a drunken fit he slew the boy, and when sober concealed the body yonder? [Rising.] Lafouche. This lynch law is a wild and lawless proceeding. 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. Mrs. P.You are out early this morning, George. Sunny. Pete. Paul has promised me a bear and a deer or two. [Knocks.] Ratts. 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. Wahnotee? Good morning, Colonel. I must keep you, Captain, to the eleven hundred. Come, Paul, are you ready? Pete. Go and try it, if you've a mind to. if I stop here, I shall hug her right off. 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 a good creature she is. A photographic plate. Act II Summary. George. He's going to do an heroic act; don't spile it. Whar's Paul, Wahnotee? Then I shall never leave Terrebonne---the drink, nurse; the drink; that I may never leave my home---my dear, dear home. Point. dead---and above him---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. Paul. No! [Speaking in his ear-trumpet.] I say, I'd like to say summit soft to the old woman; perhaps it wouldn't go well, would it? What more d'ye want---ain't that proof enough? M'Closky. I'll bear it. We've caught this murdering Injiun, and are going to try him. is this true?---no, it ain't---darn it, say it ain't. EnterLafoucheand*Jackson,L. Jackson. Burn! If we can't behave like Christians, let's try and act like gentlemen. Stop, Zoe; come here! Zoe. [Aside.] Dora. Here! Zoe. But for Heaven's sake go---here comes the crowd. [Knocks.] Not lawful---no---but I am going to where there is no law---where there is only justice. Jacob, your accuser is that picter of the crime---let that speak---defend yourself. Scud. We have known each other but a few days, but to me those days have been worth all the rest of my life. Scud. [Eagerly.] Zoe, must we immolate our lives on her prejudice? I don't like that man. the apparatus can't lie. [Knocks.] the bags are mine---now for it!---[Opens mail-bags.] Then, if they go, they'll take Zoe---she'll follow them. Yonder the boy still lurks with those mail-bags; the devil still keeps him here to tempt me, darn his yellow skin. Am I late? "Sign that," says the overseer; "it's only a formality." Dis yer prop'ty to be sold---old Terrebonne---whar we all been raised, is gwine---dey's gwine to tak it away---can't stop here no how. Dora, I once made you weep; those were the only tears I caused any body. Scud. A puppy, if he brings any of his European airs here we'll fix him.---[Aloud.] The Steamer moves off---fire kept up---M'Closky*re-enters,*R.,*swimming on.*. Zoe. She didn't mind how kind old judge was to her; and Solon, too, he'll holler, and break de ole lady's heart. You have been tried---honestly tried and convicted. What's this, eh? "When she goes along, she just leaves a streak of love behind her. Sunny. O, no; Mas'r Scudder, don't leave Mas'r Closky like dat---don't, sa---'tain't what good Christian should do. Mas'r Ratts, you hard him sing about de place where de good niggers go, de last time. Paul. Here's the Picayune [producing paper] with the advertisement. Pete. Poor Injiun lub our little Paul. You know you can't be jealous of a poor creature like me. 2, the yellow girl Grace, with two children---Saul, aged four, and Victoria five." [Goes up.]. Pete, you old turkey-buzzard, saddle my mare. What's he doing; is he asleep? Ratts. [Brings hammer down.] Mrs. P.Read, George. [*Takes Indian's tomahawk and steals to*Paul. Here we are on the selvage of civilization. if you cannot be mine, O, let me not blush when I think of you. [Returns to table and drinks.]. 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. What, Zoe! [Puts his head under the darkening apron.] Top, you varmin! He gone down to de landing last night wid Mas'r Scudder; not come back since---kint make it out. I have remarked that she is treated by the neighbors with a kind of familiar condescension that annoyed me. De time he gone just 'bout enough to cook dat dish plate. George. Do you know what I am? I'll have her, if it costs me my life! George. It's soooo dark. [Dances.]. George. M'Closky. He don't understand; he speaks a mash-up of Indian and Mexican. That Indian is a nuisance. Dar, do ye hear dat, ye mis'able darkies, dem gals is worth a boat load of kinder men dem is. No, Pete; no, I won't. Were they all born on this estate? The Octoroon Important Quotes 1. He is sitting on on my prize! I want Pete here a minute. Now, gentlemen, we shall proceed to business. My love! Pete. [Pete goes down.] Mrs. P.I expect an important letter from Liverpool; away with you, Paul; bring the mail-bags here. Point. You will not give me to that man? [ToMrs. Zoe. Since this letter would allow Mrs. Peyton to avoid selling Terrebonne, McClosky kills Paul and takes the letter. Thib. Go on, Pete, you've waked up the Christian here, and the old hoss responds. 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. Scud. [Advances.] Let him answer for the boy, then. Zoe. This is your own house; we are under your uncle's roof; recollect yourself. Pete. No, no! He calls me Omenee, the Pigeon, and Miss Zoe is Ninemoosha, the Sweetheart. D'ye hear it---nearer---nearer---ah! 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. Hugh vieu. I never killed a man in my life---and civilization is so strong in me I guess I couldn't do it---I'd like to, though! [Scudder*takes out watch.*]. "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." Dido. Your eyes are red. [Sits,R.], Dora. [Zoe sings without,L.]. 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? Dido. And I remained here to induce you to offer that heart to Dora! The first lot on here is the estate in block, with its sugar-houses, stock, machines, implements, good dwelling-houses and furniture. [Returning with rifle.] 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. Just as soon as we put this cotton on board. Pete. I've been to the negro quarters. Hi! Scad. Lafouche. | Sitemap |. Hold on, George Peyton---stand back. there's that noise again! burn! 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. George. Enjoy reading and share 14 famous quotes about Boucicaults The Octoroon with everyone. The proof is here, in my heart. ], M'Closky. Each word you utter makes my love sink deeper into my heart. Yah! Zoe. 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. How the flames crack. [Exit slowly, as if concealing himself,R.U.E. George. EnterZoe,L.U.E.,very pale, and stands on table.---M'Closkyhitherto has taken no interest in the sale, now turns his chair. At New Orleans, they said, "She's pretty, very pretty, but no brains." Providence has chosen your executioner. It's a good drink to see her come into the cotton fields---the niggers get fresh on the sight of her. Lafouche. . I feel so big with joy, creation ain't wide enough to hold me. Look here, the boy knows and likes me, Judge; let him come my way? I appeal against your usurped authority. Mr. George is in love with Zoe. He said I want a nigger. Why not! Mrs. P.[Embracing him.] Lafouche. As they exit,M'Closkyrises from behind rock,R.,*and looks after them. The judge drew money like Bourbon whiskey from a barrel, and never turned off the tap. George. All Rights Reserved. [Raising his voice.] (p. 221) Daniel J. Siegel. they call it the Yankee hugging the Creole. Then, as I knelt there, weeping for courage, a snake rattled beside me. if I had you one by one, alone in the swamp, I'd rip ye all. Mr. Sunnyside, I can't do this job of showin' round the folks; my stomach goes agin it. Come, Mrs. Peyton, take my arm. Scud. he must not see me. I shall knock it down to the Squire---going---gone---for one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. [Music.]. Look there, jurymen. Zoe. Solon. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. 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. What, sar? George. [The knives disappear.] George. Zoe. Top Quadroon And Octoroon Quotes. Dora. yonder goes the Indian! O, none for me; I never eat. 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. There are no witnesses but a rum bottle and an old machine. Essay Topics. George. "Ma'am, your nose drawed it. where am I? Zoe. M'Closky. 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. No; Wahnotee is a gentle, honest creature, and remains here because he loves that boy with the tenderness of a woman. Scene.---The Wharf, The Steamer "Magnolia" alongside,L.;a bluff rock,R.U.E. Ratts*discovered, superintending the loading of ship. But the creditors will not claim the gal? "No, ma'am, the truth seldom is.". Mrs. P.The child was a favorite of the judge, who encouraged his gambols. Wahnotee tracks him down and confronts him; in the ensuing struggle, Wahnotee kills McClosky. [Shows plate to jury.] George. So we believe; and so mad are the folks around, if they catch the red-skin they'll lynch him sure. Come, Miss Dora, let me offer you my arm. Point. Pete. Point. I'll sweep these Peytons from this section of the country. I thank Heaven you have not lived to see this day. what a bright, gay creature she is! What! Ratts. Mrs. P.Yes, there is a hope left yet, and I cling to it. [Throws mail bags down and sits on them,L. C.] Pret, now den go. When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Yes, for I'd rather be black than ungrateful! Scudder insists that they hold a trial, and the men search for evidence. And we all got rich from it, so, you know, there's a benefit from it. I will take the best room in the Grand Central or the Orndorff Hotel. 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---. Paul. It carried that easy on mortgage. M'Closky. Whoever said so lied. D'ye hear that, Jacob? [L.] Let the old darkey alone---eight hundred for that boy. Dem doctors ain't no 'count; dey don't know nuffin. George, O, forgive me! I must operate and take my own likeness too---how debbel I do dat? You say the proceeds of the sale will not cover his debts. Dat's right, missus! It's dem black trash, Mas'r George; dis ere property wants claring; dem's getting too numerous round; when I gets time I'll kill some on 'em, sure! Zoe. [Draws revolver.] Gain full access to show guides, character breakdowns, auditions, monologues and more! 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'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. M'Closky. why, clar out! Tousand dollars, Massa Thibodeaux. ---Cane-brake Bayou.---Bank,C.---Triangle Fire,R. C.---Canoe,C.---M'Closky*discovered asleep. Dora. 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? 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. What court of law would receive such evidence? Will she gladly see you wedded to the child of her husband's slave? Hold quiet, you trash o' niggers! what, dem?---get away! That's enough. M'Closky,Why not? See also Trivia | Goofs | Crazy Credits | Alternate Versions | Connections | Soundtracks Don't be afraid; it ain't going for that, Judge. Mrs. P.Hospitality in Europe is a courtesy; here, it is an obligation. Scud. George. George and Zoe reveal their love for each other, but Zoe rejects George's marriage proposal. Point. That's just what you must do, and do it at once, or it will be too late. the rat's out. M'Closky. [Sits,R.] Look thar! Sunnyside, how good you are; so like my poor Peyton. No; a weakness, that's all---a little water. yes, plenty of 'em; bill of costs; account with Citizens' Bank---what's this? Boucicault's manuscript actually reads "Indian, French and 'Merican." What, you won't, won't ye? Dora. Pete. Letters! M'Closky. That part of it all is performance for the media. M'Closky. George. Zoe. I---my mother was---no, no---not her! Pete. Guess they nebber was born---dem tings! [They get on table.]. Sunny. What? [Opens desk.] Never mind. You seem already familiar with the names of every spot on the estate. O, Mr. Scudder! [Rises.] 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. What was her past? Squire Sunnyside is going to sell this at fifty thousand advance to-morrow.---[Looks round.] Mrs. P.Wahnotee, will you go back to your people? Darn that girl; she makes me quiver when I think of her; she's took me for all I'm worth. Dora. Dora. [Opens it.] Zoe (an Octoroon Girl, free, the Natural Child of the late Judge by a Quadroon Slave) Mrs. J. H. Allen. She refuses, but Zoe steals the bottle from her anyway and runs off. can you smile at this moment? What you's gwine to do, missey? 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. [2] Among antebellum melodramas, it was considered second in popularity only to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852).[3]. drop dat banana! I'll gib it you! That's his programme---here's a pocket-book. Sunny. Aunt, I am prouder and happier to be your nephew and heir to the ruins of Terrebonne, than I would have been to have had half Louisiana without you. Scud. you seen dem big tears in his eyes. Would you now? Whar's de coffee? Says he'll go if I'll go with him. This New York Times article cautions its readers against jumping to conclusions about Boucicault's intentions in the writing of the play and downplays . Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. No, it ain't; because, just then, what does the judge do, but hire another overseer---a Yankee---a Yankee named Salem Scudder. George. How are we sure the boy is dead at all? Zoe. Scud. Zoe. You'se a dead man, Mas'r Clusky---you got to b'lieve dat. If it don't stain de cup, your wicked ole life's in danger, sure! save me! [falls on her knees, with her face in her hands] no---no master, but one. Pete. No, sar; but dem vagabonds neber take de 'specable straight road, dey goes by de swamp. Hillo! I'm afraid to die; yet I am more afraid to live. Ivan Glasenberg, Very few things hurt my young ego more than an Asian female openly shaming me for my Asian-ness. I can go no farther. 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. *], [Light fires.---Draw flats and discoverPaul'sgrave.---M'Closky*dead on top of it.---Wahnoteestanding triumphantly over him.*]. Pete. Paul. Hold on! Yes, missus. Nebber supply no more, sar---nebber dance again. Paul! The word Octoroon signifies "one-eighth blood" or the child of a Quadroon by a white. Zoe, if all I possess would buy your freedom, I would gladly give it. [Kicks pail from underPete,*and lets him down.*]. Mrs. P.She need not keep us waiting breakfast, though. 4, the Octoroon girl, Zoe.". Be the first to contribute! Scud. Mas'r George---ah, no, sar---don't buy me---keep your money for some udder dat is to be sold. Ratts. We can leave this country, and go far away where none can know. At college they said I was a fool---I must be. O, laws-a-mussey, see dis; here's a pictur' I found stickin' in that yar telescope machine, sar! Scud. [Georgepours contents of phial in glass. You got four of dem dishes ready. Then I will go to the Red Light or the Monte Carlo and dance the floor afire. Let me be sold then, that I may free his name. [Aside,C.] Insolent as usual.---[Aloud.] Well, that's all right; but as he can't marry her, and as Miss Dora would jump at him---. ], M'Closky. Zoe. She is one-eighth black, the daughter of a "quadroon" slave woman, and is very. M'Closky. Paul. Look dar! Ratts. George. No, ma'am; here's the plan of it. Enjoy reading and share 1 famous quotes about The Octoroon with everyone. Scud. What, on Terrebonne? Ugh! No, Injiun; we deal out justice here, not revenge. Mr. Scudder, good morning. Pete. I will! [Enters house.]. Here, stay! Don't do nuffin. Zoe. That they become fads. [R.] Well, what's the use of argument whar guilt sticks out so plain; the boy and Injiun were alone when last seen. The list of your slaves is incomplete---it wants one. No; like a sugar cane; so dry outside, one would never think there was so much sweetness within. Listen to me. Point. George is courted by the rich Southern belle heiress Dora Sunnyside, but he finds himself falling in love with Zoe, the daughter of his uncle through one of the slaves. So I came here to you; to you, my own dear nurse; to you, who so often hushed me to sleep when I was a child; who dried my eyes and put your little Zoe to rest. Dido. Zoe. Can't be ober dar an' here too---I ain't twins. And you killed him? Enjoy reading and share 7 famous quotes about Boucicault The Octoroon with everyone. Scud. If you bid me do so I will obey you---. George. McClosky has proved that Judge Peyton did not succeed in legally freeing her, as he had meant to do. M'Closky. A large table is in theC.,at back. You ign'ant Injiun, it can't hurt you! George. No, no! Solon. He plans to buy her and make her his mistress. that he isn't to go on fooling in his slow---. Why, Minnie, why don't you run when you hear, you lazy crittur? Author: Dahlia Lithwick. [*Exit*Mrs. Peyton*and*George,L.U.E.] A slave! he's coming this way, fighting with his Injiun. 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! George, you cannot marry me; the laws forbid it! Deborah Blake, I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. 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. [Laughs.]. What was this here Scudder? Paul. M'Closky. He stood gazing in wonder at her work-basket as if it was something extraordinary. is dat him creeping dar? [Weeping.] Go on, Colonel. Synopsis. Captain, you've loaded up here until the boat is sunk so deep in the mud she won't float. Ha, ha!---[Calls.] Work! Pete. No, [looks off,R.] 'tis Pete and the servants---they come this way. go on. Zoe. ], Paul. No, I'm the skurriest crittur at a fight you ever see; my legs have been too well brought up to stand and see my body abused; I take good care of myself, I can tell you. George. Come along; she har what we say, and she's cryin' for us. Scud. Evidence! I've got hold of the tail of a rat---come out. Pete. The Octoroon or The Lily of Louisiana is a dark tale of crime, race and slavery. They do not notice Zoe.---[Aloud.] Zoe, you are suffering---your lips are white---your cheeks are flushed. He looked in to see what stopped it, and pulled out a big mortgage. You've made me cry, then, and I hate you both! Well, then, what has my all-cowardly heart got to skeer me so for? Yes; you was the first to hail Judge Lynch. Dora. You're bidding to separate them, Judge. Say, Mas'r Scudder, take me in dat telescope? tink anybody wants you to cry? *EnterMrs. PeytonandScudder, M'Closkyand*Pointdexter,R. M'Closky. Mrs. P.George, you are incorrigible. he does not know, he does not know! Ask him, I want to know; don't say I told you to inquire, but find out. [R.U.E.] I was raised on dis yar plantation---neber see no door in it---always open, sar, for stranger to walk in. Scud. 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