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. M'Closky. That judgment still exists; under it and others this estate is sold to-day. Copyright 2023 Famous Quotes & Sayings. Dora. M'Closky. No, I hesitated because an attachment I had formed before I had the pleasure of seeing you had not altogether died out. Is de folks head bad? Paul. Hold your tongue---it must. The last word, an important colloquialism, was misread by the typesetter of the play. If that old nigger ain't asleep, I'm blamed. Fifteen thousand bid for the Octoroon. he's coming this way, fighting with his Injiun. Just one month ago I quitted Paris. He is sitting on on my prize! Sunny. Pete. [*Goes*L.] Paul reste el! Come, Mrs. Peyton, take my arm. [Shakes hands withGeorge.] *EnterPaul,wrestling with*Wahnotee,R.3. George. I want Pete here a minute. Scud. I only come back to find Wahnotee; whar is dat ign'ant Ingiun? Dora. Pointdexter*mounts the table with his hammer, his Clerk sits at his feet. O, dear, has he suddenly come to his senses? If I must die, give me up to the law; but save me from the tomahawk. Sunny. Dora. Ah. I'm 'most afraid to take Wahnotee to the shed, there's rum there. Hello! Who's you to set up screching?---be quiet! Of course not, you little fool; no one ever made love to you, and you can't understand; I mean, that George knows I am an heiress; my fortune would release this estate from debt. As they exit,M'Closkyrises from behind rock,R.,*and looks after them. Pete. [Goes up.]. Lafouche. [M'Closky*lowers his hand. 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. They do not notice Zoe.---[Aloud.] [Enters house.]. ExitScudderandPete,R.1. Wal, as it consarns you, perhaps you better had. Dido. What am goin' to cum ob us! Burn! Enjoy reading and share 1 famous quotes about The Octoroonwith everyone. Sunny. Grace. I heard voices. Dat's me---yer, I'm comin'---stand around dar. One hundred and forty-nine bales. George. | Contact Us What, Mr. Ratts, are you going to invest in swamps? they call it the Yankee hugging the Creole. Top a bit! 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. Miss Sunnyside, permit me a word; a feeling of delicacy has suspended upon my lips an avowal, which---. Scud. [Makes sign thatPaulwas killed by a blow on the head.]. 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. Take my shawl, Zoe. I will take the best room in the Grand Central or the Orndorff Hotel. And we all here are marks of blood---look thar, red-skin, what's that? Scud. [Knocks.] No; but you, aunty, you are wise---you know every plant, don't you, and what it is good for? Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory. Poor Injiun lub our little Paul. Paul. Excuse me ladies. [Shows plate to jury.] [Draws pistol---M'Closky*rushes on and falls atScudder'sfeet.*]. Buy me, Mas'r Ratts, do buy me, sar? Guess that you didn't leave anything female in Europe that can lift an eyelash beside that gal. You see dat hole in dar, sar. So it went, till one day the judge found the tap wouldn't run. I will! Where is Mr. Scudder? I thank Heaven you have not lived to see this day. Give us evidence. You don't see Zoe, Mr. Sunnyside. 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? Lafouche. blaze away! Mrs. P.I cannot find the entry in my husband's accounts; but you, Mr. M'Closky, can doubtless detect it. Has not my dear aunt forgotten it---she who had the most right to remember it? Since this letter would allow Mrs. Peyton to avoid selling Terrebonne, McClosky kills Paul and takes the letter. The Octoroon is appropriately considered a sensation drama, though it received the label retrospectively. It's a shame to allow that young cub to run over the Swamps and woods, hunting and fishing his life away instead of hoeing cane. [Wakes.] George. Was dat?---a cry out dar in de swamp---dar agin! Dat's right, missus! ], Scud. He gone down to de landing last night wid Mas'r Scudder; not come back since---kint make it out. [Aside to Pete.] [Stands with his hand extended towards the house, and tableau.]. Dora. Mrs. P.Hospitality in Europe is a courtesy; here, it is an obligation. Mrs. P.O, Salem! Pete. Frank Capra, If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development. Mr. Lafouche, why, how do you do, sir? Paul. Darn it, when I see a woman in trouble, I feel like selling the skin off my back. All there is there would kill one, wouldn't it? tink anybody wants you to cry? Mas'r Ratts, you hard him sing about de place where de good niggers go, de last time. Judge, my friend. 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. Denora Boone, Everybody who went to Vietnam carries his or her own version of the war. Nebber supply no more, sar---nebber dance again. Hold on, now! You see how easily I have become reconciled to my fate---so it will be with you. Zoe, what have I said to wound you? Look here, you're free, you know nary a master to hurt you now: you will stop here as long as you're a mind to, only don't look so. Dora. Wahnotee. 49, Paul, a quadroon boy, aged thirteen. I'll bear it. M'Closky. Scud. Zoe. Zoe. The buyers gather to take away the slaves they have purchased on a steamship. Yes, I'm here, somewhere, interferin'. my dear, dear father! The Judge is a little deaf. [Dances.]. George. O, my---my heart! Zoe. Zoe. No; but I loved you so, I could not bear my fate; and then I stood your heart and hers. Scud. Well---I didn't mean to kill him, did I? The auctioneer arrives, along with prospective buyers, McClosky among them. Ivan Glasenberg, Very few things hurt my young ego more than an Asian female openly shaming me for my Asian-ness. [Knocks.] [GoesR.,*and looks atWahnotee,L.,through the camera;Wahnoteesprings back with an expression of alarm.*]. The apparatus can't mistake. Scud. It contains elements of Romanticism and melodrama. I can't introduce any darned improvement there. Zoe. Dion Boucicault. M'Closky. D'ye call running away from a fellow catching him? Point. I won't strike him, even with words. See also Scud. Sunny. What! I can think of nothing but the image that remains face to face with me: so beautiful, so simple, so confiding, that I dare not express the feelings that have grown up so rapidly in my heart. Hillo! How can she then ask her father to free me? Sunny. Dam dat Injiun! Ratts. Top Boucicault The Octoroon Quotes. [DrivesChildrenaway; in escaping they tumble against and trip upSolon,who falls with tray; theChildrensteal the bananas and rolls that fall about.]. [*Seeing*Dora.] Pete. Enjoy reading and share 7 famous quotes about Boucicault The Octoroon with everyone. M'Closky. I feel so big with joy, creation ain't wide enough to hold me. [Sees tomahawk in Wahnotee's belt---draws it out and examines it.] Zoe. how sad she looks now she has no resource. No, Injiun; we deal out justice here, not revenge. O, laws-a-mussey, see dis; here's a pictur' I found stickin' in that yar telescope machine, sar! 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. Yes, near the quick there is a faint blue mark. It is certain, madam; the judge was negligent, and doubtless forgot this small formality. Point. I don't know when my time on earth will be up; but I DO know that today, I am one day closer. That part of it all is performance for the media. if I stop here, I shall hug her right off. You got four of dem dishes ready. His love for me will pass away---it shall. Mrs. P.The child was a favorite of the judge, who encouraged his gambols. What in thunder should I do with you and those devils on board my boat? Zoe. I have a restorative here---will you poor it in the glass? If he stirs, I'll put a bullet through his skull, mighty quick. It's surely worth the love that dictated it; here are the papers and accounts. I'm going to straighten this account clear out. A draft for eighty-five thousand dollars, and credit on Palisse and Co., of New Orleans, for the balance. Dora, I once made you weep; those were the only tears I caused any body. Beat that any of ye. 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. M'Closky. Because I heard that you had traduced my character. I left that siren city as I would have left a beloved woman. Scud. What! [Re-enters with phial.] Hey! They are gone!---[*Glancing at*George.] he must not see me. Do you think they would live here on such terms? M'Closky. I'll see you round the estate. ], M'Closky. O, aunt! 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! 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. [Rising.] Yes; I kept the letters, and squandered the money. Paul. Mrs. P.[L. 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