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], Paul. Paul. Point. Scud. Scud. All hands aboard there---cut the starn ropes---give her headway! Here, stay! Captain, you've loaded up here until the boat is sunk so deep in the mud she won't float. Ratts. George. What's here? Mrs. P.No, George; say you wept like a man. Just as soon as we put this cotton on board. [*Aside to*Mrs. That judgment still exists; under it and others this estate is sold to-day. No---no. I bring you news; your banker, old Lafouche, of New Orleans, is dead; the executors are winding up his affairs, and have foreclosed on all overdue mortgages, so Terrebonne is for sale. Well, ma'am, I spose there's no law agin my bidding for it. 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. You seem already familiar with the names of every spot on the estate. Hole yer tongues. Salem Scudder, a kind Yankee, was Judge Peyton's business partner; though he wishes he could save Terrebonne, he has no money. I believe Mr. M'Closky has a bill of sale on them. Squire Sunnyside is going to sell this at fifty thousand advance to-morrow.---[Looks round.] Zoe. Tableaux.*. Go on, Pete, you've waked up the Christian here, and the old hoss responds. Has not my dear aunt forgotten it---she who had the most right to remember it? Well, he gone dar hisself; why, I tink so---'cause we missed Paul for some days, but nebber tout nothin' till one night dat Injiun Wahnotee suddenly stood right dar 'mongst us---was in his war paint, and mighty cold and grave---he sit down by de fire. Now, take care what you do. Can't be ober dar an' here too---I ain't twins. With them around us, if we have not wealth, we shall at least have the home that they alone can make---. Ask him, I want to know; don't say I told you to inquire, but find out. *EnterPaul,wrestling with*Wahnotee,R.3. Wahnotee? The Octoroon (1912) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. I appeal against your usurped authority. Ratts. George. [Zoe sings without,L.]. Zoe. | Contact Us George, dear George, do you love me? Mrs. P.O, Salem! Mrs. Peyton, George Peyton, Terrebonne is yours. Darn that girl; she makes me quiver when I think of her; she's took me for all I'm worth. my dear, dear father! [falls on her knees, with her face in her hands] no---no master, but one. That's just what you must do, and do it at once, or it will be too late. He confesses it; the Indian got drunk, quarreled with him, and killed him. Very bad, aunty; and the heart aches worse, so they can get no rest. Darn me, if I couldn't raise thirty thousand on the envelope alone, and ten thousand more on the post-mark. Bless his dear old handwriting, it's all I ever saw of him. I have come to say good-by, sir; two hard words---so hard, they might break many a heart; mightn't they? Zoe. you seen dem big tears in his eyes. 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. You're trembling so, you'll fall down directly. The last word, an important colloquialism, was misread by the typesetter of the play. Dora. George. Zoe. Yes---when I saw him and Miss Zoe galloping through the green sugar crop, and doing ten dollars' worth of damage at every stride, says I, how like his old uncle he do make the dirt fly. [Inside room.] Dido. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. Well, near on five hundred dollars. If you bid me do so I will obey you---. George Peyton returns to the United States from a trip to France to find that the plantation he has inherited is in dire financial straits as a result of his late uncle's beneficence. 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! Yes, for I'd rather be black than ungrateful! Why you speak so wild? who has been teasing you? Pete. Don't say that, ma'am; don't say that to a man that loves another gal. Zoe realizes that she is in love with him too, but they cannot marry, as she is an Octoroon, and, under 19th century laws, their marriage was legally prohibited. Mrs. P.Yes; the firm has recovered itself, and I received a notice two months ago that some settlement might be anticipated. hark! Pete. Have I slept upon the benefits I received, and never saw, never felt, never knew that I was forgetful and ungrateful? [M'Closky*lowers his hand. Zoe. De time he gone just 'bout enough to cook dat dish plate. *] What a good creature she is. Mr. Peyton, I presume you have hesitated to make this avowal because you feared, in the present condition of affairs here, your object might be misconstrued, and that your attention was rather to my fortune than myself. Scud. Gosh, wouldn't I like to hab myself took! [*Points down, and shows by pantomime how he buried*Paul.]. And twenty thousand bid. Be the first to contribute! Ten years ago the judge took as overseer a bit of Connecticut hardware called M'Closky. [Raises hand to back of his neck.] Ha! O, Mr. Scudder! Never, aunt! Traduced! The Octoroon or The Lily of Louisiana is a dark tale of crime, race and slavery. Of the blood that feeds my heart, one drop in eight is black---bright red as the rest may be, that one drop poisons all the flood; those seven bright drops give me love like yours---hope like yours---ambition like yours---Life hung with passions like dew-drops on the morning flowers; but the one black drop gives me despair, for I'm an unclean thing---forbidden by the laws---I'm an Octoroon! What, Mr. Ratts, are you going to invest in swamps? Yes; you was the first to hail Judge Lynch. Mrs. P.You are out early this morning, George. Zoe, you are young; your mirror must have told you that you are beautiful. 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. [Reads.] [Outside,R.U.E.] Dis way---dis way. Zoe. I say---he smoke and smoke, but nebber look out ob de fire; well knowing dem critters, I wait a long time---den he say, "Wahnotee, great chief;" den I say nothing---smoke anoder time---last, rising to go, he turn round at door, and say berry low---O, like a woman's voice, he say, "Omenee Pangeuk,"---dat is, Paul is dead---nebber see him since. [L.] Yelping hound---take that. Hold quiet, you trash o' niggers! I'm waiting on your fifty thousand bid. Take your hand down---take it down. What? What, Zoe! I can never sleep now without dreaming. this infernal letter would have saved all. Pete. I'll clear him off there---he'll never know what stunned him. No; not you---George. I see it in your face. So it is. I shall never understand how to wound the feelings of any lady; and, if that is the custom here, I shall never acquire it. [Who has been looking about the camera.] I didn't know whether they are completely honest. Let me be sold then, that I may free his name. "No. Alas! ah! [Shows plate. Pete. George offers to take her to a different country, but Zoe insists that she stay to help Terrebonne; Scudder then appears and suggests that George marry Dora. [SeesPete,*who has set his pail down*L. C.up stage, and goes to sleep on it.] Be the first to contribute! Pete. See also Boucicault The Octoroon Quotes & Sayings. With Dora's wealth, he explains, Terrebonne will not be sold and the slaves will not have to be separated. M'Closky. George. Scud. Mrs. P.I expect an important letter from Liverpool; away with you, Paul; bring the mail-bags here. Zoe, listen to me, then. Good morning, Mr. Sunnyside; Miss Dora, your servant. No; a weakness, that's all---a little water. M'Closky. George. Here she is---Zoe!---water---she faints. Unlock this Study Guide! See Injiun; look dar [shows him plate], see dat innocent: look, dar's de murderer of poor Paul. Ages 12-17: Camp Broadway Ensemble @ Carnegie Hall. Away with him---put him down the aft hatch, till we rig his funeral. O! If she could not accept me, who could? 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. *] Now, give it to me. [Brings hammer down.] Ay, ay! Herein the true melodramatic hijinks that first defined "The Octoroon" ensue: a young, nouveau plantation owner George (Gardner in whiteface) is trying to save the remnants of his family's. Denora Boone, Everybody who went to Vietnam carries his or her own version of the war. forgive your poor child. George. You got four of dem dishes ready. M'Closky. A mistake, sar---forty-six. Pete. 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. George reluctantly agrees. That's a challenge to begin a description of my feminine adventures. 1, Solon, a guess boy, and good waiter.". [2] Among antebellum melodramas, it was considered second in popularity only to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852).[3]. Then buy the hands along with the property. Pete, as you came here, did you pass Paul and the Indian with the letter-bags? Top, you varmin! No, no! Mrs. P.O, sir, I don't value the place for its price, but for the many happy days I've spent here; that landscape, flat and uninteresting though it may be, is full of charm for me; those poor people, born around me, growing up about my heart, have bounded my view of life; and now to lose that homely scene, lose their black, ungainly faces; O, sir, perhaps you should be as old as I am, to feel as I do, when my past life is torn away from me. Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. I thought none but colored people worked. Scud. Hee! But now that vagrant love is---eh? George. I always said you were the darndest thief that ever escaped a white jail to misrepresent the North to the South. George, do you see that hand you hold? O, my husband! Peyton.]. 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. Come, cheer up, old friend. 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? The injiun! The Oxford English Dictionary cites The Octoroon with the earliest record of the word "mashup" with the quote: "He don't understand; he speaks a mash up of Indian, French, and Mexican." Pointdexter*mounts the table with his hammer, his Clerk sits at his feet. Pete. Paul. Ah! [Looking at watch.] Let me proceed by illustration. *, M'Olosky. Research Playwrights, Librettists, Composers and Lyricists. So! Peyton.] Let him answer for the boy, then. | Contact Us he does not know, he does not know! Dora. That's right. 49, Paul, a quadroon boy, aged thirteen. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory. things have got so jammed in on top of us, we ain't got time to put kid gloves on to handle them. 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. Mrs. P.Hospitality in Europe is a courtesy; here, it is an obligation. His new cotton gins broke down, the steam sugar-mills burst up, until he finished off with his folly what Mr. M'Closky with his knavery began. Work! Zoe. he's allers in for it. [Calls off.] Scud. George. I say, then, air you honest men? It makes my blood so hot I feel my heart hiss. Sunny. M'Closky. George, O, forgive me! here's Mas'r Sunnyside, and Missey Dora, jist drov up. George. Lafouche. Heaven has denied me children; so all the strings of my heart have grown around and amongst them, like the fibres and roots of an old tree in its native earth. See also Trivia | Goofs | Crazy Credits | Alternate Versions | Connections | Soundtracks Did You Know? Wahnotee Patira na sepau assa wigiran. Pete. Zoe. What? It's a good drink to see her come into the cotton fields---the niggers get fresh on the sight of her. Zoe. Scud. What court of law would receive such evidence? Go outside, there; listen to what you hear, then go down to the quarters and tell the boys, for I can't do it. [R. C.] That's my son---buy him, Mas'r Ratts; he's sure to sarve you well. George, you know not what you say. In a few hours that man, my master, will come for me; he has paid my price, and he only consented to let me remain here this one night, because Mrs. Peyton promised to give me up to him to-day. Gain full access to show guides, character breakdowns, auditions, monologues and more! [Laughing.] Seize him, then! Sunnyside, Pointdexter, Jackson, Peyton; here it is---the Liverpool post-mark, sure enough!---[Opens letter---reads.] That's Solon's wife and children, Judge. The auctioneer arrives, along with prospective buyers, McClosky among them. I'm from fair to middlin', like a bamboo cane, much the same all the year round. It carried that easy on mortgage. Pete Hamill, The darkest moments for me weren't necessarily winding up in the hospital or anything like that. I'll put the naughty parts in French. The White Slave; or, the Octoroon (1913) - Quotes - IMDb Edit The White Slave; or, the Octoroon (1913) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. All. Mrs. P.Read, George. Why, Minnie, why don't you run when you hear, you lazy crittur? An extremely beautiful young slave girl, who is treated like a member of the family, Zoe is kind, generous, and adored by every man who lays eyes on her. Pete. Point. Consarn those Liverpool English fellers, why couldn't they send something by the last mail? for me---look ye here! Well, what d'ye say, Lafouche---d'ye smile? I bid seven thousand, which is the last dollar this family possesses. [Aside to Sunnyside.] He is incapable of any but sincere and pure feelings---so are you. Mrs. P.The child was a favorite of the judge, who encouraged his gambols. Tousand dollars, Massa Thibodeaux. I am his love---he loves an Octoroon. this is worth taking to---in this desk the judge used to keep one paper I want---this should be it. George. ya! Cum, for de pride of de family, let every darky look his best for the judge's sake---dat ole man so good to us, and dat ole woman---so dem strangers from New Orleans shall say, Dem's happy darkies, dem's a fine set of niggars; every one say when he's sold, "Lor' bless dis yer family I'm gwine out of, and send me as good a home.". Scud. don't think too hardly of your poor father. Paul! Zoe, they shall not take you from us while I live. Each word you utter makes my love sink deeper into my heart. but the deed that freed you was not lawful. ], Scud. No other cause to hate---to envy me---to be jealous of me---eh? No; the hitching line was cut with a knife. Zoe. [Calling at door.] Mas'r Ratts, you hard him sing about de place where de good niggers go, de last time. Zoe. Scud. That's enough. Where am I to get it? Ratts. Scud. The New York Times noted 'its striking merits as a sensational drama' *EnterPete, Dido, Solon, Minnie,and*Grace. [Points with knife off,R.] D'ye see that tree?---it's called a live oak, and is a native here; beside it grows a creeper; year after year that creeper twines its long arms round and round the tree---sucking the earth dry all about its roots---living on its life---overrunning its branches, until at last the live oak withers and dies out. For what I have done, let me be tried. 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. O, Zoe, my child! Were they all born on this estate? See also Trivia | Goofs | Crazy Credits | Alternate Versions | Connections | Soundtracks Getting Started | Contributor Zone 3, Pete, a house servant. Eleven hundred---going---going---sold! I don't know; she may as well hear the hull of it. What? The sun is rising. [Offers hand,Georgebows coldly,R. C.] [aside.] Search him, we may find more evidence. Dora. Point. Why don't you speak, sir? M'Closky. drop dat banana! Nebber supply no more, sar---nebber dance again. Go, Minnie, tell Pete; run! Do not weep, George. All Rights Reserved. ha---git out! George. Isn't he sweet! Then, as I knelt there, weeping for courage, a snake rattled beside me. [Sits down.] George. No! Judge, you can raise the hull on mortgage---going for half its value. Dora. there again!---no; it was only the wind over the canes. look at these fingers; do you see the nails are of a bluish tinge? Mrs. P.My dear George, you are left in your uncle's will heir to this estate. Those little flowers can live, but I cannot. He's yours, Captain Ratts, Magnolia steamer. | Sitemap |. They are gone!---[*Glancing at*George.] When George asks why, Zoe explains that she is an octoroon, and the law prevents a white man from marrying anyone with the smallest black heritage. 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