Say what you know---not what you heard. [*Enter*George,C.] Ah! Mrs. P.Hospitality in Europe is a courtesy; here, it is an obligation. 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. Let me be sold then, that I may free his name. Dora! The Octoroon (1913) - Quotes - IMDb Menu Edit The Octoroon (1913) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. I see it in your face. Do you know what the niggers round here call that sight? Zoe. Mrs. P.My dear George, you are left in your uncle's will heir to this estate. And, strangers, ain't we forgetting there's a lady present. You see dat hole in dar, sar. [Fire seen,R.]. The proof is here, in my heart. Not a picayune. Pete, speak to the red-skin. Burn, burn! Scud. Scud. [Music. [They rush onM'Closky,and disarm him.] [Doraattempts to take it.] Boucicault The Octoroon Quotes & Sayings. D'ye feel it? that you will not throw me from you like a poisoned thing! 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---. Be the first to contribute! By ten I was playing competitively. Quotations by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, American Playwright, Born December 29, 1984. M'Closky. Scud. No, [looks off,R.] 'tis Pete and the servants---they come this way. [Brings hammer down.] To Jacob M'Closky, the Octoroon girl, Zoe, twenty-five thousand dollars. M'Closky. I must launch my dug-out, and put for the bay, and in a few hours I shall be safe from pursuit on board of one of the coasting schooners that run from Galveston to Matagorda. what will become of her when I am gone? Now, den, if Grace dere wid her chil'n were all sold, she'll begin screechin' like a cat. [Exit slowly, as if concealing himself,R.U.E. George. Enjoy the best Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Quotes at BrainyQuote. To be alive is to be breathing. Mrs. P.Poor child! I'm afraid they must be right; I can't understand a word of all this. Yah! The sheriff from New Orleans has taken possession---Terrebonne is in the hands of the law. [Pause.] When you get discouraged or depressed, try changing your attitude from negative to positive and see how life can change for you. Why don't you speak, sir? Ya!---as he? Deep songs don't come from the surface; they come from the deep down. [Draws pistol---M'Closky*rushes on and falls atScudder'sfeet.*]. Alas! Some of those sirens of Paris, I presume, [Pause.] Synopsis. Evidence! Don't b'lieve dey'll turn out niggers when dey're growed; dey'll come out sunthin else. Pete. come home---there are strangers in the house. M'Closky. Well, then, what has my all-cowardly heart got to skeer me so for? Now, gentlemen, we shall proceed to business. If we can't behave like Christians, let's try and act like gentlemen. It makes my blood so hot I feel my heart hiss. Scud. Good morning, Mr. Sunnyside; Miss Dora, your servant. Well, what d'ye say, Lafouche---d'ye smile? Hold your tongue---it must. Research Playwrights, Librettists, Composers and Lyricists. George. M'Closky. [Sits down.] Zoe. Dora. We are catching fire forward; quick, set free from the shore. No; not you---George. [Scudder*takes out watch.*]. Scud. It's going up dar, whar dere's no line atween folks. Hello, Pete, I never heard of that affair. M'Closky. Dora. [Knocks.] Dar, do ye hear dat, ye mis'able darkies, dem gals is worth a boat load of kinder men dem is. What was her name? I'll put the naughty parts in French. Poor little Paul---poor little nigger! [Returns to table and drinks.]. he must not see me. Be the first to contribute! George. I don't know; she may as well hear the hull of it. No, sar; but dem vagabonds neber take de 'specable straight road, dey goes by de swamp. Pete. M'Closky. Grace. Pete. Ratts. I'll trouble you for that piece of baccy, Judge---thank you---so, gentlemen, as life is short, we'll start right off. Coventry Patmore, if a man has no stability when you meet him, you may want to stay clear of him. [Opens desk.] Lafouche. I've got four plates ready, in case we miss the first shot. Every word of it, Squire. What am goin' to cum ob us! It's surely worth the love that dictated it; here are the papers and accounts. Sign that receipt, captain, and save me going up to the clerk. You don't come here to take life easy. Zoe. Hi! How are we sure the boy is dead at all? Ten years ago the judge took as overseer a bit of Connecticut hardware called M'Closky. Come, Zoe, don't be a fool; I'd marry you if I could, but you know I can't; so just say what you want. You killed the boy to steal this letter from the mail-bags---you stole this letter, that the money should not arrive in time to save the Octoroon; had it done so, the lien on the estate would have ceased, and Zoe be free. You begged me to call this morning. Seeking 2 Actor Team for Spring A mistake, sar---forty-six. She refuses, but Zoe steals the bottle from her anyway and runs off. George. O, let all go, but save them! Those free papers ain't worth the sand that's on 'em. What! Scud. M'Closky hates Scudder in return, especially because they both love Zoe, Mr. Peyton's "octoroon" daughter, Zoe. McClosky, however, outbids her for Zoe; George is restrained from attacking him by his friends. See also Trivia | Goofs | Crazy Credits | Alternate Versions | Connections | Soundtracks Getting Started | Contributor Zone [R.] Well, what's the use of argument whar guilt sticks out so plain; the boy and Injiun were alone when last seen. Scud. 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? Dion Boucicault. must I learn from these poor wretches how much I owed, how I ought to pay the debt? what are you blowing about like a steamboat with one wheel for? Zoe. In comparison, a quadroon would have one quarter African ancestry and a mulatto for the most part has historically implied half African ancestry. Search him, we may find more evidence. ", Zoe. 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? O, golly! Mrs. P.George, you are incorrigible. Where's that man from Mobile that wanted to give one hundred and eighty thousand? How the flames crack. The Octoroon was a controversial play on both sides of the slavery debate when it debuted, as both abolitionists and pro-slavery advocates believed the play took the other camp's side. M'Closky. One hundred and forty-nine bales. 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. Dido. ain't that a pooty gun. Happy to read and share the best inspirational Boucicault The Octoroon quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes. If Omenee remain, Wahnotee will die in Terrebonne. Point. Scud. O! 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! Boucicault's manuscript actually reads "Indian, French and 'Merican." Zoe. Mrs. P.[Embracing him.] Pete. What! You'll find him scenting round the rum store, hitched up by the nose. Point. Hark! Scud. 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. I want you to buy Terrebonne. George, do you see that hand you hold? Adam had a job, a place to live, and food that he could provide for his woman. But what do we pay for that possession? [Searching him.] Zoe, listen to me, then. forgive your poor child. I will! [The knives disappear.] That's a challenge to begin a description of my feminine adventures. Pete. You got dat bottle of rum hid under your blanket---gib it up now, you---Yar! [*Gives her coffee-pot to hold, and hobbles off, followed bySolonand*Dido,R.U.E.], Sunny. Ya! Dido. I always said you were the darndest thief that ever escaped a white jail to misrepresent the North to the South. Tullian Tchividjian. Zoe. | Sitemap |. [R.] Then why don't you buy it yourself, Colonel? Pete Hamill, The darkest moments for me weren't necessarily winding up in the hospital or anything like that. Wahnotee. "No," say Mas'r George, "I'd rather sell myself fuss; but dey shan't suffer, nohow,---I see 'em dam fuss.". The Steamer floats on at back, burning. Ratts. Zoe, explain yourself---your language fills me with shapeless fears. I---my mother was---no, no---not her! Mrs. P.She need not keep us waiting breakfast, though. After various slaves are auctioned off, George and the buyers are shocked to see Zoe up on the stand. All Rights Reserved. Five hundred dollars!---[*To*Thibodeaux.] She has had the education of a lady. Is not Dora worth any man's---. Do you know what that is? Jackson. I hope I'm not intruding. Ivan Glasenberg, Very few things hurt my young ego more than an Asian female openly shaming me for my Asian-ness. 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. I don't think you capable of anything else than---. Pete. [Sits,R.], Dora. The play was adapted by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins as An Octoroon in 2014. My home, my home! here's the other one; she's a little too thoroughbred---too much of the greyhound; but the heart's there, I believe. It is an adaptation of Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon , which premiered in 1859. [Calling at door.] I must operate and take my own likeness too---how debbel I do dat? Jackson. Pete. Scud. Pete. Grace. [Solon goes down and stands behind Ratts.] Well, is he not thus afflicted now? [Reads.] [Seizing a fly whisk.] I'll lend you all you want. The Steamer moves off---fire kept up---M'Closky*re-enters,*R.,*swimming on.*. There's one name on the list of slaves scratched, I see. All night, as I fled through the cane-brake, I heard footsteps behind me. 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. Good morning, Colonel. whew! 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. Peyton.] Hillo! O, none for me; I never eat. Zoe. M'Closky. [] If she ain't worth her weight in sunshine, you may take one of my fingers off, and choose which you like." (Act I, Scene 1, Page 24) Ya! Here 'tis---now you give one timble-full---dat's nuff. But now I guess it will arrive too late---these darned U. S. mails are to blame. The Octoroon's Sacrifice (1912) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. I ain't no count, sar. A photographic plate. He will love you---he must. Go, Minnie, tell Pete; run! Mrs. P.And you hesitated from motives of delicacy? Zoe, I love you none the less; this knowledge brings no revolt to my heart, and I can overcome the obstacle. Bah! [Aside.] And dar's de 'paratus---O, gosh, if I could take a likeness ob dis child! Pete. Wahnotee. Scud. Point. He's yours, Mr. George Peyton. Sunny. He said so---then I rose up, and stole from the house, and ran down to the bayou; but its cold, black, silent stream terrified me---drowning must be so horrible a death. Pointdexter*mounts the table with his hammer, his Clerk sits at his feet. All hands aboard there---cut the starn ropes---give her headway! 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. Come, then, but if I catch you drinkin', O, laws a mussey, you'll get snakes! When he speaks to one he does it so easy, so gentle; it isn't bar-room style; love lined with drinks, sighs tinged with tobacco---and they say all the women in Paris were in love with him, which I feelIshall be; stop fanning me; what nice boots he wears. It wants an hour yet to daylight---here is Pete's hut---[Knocks.] Zoe, you are pale. I don't care, they were blue this morning, but it don't signify now. ], Pete. No, I hesitated because an attachment I had formed before I had the pleasure of seeing you had not altogether died out. Poor fellow, he has lost all. Paul. Dora. See, I'm calm. M'Closky. [Astonished.] Mr. George, I am afraid, if all we hear is true, you have led a dreadful life in Europe. [Aside to Pete.] Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. And what shall I say? Says he'll go if I'll go with him. [R. C.] That's my son---buy him, Mas'r Ratts; he's sure to sarve you well. You're a man as well as an auctioneer, ain't ye? All there is there would kill one, wouldn't it? Good day, ma'am. he's coming this way, fighting with his Injiun. Hush! George. O! she look as though she war gwine to have a tooth drawed! We've caught this murdering Injiun, and are going to try him. Terrebonne is yours. [Knocks.] "No. Top Boucicault The Octoroon Quotes. Then I shall never leave Terrebonne---the drink, nurse; the drink; that I may never leave my home---my dear, dear home. *] What a good creature she is. 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. M'Closky. George, George, your words take away my breath! Sunny. I'm broke, Solon---I can't stop the Judge. Can't be ober dar an' here too---I ain't twins. [They approach again.]. I wish they could sell me! Pete. Born here---dem darkies? 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. [Rising.] Ha! If she could not accept me, who could? DORA played by a white actress or an actress who can pass as white. Have I slept upon the benefits I received, and never saw, never felt, never knew that I was forgetful and ungrateful? [Looks off.] Mrs. P.Why, George, I never suspected this! Go now, George---leave me---take her with you. The Octoroon is appropriately considered a sensation drama, though it received the label retrospectively. Dora, oblivious to George's lack of affection for her, enlists Zoe's help to win him over. the rat's out. where am I? No, Pete; no, I won't. Be the first to contribute! They are gone!---[*Glancing at*George.] 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. Don't b'lieve it, Mas'r George; dem black tings never was born at all; dey swarmed one mornin' on a sassafras tree in the swamp: I cotched 'em; dey ain't no 'count. Scud. I shall never understand how to wound the feelings of any lady; and, if that is the custom here, I shall never acquire it. [Leads her forward---aside.] Hello! [Putting it on the table,R. C.]. Scud. Back at Terrebonne, Zoe returns but with a sad heart, as she knows that she and George can never be together. 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. Fellow-citizens, you are convened and assembled here under a higher power than the law. Scud. I can go no farther. Point. I'm responsible for the crittur---go on. [Aside.] The house of Mason Brothers, of Liverpool, failed some twenty years ago in my husband's debt. Not a bale. Zoe. Look here, the boy knows and likes me, Judge; let him come my way? 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. The first mortgagee bids forty thousand dollars. [Rising.] Gentlemen, the sale takes place at three. I won't go on; that man's down. It is in the hearts of brave men, who can tell right from wrong, and from whom justice can't be bought. "Sign that," says the overseer; "it's only a formality." [Shouts heard,R.]. *, M'Olosky. George. Dido. Well, he lived in New York by sittin' with his heels up in front of French's Hotel, and inventin'---. [Looking at watch.] Scud. Sunny. my life, my happy life; why has it been so bright? All right, Judge; I thought there was a mistake. 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. Be the first to contribute! Stop, Zoe; come here! Dion Boucicault Quotes - BrainyQuote. Whar's de coffee? George. He loves me---what of that? Dat's de laziest nigger on dis yere property. There is a gulf between us, as wide as your love, as deep as my despair; but, O, tell me, say you will pity me! Come, Paul, are you ready? Paul. Why don't he return to his nation out West? side.---A table and chairs,R.C. Gracediscovered sitting at breakfast-table with Children. [Reads.] Dora. Dido. Fifty against one! 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. Just turn your face a leetle this way---fix your---let's see---look here. that's right. Stand around and let me pass---room thar! ], M'Closky. Good morning, Mrs. Peyton. Hello! Scud. Copyright 2023 Famous Quotes & Sayings. Missey Zoe! I know you'll excuse it. Ratts. "A fine, well-built old family mansion, replete with every comfort.". "Ma'am, your nose drawed it. Dora. What, Mr. Ratts, are you going to invest in swamps? Calm as a tombstone, and with about as much life. can you smile at this moment? Providence has chosen your executioner. Now, ma'am, I'd like a little business, if agreeable. No! Guess they nebber was born---dem tings! Scud. *] Now, give it to me. O! Gentlemen, I believe none of us have two feelings about the conduct of that man; but he has the law on his side---we may regret, but we must respect it. Zoe. Point. Scud. Dora. I ain't ashamed of it---I do love the gal; but I ain't jealous of you, because I believe the only sincere feeling about you is your love for Zoe, and it does your heart good to have her image thar; but I believe you put it thar to spile. This is your own house; we are under your uncle's roof; recollect yourself. no violence---the critter don't know what we mean. The injiun! [Wrenches it from him.] He loves Zoe, and has found out that she loves him. Now fix yourself. George. Boucicault The Octoroon Quotes & Sayings. [Dies.---George*lowers her head gently.---Kneels.---Others form picture. "When she goes along, she just leaves a streak of love behind her. If you would pardon the abruptness of the question, I would ask you, Do you think the sincere devotion of my life to make yours happy would succeed? 3, Pete, a house servant. 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. Zoe, tell Pete to give my mare a feed, will ye? Pete, you old turkey-buzzard, saddle my mare. I'd cut my throat---or yours---yours I'd prefer. Now, what have you done to show them the distinction? Scud. Last night I overheard you weeping in your room, and you said, "I'd rather see her dead than so! D'ye call running away from a fellow catching him? Ratts. Ah! how can you say so? What's here---judgments? But now that vagrant love is---eh? 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. Go on, Colonel. 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. We must excuse Scudder, friends. You're bidding to separate them, Judge. [R.U.E.] I was raised on dis yar plantation---neber see no door in it---always open, sar, for stranger to walk in. Say, Mas'r Scudder, take me in dat telescope? George, you may without a blush confess your love for the Octoroon! Pete. Scudder. Do I? Scud. Mr. Scudder, I've listened to a great many of your insinuations, and now I'd like to come to an understanding what they mean. You can protect me from that man---do let me die without pain. Gain full access to show guides, character breakdowns, auditions, monologues and more! Jackson. Whar's Paul, Wahnotee? Only 10 percent engaged in combat; the American elephant, pursuing the Vietnamese grasshopper, was extraordinarily heavy with logistical support. Mr. George is in love with Zoe. Stan' back, I say I I'll nip the first that lays a finger on Him. When she goes along, she just leaves a streak of love behind her. Scud. I am free! O, Zoe, my child! Boucicaults The Octoroon famous quotes & sayings: Ivan Glasenberg: We work. [falls on her knees, with her face in her hands] no---no master, but one. Zoe. you bomn'ble fry---git out---a gen'leman can't pass for you. Minnie (a Quadroon Slave) Miss Walters. George. Pete. "But, sir, it ain't agreeable." Then I will go to a parlor house and have them top up a bathtub with French champagne and I will strip and dive into it with a bare-assed blonde and a redhead and an octoroon and the four of us will get completely presoginated and laugh and let long bubbly farts at hell and baptize each other in the name of the Trick, the Prick, and the Piper-Heidsick. look at these fingers; do you see the nails are of a bluish tinge? Fifteen thousand. It carried that easy on mortgage. You'll take care, I guess, it don't go too cheap. what, dem?---get away! Were they all born on this estate? Paul! Scud. Dora. What, sar! I'd be darned glad if somebody would tear my past life away from me. If you want a quarrel---. Pete. Point. Sunny. Mrs. P.The child was a favorite of the judge, who encouraged his gambols. Dora. Zoe, if all I possess would buy your freedom, I would gladly give it. Scud. Ratts. George, leave me! Dido. With Dora's wealth, he explains, Terrebonne will not be sold and the slaves will not have to be separated. M'Closky. Here you are, in the very attitude of your crime! Dear George, you now see what a miserable thing I am. Zoe (an Octoroon Girl, free, the Natural Child of the late Judge by a Quadroon Slave) Mrs. J. H. Allen. shall we have one law for the red-skin and another for the white?
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