See also Trivia | Goofs | Crazy Credits | Alternate Versions | Connections | Soundtracks Did You Know? It ain't no use now; you got to gib it up! New York, NY, Ages 12-17: Camp Broadway Ensemble @ Carnegie Hall If you haven't spoiled her, I fear I have. George. the bags are mine---now for it!---[Opens mail-bags.] Mr. Scudder, good morning. Captain, you've loaded up here until the boat is sunk so deep in the mud she won't float. Mas'r Ratts, you hard him sing about de place where de good niggers go, de last time. and will despise me, spurn me, loathe me, when he learns who, what, he has so loved.---[Aloud.] Ratts. What's de charge, Mas'r Scudder? It won't do! Enjoy reading and share 1 famous quotes about The Octoroon with everyone. [Music.]. 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. You begged me to call this morning. that's right. Mrs. P.Poor child! Zoe! Will she gladly see you wedded to the child of her husband's slave? If Omenee remain, Wahnotee will die in Terrebonne. [*Takes Indian's tomahawk and steals to*Paul. Scud. 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? George, leave me! George. Point. whew! Do not weep, George. Well, that has come out clear, ain't it? I'll clear him off there---he'll never know what stunned him. It carried that easy on mortgage. George. Back at Terrebonne, Zoe returns but with a sad heart, as she knows that she and George can never be together. 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. [M'Closky*strikes him on the head---he falls dead.*]. [Sighing.] Is your heart free? Git away dere! 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. M'Closky. EnterPaul,R.U.E.,withIndian,who goes up. The child---'tis he! give me the rest that no master but One can disturb---the sleep from which I shall awake free! George. The more bidders, the better for you. [Calls off.] Boucicault's manuscript actually reads "Indian, French and 'Merican." Whar's breakfass? George reluctantly agrees. this old Liverpool debt---that may cross me---if it only arrive too late---if it don't come by this mail---Hold on! She didn't mind how kind old judge was to her; and Solon, too, he'll holler, and break de ole lady's heart. I've got four plates ready, in case we miss the first shot. Pete. Zoe. Don't do nuffin. Dora. Stop! Scud. I tell ye, 't'ain't so---we can't do it---we've got to be sold---, Pete. No; but you, aunty, you are wise---you know every plant, don't you, and what it is good for? Now, den, if Grace dere wid her chil'n were all sold, she'll begin screechin' like a cat. [R.U.E.] I was raised on dis yar plantation---neber see no door in it---always open, sar, for stranger to walk in. Zoe, explain yourself---your language fills me with shapeless fears. There's no chance of it. Dat you drink is fust rate for red fever. Closky tue Paul---kill de child with your tomahawk dar; 'twasn't you, no---ole Pete allus say so. Didn't I? Dam dat Injiun! Fifteen thousand. Irish - Dramatist December 26, 1822 - September 18, 1890. Scud. Point. come home---there are strangers in the house. Sunny. And dar's de 'paratus---O, gosh, if I could take a likeness ob dis child! McClosky has proved that Judge Peyton did not succeed in legally freeing her, as he had meant to do. Point. Coute Wahnotee in omenee dit go Wahnotee, poina la fa, comb a pine tree, la revieut sala, la fa. Ask him, I want to know; don't say I told you to inquire, but find out. No, Pete; no, I won't. I hope we don't intrude on the family. Just one month ago I quitted Paris. Scad. Ain't that a cure for old age; it kinder lifts the heart up, don't it? Dora. That Indian is a nuisance. [*Exit*Mrs. Peyton*and*George,L.U.E.] A slave! Darn his copper carcass, I've got a set of Irish deck-hands aboard that just loved that child; and after I tell them this, let them get a sight of the red-skin, I believe they would eat him, tomahawk and all. Paul. George. They do not notice Zoe.---[Aloud.] Scud. Point. 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. [Zoe sings without,L.]. 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. [Sits. Scud. We are catching fire forward; quick, set free from the shore. What's this? Down with him! Zoe. Deep songs don't come from the surface; they come from the deep down. M'Closky. Zoe is your child by a quadroon slave, and you didn't free her; blood! [*Takes fan from*Minnie.] [Wahnotee*rises and looks atM'Closky---he is in his war paint and fully armed.*]. Ten miles we've had to walk, because some blamed varmin onhitched our dug-out. 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. George. M'Closky. In cash? Jacob M'Closky, you shan't have that girl. she look as though she war gwine to have a tooth drawed! [] 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) dem darkies! yonder goes the Indian! New York, NY, Linda Ray M'Closky. I will; for it is agin my natur' to b'lieve him guilty; and if he be, this ain't the place, nor you the authority to try him. "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---. All there is there would kill one, wouldn't it? Scud. Here 'tis---now you give one timble-full---dat's nuff. Zoe. 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. what are you blowing about like a steamboat with one wheel for? [All salute.]. Ain't you took them bags to the house yet? Paying the iron price. Zoe. My love! Scud. And I remained here to induce you to offer that heart to Dora! Pete. My father gives me freedom---at least he thought so. Wahnote*swims on---finds trail---follows him. It wants an hour yet to daylight---here is Pete's hut---[Knocks.] You can protect me from that man---do let me die without pain. He sleeps---no; I see a light. I will! Scud. 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. What court of law would receive such evidence? M'Closky. *] Whenever I gets into company like yours, I always start with the advantage on my side. D'ye hear it---nearer---nearer---ah! And we all Everybody---that is, I heard so. you stan' dar, I see you Ta demine usti. That's his programme---here's a pocket-book. M'Closky. [*Aside to*Mrs. Here's the Picayune [producing paper] with the advertisement. A large table is in theC.,at back. Lafouche. Solon. Well---I didn't mean to kill him, did I? [Sits down.] Mrs. P.Wahnotee, will you go back to your people? Scud. Mr. Lafouche, why, how do you do, sir? I couldn't bear to see him put to work. you remind me so much of your uncle, the judge. O, why did he speak to me at all then? What, you won't, won't ye? You can bet I'm going to make this . [Cry of "fire" heard---Engine bells heard---steam whistle noise.]. me! He confesses it; the Indian got drunk, quarreled with him, and killed him. George. At New Orleans, they said, "She's pretty, very pretty, but no brains." "Ma'am, your nose drawed it. [Darts between them.] Will ye? George. M'Closky. Mrs. P. No; not you---George. Stan' back, I say I I'll nip the first that lays a finger on Him. The first mortgagee bids forty thousand dollars. Well, he has the oddest way of making love. One morning dey swarmed on a sassafras tree in de swamp, and I cotched 'em all in a sieve.---dat's how dey come on top of dis yearth---git out, you,---ya, ya! I'll trouble you for that piece of baccy, Judge---thank you---so, gentlemen, as life is short, we'll start right off. I see my little Nimrod yonder, with his Indian companion. Yes; you was the first to hail Judge Lynch. this is worth taking to---in this desk the judge used to keep one paper I want---this should be it. This blow has staggered me some. Zoe. Boucicault The Octoroon Quotes & Sayings. Coventry Patmore, if a man has no stability when you meet him, you may want to stay clear of him. Now it's cooking, laws mussey, I feel it all inside, as if it was at a lottery. I tell ye dar's somebody in dar. George. Now's your time.---[Aloud.] Zoe. Why, Dora, what's the matter? George says he can "overcome the obstacle" (43), but Zoe protests that they cannot be together. Well, sir, what does this Scudder do but introduces his inventions and improvements on this estate. Scud. I don't think you capable of anything else than---. Race or not, it's a story about . Scud. Ratts. Minnie, fan me, it is so nice---and his clothes are French, ain't they? Pete. Scud. [Scudder*takes out watch.*]. Paul. Scud. You don't come here to take life easy. [*With-draws slide, turns and sees*Paul.] Author: Dahlia Lithwick. I fetch as much as any odder cook in Louisiana. You heard him say it was hopeless. I only come back to find Wahnotee; whar is dat ign'ant Ingiun? 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. | About Us Mrs. P.So, Pete, you are spoiling those children as usual! What, Mr. Ratts, are you going to invest in swamps? [Advances.] George. A photographic plate. I listen dar jess now---dar was ole lady cryin'---Mas'r George---ah! there it comes---it comes---don't you hear a footstep on the dry leaves? Scud. Cut, cut the rope---I choke---choke!---Ah! McClosky desires Zoe for himself, and when she rejects his proposition, he plots to have her sold with the rest of the slaves, for he knows that she is an octoroon and is legally part of the Terrebonne property. 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? [Speaking in his ear-trumpet.] Thank'ye. Mr. Scudder, take us with you---Mr. Peyton is so slow, there's no getting him, on. O, Mas'r Scudder, he didn't cry zackly; both ob his eyes and cheek look like de bad Bayou in low season---so dry dat I cry for him. Point. 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. 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. Jacob M'Closky, 'twas you murdered that boy! [Pete holds lantern up.] you're looking well. M'Closky. Now, ma'am, I'd like a little business, if agreeable. Why you out in de swamp dis time ob night---you catch de fever sure---you is all wet. Forgive him, Dora; for he knew no better until I told him. M'Closky. Zoe. Scud. You don't expect to recover any of this old debt, do you? [Raises hand to back of his neck.] I thought I heard the sound of a paddle in the water. He's yours, Captain Ratts, Magnolia steamer. M'Closky,Why not? that he isn't to go on fooling in his slow---. Just as McClosky points out the blood on Wahnotee's tomahawk, the oldest slave, Pete, comes to give them the photographic plate which has captured McClosky's deed. Mrs. P.Ah! Were they all born on this estate? No, no! Uh---uh, let's have a peep. 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. Dora. Here then, I'll put back these Peytons in Terrebonne, and they shall know you done it; yes, they'll have you to thank for saving them from ruin. 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. That part of it all is performance for the media. Yah! I daren't move fear to spile myself. [*ExitScudderand*Mrs. Peyton,R.U.E. George. there again!---no; it was only the wind over the canes. Share with your friends. He's yours, Mr. George Peyton. M'Closky. O, forgive him and me! Yes, den a glass ob fire-water; now den. Hey! [Weeping.] Scud. Come, Mrs. Peyton, take my arm. O! Deborah Blake, I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. 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. Scud. George. What, sar? Scud. To Jacob M'Closky, the Octoroon girl, Zoe, twenty-five thousand dollars. [Going.]. George. The Injiun means that he buried him there! Calm as a tombstone, and with about as much life. [*To*Zoe.] 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. Wal, as it consarns you, perhaps you better had. What am goin' to cum ob us! Darn that girl; she makes me quiver when I think of her; she's took me for all I'm worth. It's no use you putting on airs; I ain't gwine to sit up wid you all night and you drunk. 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. 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! Only 10 percent engaged in combat; the American elephant, pursuing the Vietnamese grasshopper, was extraordinarily heavy with logistical support. [Slowly lowering his whip,] Darn you, red skin, I'll pay you off some day, both of ye. [Raising his voice.] "No," say Mas'r George, "I'd rather sell myself fuss; but dey shan't suffer, nohow,---I see 'em dam fuss.". here's Mas'r Sunnyside, and Missey Dora, jist drov up. *], [Light fires.---Draw flats and discoverPaul'sgrave.---M'Closky*dead on top of it.---Wahnoteestanding triumphantly over him.*]. Dora. Hush! I must see you no more. All. you seen dem big tears in his eyes. Pete. He don't understand; he speaks a mash-up of Indian and Mexican. Consarn those Liverpool English fellers, why couldn't they send something by the last mail? Ratts. Do I? why don't you do it? [Georgepours contents of phial in glass. One hundred and forty-nine bales. Ah! In comparison, a quadroon would have one quarter African ancestry and a mulatto for the most part has historically implied half African ancestry. I'll gib it you! M'Closky. | Contact Us Ha! 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. "Whar's Paul?" I can't introduce any darned improvement there. The sun is rising. Are they? Hi! M'Closky. Have I slept upon the benefits I received, and never saw, never felt, never knew that I was forgetful and ungrateful? Lafouche. What's he doing; is he asleep? [Draws pistol---M'Closky*rushes on and falls atScudder'sfeet.*]. 49, Paul, a quadroon boy, aged thirteen. if I had you one by one, alone in the swamp, I'd rip ye all. No, no! you bomn'ble fry---git out---a gen'leman can't pass for you. Sharon Gannon. [Re-entering.] 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. Ay, ay! [To the men.] Hillo! Pete. 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. Jacob McClosky, the man who ruined Judge Peyton, has come to inform George and his aunt (who was bequeathed a life interest in the estate) that their land will be sold and their slaves auctioned off separately. 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