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[Minnie runs off.] Five hundred bid---it's a good price. Mrs. Peyton, George Peyton, Terrebonne is yours. O, none for me; I never eat. 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. 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. 'Tis true! [Aside.] ExitScudderandPete,R.1. I've been to the negro quarters. Then, as I knelt there, weeping for courage, a snake rattled beside me. "No. Those little flowers can live, but I cannot. No, dear. he does not know, he does not know! I fled; it followed. Pete. 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. Ratts. [*Gives her coffee-pot to hold, and hobbles off, followed bySolonand*Dido,R.U.E.], Sunny. The judge drew money like Bourbon whiskey from a barrel, and never turned off the tap. Burn, burn! Only three of his plays were to have an American setting, The Octoroon is one of these. you stan' dar, I see you Ta demine usti. Well when I say go, den lift dis rag like dis, see! The world, Zoe, the free struggle of minds and hands, if before me; the education bestowed on me by my dear uncle is a noble heritage which no sheriff can seize; with that I can build up a fortune, spread a roof over the heads I love, and place before them the food I have earned; I will work---. That's enough. [Re-enters with phial.] [On sofa,C.] George---where---where---, Zoe. Happy to read and share the best inspirational Boucicault The Octoroon quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes. *EnterPaul,wrestling with*Wahnotee,R.3. Scud. air you true? For the first time, twenty-five thousand---last time! M'Closky. What? [Aside,C.] Insolent as usual.---[Aloud.] Pete. I suppose I shall go before long, and I wished to visit all the places, once again, to see the poor people. Deborah Blake, I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. Hold on now! Eight hundred agin, then---I'll go it. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. Well, he lived in New York by sittin' with his heels up in front of French's Hotel, and inventin'---. Go, Minnie, tell Pete; run! I can go no farther. Scudder. Point. Grace. the apparatus can't lie. [Reads.] Zoe. Scud. You be darned! Ratts. Paul. You don't see Zoe, Mr. Sunnyside. What say ye, gentlemen? Is your heart free? It wants an hour yet to daylight---here is Pete's hut---[Knocks.] 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. Go now, George---leave me---take her with you. 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? [Aside.] Ratts. Now, I feel bad about my share in the business. [Shakes hands withGeorge.] M'Closky. Zoe. Enjoy reading and share 14 famous quotes about Boucicaults The Octoroon with everyone. then I shall be sold!---sold! what, dem?---get away! Zoe. Where did she live and what sort of life did she lead? 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. Evidence! O, my father! Fifty against one! [Wahnotee*sits*L.,rolled in blanket.]. Scud. You see how easily I have become reconciled to my fate---so it will be with you. 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. Scud. Go on, Pete, you've waked up the Christian here, and the old hoss responds. M'Closky. Stop, Zoe; come here! [*Aside to*Mrs. Then, if they go, they'll take Zoe---she'll follow them. Dora. [Draws knife.] Thank you, Mas'r Ratts: I die for you, sar; hold up for me, sar. Ratts. [Reads.] Jackson. Their presence keeps alive the reproach against me that I ruined them; yet, if this money should come. Scud. Silence in the court; stand back, let the gentlemen of the jury retire, consult, and return their verdict. See also Stealing a lantern, he sets fire to the steamship that had the slaves on board. Mrs. P.Wahnotee, will you go back to your people? Now it's cooking, laws mussey, I feel it all inside, as if it was at a lottery. I will! I must keep you, Captain, to the eleven hundred. Lafouche. Adam had a job, a place to live, and food that he could provide for his woman. How can she then ask her father to free me? You seem already familiar with the names of every spot on the estate. Dam dat Injiun! laws a massey! Pete. Laws, mussey! I thank Heaven you have not lived to see this day. The men leave to fetch the authorities, but McClosky escapes. That part of it all is performance for the media. Zoe. The sheriff from New Orleans has taken possession---Terrebonne is in the hands of the law. O, how I lapped up her words, like a thirsty bloodhound! I have remarked that she is treated by the neighbors with a kind of familiar condescension that annoyed me. O! Salem Scudder, a kind Yankee, was Judge Peyton's business partner; though he wishes he could save Terrebonne, he has no money. Scud. M'Closky. The Octoroon is appropriately considered a sensation drama, though it received the label retrospectively. Dora. 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. ya! I'll have her, if it costs me my life! Let me proceed by illustration. 'Tain't no faint---she's a dying, sa; she got pison from old Dido here, this mornin'. I do, but I can't do it. Why you speak so wild? "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---. Guess it kill a dozen---nebber try. 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. Now's your time.---[Aloud.] Paul. [Sits,R.] Look thar! Here 'tis---now you give one timble-full---dat's nuff. George. Sharon Gannon. Mrs. P.Zoe, dear, I'm glad to see you more calm this morning. Where is Mr. Scudder? there it comes---it comes---don't you hear a footstep on the dry leaves? Paul. Here are evidences of the crime; this rum-bottle half emptied---this photographic apparatus smashed---and there are marks of blood and footsteps around the shed. Scud. What in thunder should I do with you and those devils on board my boat? Dora. I see it in your face. war's de crowd gone? ", Zoe. To "Mrs. Peyton, Terrebonne, Louisiana, United States." New York, NY, Linda Ray The Octoroon: The Story of the Turpentine Forest (1909) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. McClosky, however, outbids her for Zoe; George is restrained from attacking him by his friends. Mrs. P.I cannot find the entry in my husband's accounts; but you, Mr. M'Closky, can doubtless detect it. He plans to buy her and make her his mistress. The Octoroon (1913) - Quotes - IMDb Menu Edit The Octoroon (1913) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. [During the reading of letter he remains nearly motionless under the focus of the camera.] 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." Gain full access to show guides, character breakdowns, auditions, monologues and more! ], M'Closky. You'll take care, I guess, it don't go too cheap. Scud. Forgive him, Dora; for he knew no better until I told him. She said, "It's free with purchase." And you killed him? All Rights Reserved. No, you goose! No, sir; you have omitted the Octoroon girl, Zoe. Enjoy reading and share 1 famous quotes about The Octoroonwith everyone. George. I want you to buy Terrebonne. Why, judge, wasn't you lawyer enough to know that while a judgment stood against you it was a lien on your slaves? I believe Mr. M'Closky has a bill of sale on them. M'Closky. [Dies.---George*lowers her head gently.---Kneels.---Others form picture. Mr. M'Closky has bid twenty-five thousand dollars for the Octoroon. look sar! Yes, Mas'r George, dey was born here; and old Pete is fonder on 'em dan he is of his fiddle on a Sunday. [Darts between them.] Are you ready? Mrs. P.Sellyourself, George! Come here quite; now quite. So! | Contact Us Peyton.]. M'Closky. No; the hitching line was cut with a knife. Be the first to contribute! George. Ratts. Pete. O, my husband! I shall do so if you weep. . Could you see the roots of my hair you would see the same dark, fatal mark. By fair means I don't think you can get her, and don't you try foul with her, 'cause if you do, Jacob, civilization be darned. Cora, educated in Britain, returns to her fathers plantation in Louisiana to explore the truth about her mother's. Hello! Grace. Ain't you took them bags to the house yet? Dora. Important Quotes. Are they? yonder goes the Indian! M'Closky. Ugh! Scud. "Ma'am," says I, "the apparatus can't mistake." No. This blow has staggered me some. Then I will go to the Acme or Keating's or the Big Gold Bar and sit down and draw my cards and fill an inside straight and win myself a thousand dollars. there again!---no; it was only the wind over the canes. New York, NY, Ages 12-17: Camp Broadway Ensemble @ Carnegie Hall Point. One thousand bid. | Privacy Policy I always said you were the darndest thief that ever escaped a white jail to misrepresent the North to the South. here's the other one; she's a little too thoroughbred---too much of the greyhound; but the heart's there, I believe. What, on Terrebonne! I don't think you capable of anything else than---. M'Closky. Sunny. I can't introduce any darned improvement there. this letter the old lady expects---that's it; let me only head off that letter, and Terrebonne will be sold before they can recover it. Yours, &c, James Brown." Scud. Let her pass! Where is he? here are marks of blood---look thar, red-skin, what's that? Scud. Listen to me. George. He's yours, Captain Ratts, Magnolia steamer. What was her past? 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? I'll murder this yer crowd, [*He chases*Childrenabout; they leap over railing at back. No, it ain't; because, just then, what does the judge do, but hire another overseer---a Yankee---a Yankee named Salem Scudder. Ratts. 1, Solon, a guess boy, and good waiter.". [They rush onM'Closky,and disarm him.] Pete. | Sitemap |. If she could not accept me, who could? Point. Dora Sunnyside (only Daughter and Heiress to Sunnyside, a Southern Belle) Mrs. Stoddart. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. Author: Dahlia Lithwick. Scene.---The Wharf, The Steamer "Magnolia" alongside,L.;a bluff rock,R.U.E. Ratts*discovered, superintending the loading of ship. 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! Was dat?---a cry out dar in de swamp---dar agin! [Calls off.] He calls me Omenee, the Pigeon, and Miss Zoe is Ninemoosha, the Sweetheart. George and Zoe reveal their love for each other, but Zoe rejects George's marriage proposal. That's just what you must do, and do it at once, or it will be too late. Zoe. Miss Sunnyside, permit me a word; a feeling of delicacy has suspended upon my lips an avowal, which---. Scud. See here, you imps; if I catch you, and your red skin yonder, gunning in my swamps, I'll give you rats, mind; them vagabonds, when the game's about, shoot my pigs. I'll lend you all you want. here's Mas'r Sunnyside, and Missey Dora, jist drov up. 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. Mr. George, I am afraid, if all we hear is true, you have led a dreadful life in Europe. the rat's out. Ask the color in your face; d'ye think I can't read you, like a book? How would you like to rule the house of the richest planter on Atchafalaya---eh? I'd cut my throat---or yours---yours I'd prefer. Mrs. Claiborne Miss Clinton. [Raises hammer.] Just as soon as we put this cotton on board. I the sharer of your sorrows---your wife. Lafouche. Scud. Ain't that a cure for old age; it kinder lifts the heart up, don't it? Stop, here's dem dishes---plates---dat's what he call 'em, all fix: I see Mas'r Scudder do it often---tink I can take likeness---stay dere, Wahnotee. 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. She is one-eighth black, the daughter of a "quadroon" slave woman, and is very. I didn't know whether they are completely honest. There's no chance of it. Down with him! "I'm afraid to die; yet I am more afraid to live," Zoe says, asking Dido to "protect me from that mando let me die without pain" (70). You got dat bottle of rum hid under your blanket---gib it up now, you---Yar! Dear Dora, try to understand it with your heart. I---my mother was---no, no---not her! Pete. Now, what have you done to show them the distinction? Because, Miss Sunnyside, I have not learned to lie. The buyers gather to take away the slaves they have purchased on a steamship. [Raising his voice.] But don't mount to nuffin---kin work cannel. The Octoroon Important Quotes 1. He looked in to see what stopped it, and pulled out a big mortgage. E.---Wahnoteefaces him.---Fight---buss. George. After various slaves are auctioned off, George and the buyers are shocked to see Zoe up on the stand. Scud. Alas! [Tumbles upon the table.]. Take that, and defend yourself. Dora. Is that you, Mr. Overseer? [Looking at watch.] [Goes up.]. Sunny. What's this, eh? Sign that receipt, captain, and save me going up to the clerk. 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. No, ma'am; here's the plan of it. Ratts. That boy and the Indian have gone down to the landing for the post-bags; they'll idle on the way as usual; my mare will take me across the swamp, and before they can reach the shed, I'll have purified them bags---ne'er a letter shall show this mail. Why, I was dreaming---curse it! Scud. I shrunk from it and fled. Dora. Dido. I see we are just in time for breakfast. Providence has chosen your executioner. M'Closky. With Dora's wealth, he explains, Terrebonne will not be sold and the slaves will not have to be separated. He confesses it; the Indian got drunk, quarreled with him, and killed him. Two hundred and forty-nine times! [Brings hammer down.] Yes, ma'am, I hold a mortgage over Terrebonne; mine's a ninth, and pretty near covers all the property, except the slaves. Den say de missus, "'Tain't for de land I keer, but for dem poor niggars---dey'll be sold---dat wot stagger me." ha---git out! Ha, ha! George, you know not what you say. D'ye call running away from a fellow catching him? The word octoroon signifies a person of one-eighth African ancestry. I hope it will turn out better than most of my notions. George. M'Closky. One hundred and forty-nine bales. Just because my grandfather wasn't some broken-down Virginia transplant, or a stingy old Creole, I ain't fit to sit down with the same meat with them. See, I'm calm. 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. Poor little Paul---poor little nigger! McClosky intercepts a young slave boy, Paul, who is bringing a mailbag to the house which contains a letter from one of Judge Peyton's old debtors. With them around us, if we have not wealth, we shall at least have the home that they alone can make---. Go outside, there; listen to what you hear, then go down to the quarters and tell the boys, for I can't do it. Dora. George. The tragic ending was used for American audiences, to avoid portraying a mixed marriage.[4]. She nebber was 'worth much 'a dat nigger. 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. Boucicault The Octoroon Quotes & Sayings. [Examines the ground.] 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. Well, you wrong me. he's coming this way, fighting with his Injiun. Let him answer for the boy, then. Pete. Come, Mr. Thibodeaux, a man has a chance once in his life---here's yours. 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. Good morning, Mrs. Peyton. Sunny. When she goes along, she just leaves a streak of love behind her. he must not see me. And dar's de 'paratus---O, gosh, if I could take a likeness ob dis child! ], Paul. Would you now? Zoe. Lafouche. [Inside room.] Pete. ], M'Closky. Ratts. clar out! What was her name? Wahnotee. O, Zoe! [Wakes.] Scud. Now fix yourself. [] 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) Sunny. A puppy, if he brings any of his European airs here we'll fix him.---[Aloud.] [A pause.] | About Us They do not notice Zoe.---[Aloud.] Yes, for you, for me, for dem little ones, dem folks cried. M'Closky. What court of law would receive such evidence? What's de charge, Mas'r Scudder? That is the ineffaceable curse of Cain. Top, sar! See also Mrs. P.She need not keep us waiting breakfast, though. Pete. Scud. [falls on her knees, with her face in her hands] no---no master, but one. if you cannot be mine, O, let me not blush when I think of you. M'Closky. [*Throws bowie-knife to*M'Closky.] Ratts. Yes; No. I say, I'd like to say summit soft to the old woman; perhaps it wouldn't go well, would it? Fifteen thousand. [Aside.] Didn't I? "Madam, we are instructed by the firm of Mason and Co., to inform you that a dividend of forty per cent, is payable on the 1st proximo, this amount in consideration of position, they send herewith, and you will find enclosed by draft to your order, on the Bank of Louisiana, which please acknowledge---the balance will be paid in full, with interest, in three, six, and nine months---your drafts on Mason Brothers at those dates will be accepted by La Palisse and Compagnie, N. O., so that you may command immediate use of the whole amount at once, if required. O! 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. M'Closky. give me the rest that no master but One can disturb---the sleep from which I shall awake free! Extremely popular, the play was kept running continuously for years by seven road companies. Zoe, you are suffering---your lips are white---your cheeks are flushed. M'Closky. Dar, do ye hear dat, ye mis'able darkies, dem gals is worth a boat load of kinder men dem is. [*Points down, and shows by pantomime how he buried*Paul.]. Scud. 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. The child---'tis he! O, why did he speak to me at all then? Whar's breakfass? George. He will love you---he must. Were they all born on this estate? Your own Zoe, that loves you, aunty, so much, so much.---[Gets phial.] [Aside.] Excuse me ladies. Scud. Sunny. Weenee Paul. Top The Octoroon Quotes I will be thirty years old again in thirty seconds. George reluctantly agrees. Now, my culled brethren, gird up your lines, and listen---hold on yer bref---it's a comin. O, here, do you know what annuity the old judge left you is worth to-day? [Re-entering.] Squire Sunnyside is going to sell this at fifty thousand advance to-morrow.---[Looks round.] Ain't he! I lost them in the cedar swamp---again they haunted my path down the bayou, moving as I moved, resting when I rested---hush! Thank'ye. Not lawful---no---but I am going to where there is no law---where there is only justice. Author: Mike Watt. Here, stay! You can bet I'm going to make this . what are you doing there, you young varmint! New York, NY, Accessibility Statement Terms Privacy |StageAgent 2020. O, laws-a-mussey, see dis; here's a pictur' I found stickin' in that yar telescope machine, sar! I see my little Nimrod yonder, with his Indian companion. Scud. Pete. He is sitting on on my prize! My dear mother---Mr. Scudder---you teach me what I ought to do; if Miss Sunnyside will accept me as I am, Terrebonne shall be saved; I will sell myself, but the slaves shall be protected. I've got four plates ready, in case we miss the first shot. [Exit slowly, as if concealing himself,R.U.E. George. George. I bid seven thousand, which is the last dollar this family possesses. Zoe, you are young; your mirror must have told you that you are beautiful. George. How are we sure the boy is dead at all? What, you won't, won't ye? Yah! When I am dead she will not be jealous of your love for me, no laws will stand between us. What a find! 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. Come, Mrs. Peyton, take my arm. Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. The Octoroon Quotes & Sayings Happy to read and share the best inspirational The Octoroon quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes. Zoe. If it don't stain de cup, your wicked ole life's in danger, sure! I want Pete here a minute. [Outside,R.] Whar's Missus---whar's Mas'r George? She refuses, but Zoe steals the bottle from her anyway and runs off. Haven't you worked like a horse? Paul. The murder is captured on Scudder's photographic apparatus. DORA played by a white actress or an actress who can pass as white. George. Sunnyside, Pointdexter, Jackson, Peyton; here it is---the Liverpool post-mark, sure enough!---[Opens letter---reads.] George. Paul. 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---. You begged me to call this morning. Go on, Colonel. You can protect me from that man---do let me die without pain. Mr. Scudder, take us with you---Mr. Peyton is so slow, there's no getting him, on. 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.] Do not weep, George. No; but I loved you so, I could not bear my fate; and then I stood your heart and hers. Closky tue Paul---kill de child with your tomahawk dar; 'twasn't you, no---ole Pete allus say so. Zoe. I don't know; she may as well hear the hull of it. You don't come here to take life easy. *EnterPete, Dido, Solon, Minnie,and*Grace. No, no! "When she goes along, she just leaves a streak of love behind her. Ah, George, our race has at least one virtue---it knows how to suffer! Well, then, what has my all-cowardly heart got to skeer me so for? I must be going---it is late. What's dat? Can you take any more? Mrs. P.Yes; the firm has recovered itself, and I received a notice two months ago that some settlement might be anticipated. Ratts. Well---I didn't mean to kill him, did I? Pete. Point. [Georgepours contents of phial in glass. So it is. Darn it, when I see a woman in trouble, I feel like selling the skin off my back. I dare say you left at least a dozen beloved women there, at the same time. my dear, dear father! Do you mean that I'm a pig? I'd be darned glad if somebody would tear my past life away from me. Hold on, now! Scud. Burn! Hold on a bit. Zoe. Zoe. ], Scud. Zoe. Scud. Mr. Lafouche, why, how do you do, sir? What, Mr. Ratts, are you going to invest in swamps? Make bacon of me, you young whelp. Since this letter would allow Mrs. Peyton to avoid selling Terrebonne, McClosky kills Paul and takes the letter. He said so. Terrebonne is yours. Scud. No, ma'am, I worked like an ass---an honest one, and that's all. Sunny. Aunt, I will take my rifle down to the Atchafalaya. I think we may begin business. To Jacob M'Closky, the Octoroon girl, Zoe, twenty-five thousand dollars. Dat's me---yer, I'm comin'---stand around dar. O, Miss Zoe, why you ask ole Dido for dis pizen? Don't say that, ma'am; don't say that to a man that loves another gal. 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.". Why, with principal and interest this debt has been more than doubled in twenty years. [Speaking in his ear-trumpet.] The New York Times noted 'its striking merits as a sensational drama' Scud. Pete. Dora. [*Exit*Dora,L.U.E.] What on earth does that child mean or want? EnterSolon*andDidowith coffee-pot, dishes, &c.,*R.U.E. Dido. Pointdexter*mounts the table with his hammer, his Clerk sits at his feet. She loves him! Liverpool post mark. M'Closky. Scad. Synopsis. George. Dora, you are right. Zoe. 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. 'Tain't you he has injured, 'tis the white man, whose laws he has offended. 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. Where am I to get it? Dora. *Re-enter*Lafouche,R.,with smashed apparatus. George. Share with your friends. Dora. I know you'll excuse it. You're a man as well as an auctioneer, ain't ye? Traduced! Yah! George. Dido. Sunny. [Aside to Sunnyside.] Go with Dora to Sunnyside. See also Trivia | Goofs | Crazy Credits | Alternate Versions | Connections | Soundtracks Dora. [Sits down.] Ah. Zoe. If we can't behave like Christians, let's try and act like gentlemen. All night, as I fled through the cane-brake, I heard footsteps behind me. I only come back to find Wahnotee; whar is dat ign'ant Ingiun? It's near that now, and there's still the sugar-houses to be inspected. what a bright, gay creature she is! "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." George, dear George, do you love me? Impossible; you have seen no one; whom can you mean? 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! Mrs. P.Why didn't you mention this before? Mrs. P.Poor child! Dis way, gen'l'men; now Solon---Grace---dey's hot and tirsty---sangaree, brandy, rum. Now, ma'am, I'd like a little business, if agreeable. Unlock this Study Guide! I will be thirty years old again in thirty seconds. Between us we've ruined these Peytons; you fired the judge, and I finished off the widow. You don't come here to take life easy. Beat that any of ye. What say ye? Zoe. You'se a dead man, Mas'r Clusky---you got to b'lieve dat. I won't hear a word! 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