Zoe. 3, Pete, a house servant. Zoe. 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. 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. I the sharer of your sorrows---your wife. For what I have done, let me be tried. she look as though she war gwine to have a tooth drawed! If you haven't spoiled her, I fear I have. what, dem?---get away! Pete. Go outside, there; listen to what you hear, then go down to the quarters and tell the boys, for I can't do it. Sunny. One hundred thousand bid for this mag---. That's enough. I must see you no more. 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. M'Closky. Mrs. P.Yes, there is a hope left yet, and I cling to it. [Smiling.] 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. We've caught this murdering Injiun, and are going to try him. Dat you drink is fust rate for red fever. O, how d'ye do, sir? O, none for me; I never eat. Stand around and let me pass---room thar! Do you think they would live here on such terms? How the flames crack. 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. 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. New York, NY, Linda Ray You told me it produced a long, long sleep. Are you ready? Extremely popular, the play was kept running continuously for years by seven road companies. May Heaven bless him for the thought, bless him for the happiness he spread around my life. [Examines the ground.] You are a white man; you'll not leave one of your own blood to be butchered by the red-skin? Zoe. This lynch law is a wild and lawless proceeding. Scud. Ha! To be alive is to be breathing. Pete. Dido. Scud. Dido. and will despise me, spurn me, loathe me, when he learns who, what, he has so loved.---[Aloud.] A large table is in theC.,at back. The judge drew money like Bourbon whiskey from a barrel, and never turned off the tap. Why don't he speak?---I mean, you feared I might not give you credit for sincere and pure feelings. [Aside to Zoe.] Ya! Pete. I listen dar jess now---dar was ole lady cryin'---Mas'r George---ah! Scud. [DrivesChildrenaway; in escaping they tumble against and trip upSolon,who falls with tray; theChildrensteal the bananas and rolls that fall about.]. In a little time this darned business will blow over, and I can show again. Back at Terrebonne, Zoe returns but with a sad heart, as she knows that she and George can never be together. Thib. Zoe, bring here the judge's old desk; it is in the library. Zoe. I tell ye dar's somebody in dar. [GoesR.,*and looks atWahnotee,L.,through the camera;Wahnoteesprings back with an expression of alarm.*]. As my wife,---the sharer of my hopes, my ambitions, and my sorrows; under the shelter of your love I could watch the storms of fortune pass unheeded by. Dora. [Brings hammer down.] ], Scud. Mas'r Ratts, you hard him sing about de place where de good niggers go, de last time. Scud. | About Us [Shows plate. Curse their old families---they cut me---a bilious, conceited, thin lot of dried up aristocracy. Zoe. I shall knock it down to the Squire---going---gone---for one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. After various slaves are auctioned off, George and the buyers are shocked to see Zoe up on the stand. what will become of her when I am gone? Hello! No, ma'am; here's the plan of it. You say the proceeds of the sale will not cover his debts. [Zoe*helps her. Why, judge, wasn't you lawyer enough to know that while a judgment stood against you it was a lien on your slaves? Cut, cut the rope---I choke---choke!---Ah! M'Closky. What say ye, gentlemen? Zoe. I'm broke, Solon---I can't stop the Judge. [C.] My dear aunt, why do you not move from this painful scene? No; but I loved you so, I could not bear my fate; and then I stood your heart and hers. can you smile at this moment? [Fire seen,R.]. Paul. 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. [*To*Ratts.] M'Closky. You got four of dem dishes ready. M'Closky. Fair or foul, I'll have her---take that home with you! M'Closky. "Whar's Paul?" Hold your tongue---it must. EnterPete,R.U.E. [he is lame]; he carries a mop and pail. George. Wahnotee. [Scandalized.] M'Closky. Guess it kill a dozen---nebber try. Pete. I shall endeavor not to be jealous of the past; perhaps I have no right to be. Where is he? a slave! The Octoroon's Sacrifice (1912) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. No, it ain't; because, just then, what does the judge do, but hire another overseer---a Yankee---a Yankee named Salem Scudder. Ratts. A julep, gal, that's my breakfast, and a bit of cheese. That's a challenge to begin a description of my feminine adventures. Pete. Aunt, I will take my rifle down to the Atchafalaya. PART ONE: The estate of Terrebonne, in Louisiana, had been heavily mortgaged by the owner, Judge Payton, who, when he died, left the estate to his brother's widow and her son George, making Mrs. Peyton the guardian of Zoe, his natural daughter by a quadroon. "No," say Mas'r George, "I'd rather sell myself fuss; but dey shan't suffer, nohow,---I see 'em dam fuss.". Hold quiet, you trash o' niggers! Coute Wahnotee in omenee dit go Wahnotee, poina la fa, comb a pine tree, la revieut sala, la fa. [Returning with rifle.] Point. Scud. Wal, as it consarns you, perhaps you better had. Nebber supply no more, sar---nebber dance again. Gentlemen, the sale takes place at three. Ain't you took them bags to the house yet? Zoe. I hate 'em. O, why did he speak to me at all then? burn! To Jacob M'Closky, the Octoroon girl, Zoe, twenty-five thousand dollars. [Searching him.] O, I have not spoiled that anyhow. That part of it all is performance for the media. It's no use you putting on airs; I ain't gwine to sit up wid you all night and you drunk. I'm from fair to middlin', like a bamboo cane, much the same all the year round. Zoe. Pete. [Wahnotee*sits*L.,rolled in blanket.]. You begged me to call this morning. You slew him with that tomahawk; and as you stood over his body with the letter in your hand, you thought that no witness saw the deed, that no eye was on you---but there was, Jacob M'Closky, there was. I'll murder this yer crowd, [*He chases*Childrenabout; they leap over railing at back. His love for me will pass away---it shall. Zoe. I wish they could sell me! Let me hide them till I teach my heart. Be the first to contribute! "A fine, well-built old family mansion, replete with every comfort.". [Aside,C.] Insolent as usual.---[Aloud.] O, golly! Good morning, Colonel. No, Injiun; we deal out justice here, not revenge. Enjoy reading and share 1 famous quotes about The Octoroonwith everyone. Haven't you worked like a horse? I sat outside his door all night---I heard his sighs---his agony---torn from him by my coming fate; and he said, "I'd rather see her dead than his!". Grace (a Yellow Girl, a Slave) Miss Gimber Dido (the Cook, a Slave) Mrs. Dunn. So it went, till one day the judge found the tap wouldn't run. See also An Octoroon is a play written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. 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. Pete. M'Closky. I'll sweep these Peytons from this section of the country. George, you may without a blush confess your love for the Octoroon! Only three of his plays were to have an American setting, The Octoroon is one of these. Scud. Dear Dora, try to understand it with your heart. Dem debils. M'Closky. Yah! Well, then, what has my all-cowardly heart got to skeer me so for? What! I arrived just too late, he had grabbed the prize as I came up. 4, the Octoroon girl, Zoe.". So we believe; and so mad are the folks around, if they catch the red-skin they'll lynch him sure. dead---and above him---Ah! 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. To "Mrs. Peyton, Terrebonne, Louisiana, United States." You don't see Zoe, Mr. Sunnyside. Ratts. 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. Burn, burn! What, on Terrebonne! Mrs. P.George, you are incorrigible. ], M'Closky. here's Mas'r Sunnyside, and Missey Dora, jist drov up. George. George. Now, den, if Grace dere wid her chil'n were all sold, she'll begin screechin' like a cat. It is such scenes as these that bring disgrace upon our Western life. We're ready; the jury's impanelled---go ahead---who'll be accuser? Paul. The Octoroons have no apparent trace of the Negro in their appearance but still are subject to the legal disabilities which attach them to the condition of blacks. Would you rob me first, and murder me afterwards? Take your hand down---take it down. ], M'Closky. Born here! Scud. To-morrow they'll bloom the same---all will be here as now, and I shall be cold. Why don't you speak, sir? Paul has promised me a bear and a deer or two. The proof is here, in my heart. "When she goes along, she just leaves a streak of love behind her. Dion Boucicault. Were they all born on this estate? George, do you see that hand you hold? If we can't behave like Christians, let's try and act like gentlemen. I fled; it followed. If Omenee remain, Wahnotee will die in Terrebonne. [M'Closky*lowers his hand. Is the prisoner guilty, or is he not guilty? M'Closky. Sorry I can't help you, but the fact is, you're in such an all-fired mess that you couldn't be pulled out without a derrick. Zoe. George, George, your words take away my breath! I'll take back my bid, Colonel. Yes; you was the first to hail Judge Lynch. No---no. Gustave Flaubert, Not that anyone short of God Almighty could have gotten Marcus Senior to rest and take it easy. [Doraattempts to take it.] There's no chance of it. 49, Paul, a quadroon boy, aged thirteen. The judge didn't understand accounts---the overseer did. Why you speak so wild? "Sign that," says the overseer; "it's only a formality." Zoe, I love you none the less; this knowledge brings no revolt to my heart, and I can overcome the obstacle. I want you to buy Terrebonne. | Privacy Policy How can you ask that vulgar ruffian to your table? That's about right. ah! Didn't I? Pete, speak to the red-skin. Dora. Scud. Mrs. P.O, Salem! Good day, ma'am. But what do we pay for that possession? My dear husband never kept any accounts, and we scarcely know in what condition the estate really is. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. Now, I feel bad about my share in the business. Ah! The sun is rising. I feel that I departed amid universal and sincere regret. Mrs. P.No wonder! Jacob M'Closky, you shan't have that girl. While the proceeds of this sale promises to realize less than the debts upon it, it is my duty to prevent any collusion for the depreciation of the property. Here she is---Zoe!---water---she faints. De time he gone just 'bout enough to cook dat dish plate. "No. Adam had a job, a place to live, and food that he could provide for his woman. I think we may begin business. You ign'ant Injiun, it can't hurt you! Now, my culled brethren, gird up your lines, and listen---hold on yer bref---it's a comin. 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