Peyton.] Stop! The apparatus can't mistake. 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. Scud. That's right. if dey aint all lighted, like coons, on dat snake fence, just out of shot. Where am I to get it? O, laws-a-mussey, see dis; here's a pictur' I found stickin' in that yar telescope machine, sar! Sunny. [Opens it.] See also Trivia | Goofs | Crazy Credits | Alternate Versions | Connections | Soundtracks Getting Started | Contributor Zone Sunny. You heard him say it was hopeless. George R R Martin. Dam dat Injiun! EnterPaul,R.U.E.,withIndian,who goes up. The first mortgagee bids forty thousand dollars. How can you ask that vulgar ruffian to your table? Look here, you're free, you know nary a master to hurt you now: you will stop here as long as you're a mind to, only don't look so. Ratts. Forgive him, Dora; for he knew no better until I told him. You can't control everything in life Gemma Burgess, Never had he beheld such a magnificent brown skin, so entrancing a figure, such dainty, transparent fingers. Yes, den a glass ob fire-water; now den. If I must die, give me up to the law; but save me from the tomahawk. They are gone!---[*Glancing at*George.] Lafouche. Thib. So it is. [Aside to Sunnyside.] M'Closky. I will take the best room in the Grand Central or the Orndorff Hotel. Is there any other bid? Hold on yere, George Peyton; you sit down there. Scud. Sorry I can't return the compliment. Pete. O, forgive him and me! [*Hands papers to*Mrs. Scud. Zoe. I don't tink you will any more, but dis here will; 'cause de family spile Dido, dey has. Back at Terrebonne, Zoe returns but with a sad heart, as she knows that she and George can never be together. I'll bear it. Hush! Why, Minnie, why don't you run when you hear, you lazy crittur? And I remained here to induce you to offer that heart to Dora! Point. 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. (p. 221) Daniel J. Siegel. She nebber was 'worth much 'a dat nigger. George. Providence has chosen your executioner. he must not see me. [Eagerly.] He didn't ought to bid against a lady. You nasty, lying Injiun! Sunny. *EnterPete, Grace, Minnie, Solon, Dido,and all*Niggers,R.U.E. Pete. Aunt, I will take my rifle down to the Atchafalaya. Sunny. Zoe. Scud. Were they all born on this estate? You got dat bottle of rum hid under your blanket---gib it up now, you---Yar! I don't know, but I feel it's death! have I fixed ye? [L.] Mr. George, I'm going to say somethin' that has been chokin' me for some time. M'Closky. M'Closky. Hush! . It is an adaptation of Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon , which premiered in 1859. Synopsis. I will be thirty years old again in thirty seconds. [R.] Then why don't you buy it yourself, Colonel? Ratts. Evidence! Grace. What's he doing; is he asleep? O, you horrible man! I believe Mr. M'Closky has a bill of sale on them. [R. C.] That's my son---buy him, Mas'r Ratts; he's sure to sarve you well. "No," say Mas'r George, "I'd rather sell myself fuss; but dey shan't suffer, nohow,---I see 'em dam fuss.". Zoe. black as nigger; clar as ice. An Octoroon is a play written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. must I learn from these poor wretches how much I owed, how I ought to pay the debt? If you haven't spoiled her, I fear I have. 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 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." There are no witnesses but a rum bottle and an old machine. No; but you, aunty, you are wise---you know every plant, don't you, and what it is good for? Zoe. He said I want a nigger. Point. M'Closky. [Pete holds lantern up.] Hold on! How dar you say dat, you black nigger, you? Judy Collins, You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music." The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart. Zoe. Point. My home, my home! Here we are on the selvage of civilization. You're bidding to separate them, Judge. Mrs. P.You are out early this morning, George. With them around us, if we have not wealth, we shall at least have the home that they alone can make---. Scud. 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. Only three of his plays were to have an American setting, The Octoroon is one of these. Paul! May Heaven bless him for the thought, bless him for the happiness he spread around my life. What more d'ye want---ain't that proof enough? ExitScudderandPete,R.1. [The knives disappear.] Scud. No, no! Point. He stood gazing in wonder at her work-basket as if it was something extraordinary. Thib. [2] Among antebellum melodramas, it was considered second in popularity only to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852).[3]. 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. I saw a small bottle of cologne and asked if it was for sale. It ain't necessary for me to dilate, describe, or enumerate; Terrebonne is known to you as one of the richest bits of sile in Louisiana, and its condition reflects credit on them as had to keep it. Dora. Zoe. [Scandalized.] yonder goes the Indian! Jackson. The Octoroon is a play by Dion Boucicault that opened in 1859 at The Winter Garden Theatre, New York City. Coventry Patmore, if a man has no stability when you meet him, you may want to stay clear of him. Peyton.]. The Octoroon: The Story of the Turpentine Forest (1909) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. You are right, sir; though I shrank from expressing that opinion in her presence, so bluntly. [C.] I'm sorry to intrude, but the business I came upon will excuse me. Pete. Zoe. Point. Dora. Franco Harris, You have to let it go. [*Seizes whip, and holds*Paul. The Octoroon's Sacrifice (1912) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. [Raises hand to back of his neck.] Dora. [Enters house.]. [Sits,R.] Look thar! The Octoroon or The Lily of Louisiana is a dark tale of crime, race and slavery. I daren't move fear to spile myself. Pete. Mr. George is in love with Zoe. The more bidders, the better for you. M'Closky. George. No, Injiun; we deal out justice here, not revenge. then I shall be sold!---sold! *EnterPete, Dido, Solon, Minnie,and*Grace. he is here. Mrs. P.Poor child! Make an argument for each side of the slavery argument here, analyzing how the play could be read as both anti- and pro-slavery. Dora. Boucicault's manuscript actually reads "Indian, French and 'Merican." All hands aboard there---cut the starn ropes---give her headway! Ratts. Squire Sunnyside is going to sell this at fifty thousand advance to-morrow.---[Looks round.] Take your hand down---take it down. When I am dead she will not be jealous of your love for me, no laws will stand between us. *] Whenever I gets into company like yours, I always start with the advantage on my side. Dora. Very bad, aunty; and the heart aches worse, so they can get no rest. Ivan Glasenberg, Very few things hurt my young ego more than an Asian female openly shaming me for my Asian-ness. what will become of her when I am gone? What! now mind. Scud. Where is Mr. Scudder? Mrs. P.Zoe, dear, I'm glad to see you more calm this morning. I wish they could sell me! Scud. Then, if I sink every dollar I'm worth in her purchase, I'll own that Octoroon. I know then that the boy was killed with that tomahawk---the red-skin owns it---the signs of violence are all round the shed---this apparatus smashed---ain't it plain that in a drunken fit he slew the boy, and when sober concealed the body yonder? Excuse me; one of the principal mortgagees has made the demand. I do, but I can't do it. Scud. Point. Boucicault The Octoroon Quotes & Sayings. M'Closky. I don't know when my time on earth will be up; but I DO know that today, I am one day closer. 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. I'll clear him off there---he'll never know what stunned him. Mrs. P.My dear George, you are left in your uncle's will heir to this estate. No---no. 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. Why you tremble so? George. hark! Dar, do ye hear dat, ye mis'able darkies, dem gals is worth a boat load of kinder men dem is. What's this? George. New York, NY, Linda Ray See also Here's the Picayune [producing paper] with the advertisement. I'd be darned glad if somebody would tear my past life away from me. Go now, George---leave me---take her with you. Dat's right, missus! Mrs. Peyton, George Peyton, Terrebonne is yours. George, do you see that hand you hold? But what do we pay for that possession? Then I shall never leave Terrebonne---the drink, nurse; the drink; that I may never leave my home---my dear, dear home. Fifteen thousand. De time he gone just 'bout enough to cook dat dish plate. George. Those free papers ain't worth the sand that's on 'em. Some of you niggers run and hole de hosses; and take dis, Dido. Says he'll go if I'll go with him. Grace (a Yellow Girl, a Slave) Miss Gimber Dido (the Cook, a Slave) Mrs. Dunn. Zoe. The machine can't err---you may mistake your phiz but the apparatus don't." I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. Ratts. Pete. You told me it produced a long, long sleep. Miss Sunnyside, permit me a word; a feeling of delicacy has suspended upon my lips an avowal, which---. EnterLafoucheand*Jackson,L. Jackson. George. Yonder is the boy---now is my time! I'll see to that. [Outside,R.U.E.] Dis way---dis way. What say ye? [*ExitScudderand*Mrs. Peyton,R.U.E. George. Jacob M'Closky, you shan't have that girl. 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