O, my---my heart! George says he can "overcome the obstacle" (43), but Zoe protests that they cannot be together. I feel so big with joy, creation ain't wide enough to hold me. Here's the Picayune [producing paper] with the advertisement. *EnterThibodeauxand*Sunnyside,R.U.E. Thibo. Wahnotee. Dora. Do I? Ben Tolosa You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. She didn't mind how kind old judge was to her; and Solon, too, he'll holler, and break de ole lady's heart. Scud. Minnie (a Quadroon Slave) Miss Walters. Improvements---anything, from a stay-lace to a fire-engine. If it don't stain de cup, your wicked ole life's in danger, sure! Dora then reappears and bids on Zoe she has sold her own plantation in order to rescue Terrebonne. Point. I have come to say good-by, sir; two hard words---so hard, they might break many a heart; mightn't they? I'll see to that. Zoe, must we immolate our lives on her prejudice? [Aside to Pete.] See here---there's a small freight of turpentine in the fore hold there, and one of the barrels leaks; a spark from your engines might set the ship on fire, and you'd go with it. When the play was performed in England it was given a happy ending, in which the mixed-race couple are united. He loves Zoe, and has found out that she loves him. [Throws mail bags down and sits on them,L. C.] Pret, now den go. Zoe, you have suspected the feeling that now commands an utterance---you have seen that I love you. Pete. Now don't stir. Well, that's all right; but as he can't marry her, and as Miss Dora would jump at him---. George. A photographic plate. Frank Capra, If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development. Scud. Peyton.]. Hold quiet, you trash o' niggers! Paul! ", Zoe. they call it the Yankee hugging the Creole. The word octoroon signifies a person of one-eighth African ancestry. M'Closky. For the first time, twenty-five thousand---last time! must I learn from these poor wretches how much I owed, how I ought to pay the debt? [Conceals himself.]. Mrs. P.Why didn't you mention this before? Mrs. P.She need not keep us waiting breakfast, though. Zoe. [Indignantly.] But what do we pay for that possession? Pete. or say the word, and I'll buy this old barrack, and you shall be mistress of Terrebonne. Top a bit! Save me---save me! 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. if this is so, she's mine! Haven't you worked like a horse? [During the dialogueWahnoteehas takenGeorge'sgun. [Returning with rifle.] He said so. Zoe. Hillo, darkey, hand me a smash dar. Come, form a court then, choose a jury---we'll fix this varmin. She's won this race agin the white, anyhow; it's too late now to start her pedigree. O, how d'ye do, sir? With Dora's wealth, he explains, Terrebonne will not be sold and the slaves will not have to be separated. Excuse me, I'll light a cigar. Zoe, tell Pete to give my mare a feed, will ye? Zoe. Sunny. Come, cheer up, old friend. M'Closky. Take my shawl, Zoe. 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. No; but I loved you so, I could not bear my fate; and then I stood your heart and hers. Author: Mike Watt. If Omenee remain, Wahnotee will die in Terrebonne. what are you blowing about like a steamboat with one wheel for? Let me hide them till I teach my heart. Point. Stop; this would. Why, Dora, what's the matter? He sleeps---no; I see a light. Scud. No; a weakness, that's all---a little water. George. ], George. Because it was the truth; and I had rather be a slave with a free soul, than remain free with a slavish, deceitful heart. 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. Omnes. Well, is he not thus afflicted now? [Shows plate to jury.] Come, Miss Dora, let me offer you my arm. Mr. M'Closky has bid twenty-five thousand dollars for the Octoroon. Zoe. 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. Nebber mind, sar, we bring good news---it won't spile for de keeping. O, that's it, is it? Was dat?---a cry out dar in de swamp---dar agin! I thought none but colored people worked. European, I suppose. Mrs. Pey. Judy Collins, You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music." I appeal against your usurped authority. O, dear, has he suddenly come to his senses? but her image will pass away like a little cloud that obscured your happiness a while---you will love each other; you are both too good not to join your hearts. Zoe, bring here the judge's old desk; it is in the library. He who can love so well is honest---don't speak ill of poor Wahnotee. Excuse me ladies. M'Closky. Zoe. Well when I say go, den lift dis rag like dis, see! why, clar out! ], M'Closky. 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. No; if you were I'd buy you, if you cost all I'm worth. Darn me, if I couldn't raise thirty thousand on the envelope alone, and ten thousand more on the post-mark. Squire Sunnyside, you've got a pretty bit o' land, Squire. [*ExitScudderand*Mrs. Peyton,R.U.E. George. See also O, dear Zoe, is he in love with anybody? The Octoroon (1913) - Quotes - IMDb Menu Edit The Octoroon (1913) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. [Georgepours contents of phial in glass. (p. 221) Daniel J. Siegel. Ten years ago the judge took as overseer a bit of Connecticut hardware called M'Closky. I will take the best room in the Grand Central or the Orndorff Hotel. Stan' back, I say I I'll nip the first that lays a finger on Him. M'Closky. she look as though she war gwine to have a tooth drawed! | About Us 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. Dora. George. Unlock this Study Guide! Everybody---that is, I heard so. | Contact Us Den say de missus, "'Tain't for de land I keer, but for dem poor niggars---dey'll be sold---dat wot stagger me." | Privacy Policy Scud. We'll hire out our slaves, and live on their wages. Zoe, he's going; I want him to stay and make love to me that's what I came for to-day. M'Closky. M'Closky. Is there any other bid? Mr. Scudder, take us with you---Mr. Peyton is so slow, there's no getting him, on. Dora. Brian Tracy, How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. what will become of her when I am gone? Paul. Mrs. P.I fear that the property is so involved that the strictest economy will scarcely recover it. We've had talk enough; now for proof. I will dine on oysters and palomitas and wash them down with white wine. Pete. Lafouche. It was like trying to make a shark sit up and beg for treats. So I came here to you; to you, my own dear nurse; to you, who so often hushed me to sleep when I was a child; who dried my eyes and put your little Zoe to rest. I say, I'd like to say summit soft to the old woman; perhaps it wouldn't go well, would it? That's a challenge to begin a description of my feminine adventures. George. If I was to try, I'd bust. M'Closky. How dar you say dat, you black nigger, you? It was that rascal M'Closky---but he got rats, I avow---he killed the boy, Paul, to rob this letter from the mail-bags---the letter from Liverpool you know---he sot fire to the shed---that was how the steamboat got burned up. Yes, for I'd rather be black than ungrateful! I've got four plates ready, in case we miss the first shot. 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. Mrs. P.Wahnotee, will you go back to your people? George. To Jacob M'Closky, the Octoroon girl, Zoe, twenty-five thousand dollars. That one black drop of blood burns in her veins and lights up her heart like a foggy sun. 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. Dido. They don't seem to be scared by the threat. He don't understand; he speaks a mash-up of Indian and Mexican. Ugh' ach! Is it on such evidence you'd hang a human being? [Wahnotee*rushes on, and at*M'Closky,L.H.]. Mrs. P.O, George,---my son, let me call you,---I do not speak for my own sake, nor for the loss of the estate, but for the poor people here; they will be sold, divided, and taken away---they have been born here. I must see you no more. Paul. Pete. things have got so jammed in on top of us, we ain't got time to put kid gloves on to handle them. M'Closky. So it is. Zoe. [Stands with his hand extended towards the house, and tableau.]. 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!". M'Closky. I have a restorative here---will you poor it in the glass? Poor little Paul---poor little nigger! McClosky has proved that Judge Peyton did not succeed in legally freeing her, as he had meant to do. O, how I lapped up her words, like a thirsty bloodhound! Zoe, you are pale. What! M'Closky. That's about right. *EnterMrs. PeytonandScudder, M'Closkyand*Pointdexter,R. M'Closky. Sunny. ah! Gentlemen, we are all acquainted with the circumstances of this girl's position, and I feel sure that no one here will oppose the family who desires to redeem the child of our esteemed and noble friend, the late Judge Peyton. Hold on! look sar! M'Closky. They are gone!---[*Glancing at*George.] You want to hurt yourself. Mrs. Pey. Sunny. Pete. EnterPaul,R.U.E.,withIndian,who goes up. *EnterPete, Pointdexter, Jackson, Lafouche,and*Caillou,R.U.E. Pete. 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. Dora, I once made you weep; those were the only tears I caused any body. Ratts. George---George---hush---they come! Scud. What's this? Dora said you were slow; if she could hear you now---. Zoe. His love for me will pass away---it shall. 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. 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