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George. He can fight though he's a painter; claws all over. Raits. yar, you Wahnotee! Zoe. It is such scenes as these that bring disgrace upon our Western life. M'Closkyruns off,L.1. 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. Come, Judge, pick up. You'll find him scenting round the rum store, hitched up by the nose. she will har you. What say ye? 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. Hi! [Zoe sings without,L.]. [Aside.] Be calm---darn the things; the proceeds of this sale won't cover the debts of the estate. Scud. 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. Zoe. Put your hands on your naked breasts, and let every man as don't feel a real American heart there, bustin' up with freedom, truth, and right, let that man step out---that's the oath I put to ye---and then say, Darn ye, go it! Why don't he return to his nation out West? Pointdexter*mounts the table with his hammer, his Clerk sits at his feet. [Draws knife.] ], Paul. The judge didn't understand accounts---the overseer did. Dora. The child---'tis he! Mr. Sunnyside, I can't do this job of showin' round the folks; my stomach goes agin it. Ten years ago the judge took as overseer a bit of Connecticut hardware called M'Closky. An Octoroon is a play written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. Jacob M'Closky, you shan't have that girl. [Going.]. Research Playwrights, Librettists, Composers and Lyricists. I---my mother was---no, no---not her! Just as soon as we put this cotton on board. Dora. None o' ye ign'rant niggars could cry for yerselves like dat. [Doraattempts to take it.] Scud. Hush! Now, I feel bad about my share in the business. Zoe. One hundred and forty-nine bales. Lynch him! Darn it, when I see a woman in trouble, I feel like selling the skin off my back. . I ain't no count, sar. | About Us Zoe. Let me hide them till I teach my heart. What more d'ye want---ain't that proof enough? Point. That part of it all is performance for the media. [1] O! Dora. Now, Jacob M'Closky, you despise me because you think I'm a fool; I despise you because I know you to be a knave. 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. No, ma'am; here's the plan of it. [Pete goes down.] Stephen King, I have a feeling that demonstrations don't accomplish anything. Dat's me---yer, I'm comin'---stand around dar. What? Hillo! I felt it---and how she can love! Scud. come home---there are strangers in the house. [] 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) [2] Among antebellum melodramas, it was considered second in popularity only to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852).[3]. Ratts. When Dion Boucicault's tragedy The Octoroon (set on a southern plantation) opened in December of 1859, many viewed the play as sectional propaganda; there was widespread disagreement, however, concerning the side for which the play argued. [Calling at door.] M'Closky. New York, NY, Ages 12-17: Camp Broadway Ensemble @ Carnegie Hall Look here, the boy knows and likes me, Judge; let him come my way? I am free! At college they said I was a fool---I must be. *] Whenever I gets into company like yours, I always start with the advantage on my side. Hold on! Evidence! [Aside.] [Seizing a fly whisk.] Dora. Enjoy reading and share 14 famous quotes about Boucicaults The Octoroon with everyone. I don't know; she may as well hear the hull of it. Good morning, Mr. Sunnyside; Miss Dora, your servant. All Rights Reserved. Zoe. Poor Injiun lub our little Paul. To "Mrs. Peyton, Terrebonne, Louisiana, United States." There is a gulf between us, as wide as your love, as deep as my despair; but, O, tell me, say you will pity me! So it went, till one day the judge found the tap wouldn't run. *], [Light fires.---Draw flats and discoverPaul'sgrave.---M'Closky*dead on top of it.---Wahnoteestanding triumphantly over him.*]. What was her name? save me! I'll have her, if it costs me my life! Ratts. Can you take any more? Now, my culled brethren, gird up your lines, and listen---hold on yer bref---it's a comin. And we all Yes, we do, ma'am; it's in a darned bad condition. Zoe. How came they in your possession? TheNegromounts the table from behind*C.The Company sit. 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. "No. O, no; Mas'r Scudder, don't leave Mas'r Closky like dat---don't, sa---'tain't what good Christian should do. Thib. M'Closky. No; if you were I'd buy you, if you cost all I'm worth. Dat's right, missus! Not a bale. Zoe. It is certain, madam; the judge was negligent, and doubtless forgot this small formality. Dora. Now, Mr. George, between the two overseers, you and that good old lady have come to the ground; that is the state of things, just as near as I can fix it. Why should I refer the blame to her? There's no chance of it. for me---look ye here! Do you mean that I'm a pig? how can you say so? [R.U.E.] I was raised on dis yar plantation---neber see no door in it---always open, sar, for stranger to walk in. Extremely popular, the play was kept running continuously for years by seven road companies. I could not do it. The house of Mason Brothers, of Liverpool, failed some twenty years ago in my husband's debt. My love? Here she is---Zoe!---water---she faints. He said so. Come, Paul, are you ready? Ratts. George. I see it in your face. But don't mount to nuffin---kin work cannel. Bless'ee, Missey Zoe, here it be. Pete. Sunny. ya! [*With-draws slide, turns and sees*Paul.] How the flames crack. Stand around and let me pass---room thar! 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. Wood up thar, you Polio---hang on to the safety valve---guess she'll crawl off on her paddles. I daren't move fear to spile myself. Bless his dear old handwriting, it's all I ever saw of him. You told me it produced a long, long sleep. Why, Minnie, why don't you run when you hear, you lazy crittur? He wanted to know what furniture she had in her bedroom, the dresses she wore, the people she knew; even his physical desire for her gave way to a deeper yearning, a boundless, aching curiosity. Zoe, must we immolate our lives on her prejudice? Hello! And I remained here to induce you to offer that heart to Dora! 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. Zoe!---she faints! I feel that I departed amid universal and sincere regret. Lafouche. What, sar? Scud. Ah! Scud. if I had you one by one, alone in the swamp, I'd rip ye all. [M'Closky*strikes him on the head---he falls dead.*]. See Injiun; look dar [shows him plate], see dat innocent: look, dar's de murderer of poor Paul. 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. What's this? Paul and Wahnotee arrive back with the mailbags and play around with the camera. Zoe. Search him, we may find more evidence. [Scandalized.] Why, judge, wasn't you lawyer enough to know that while a judgment stood against you it was a lien on your slaves? Sunny. [Outside,R.] Whar's Missus---whar's Mas'r George? Dido. [Tumbles upon the table.]. Mrs. P.My dear George, you are left in your uncle's will heir to this estate. Pete, you old turkey-buzzard, saddle my mare. No! 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---. Denora Boone, Everybody who went to Vietnam carries his or her own version of the war. I'm from fair to middlin', like a bamboo cane, much the same all the year round. [Georgepours contents of phial in glass. [GoesR.,*and looks atWahnotee,L.,through the camera;Wahnoteesprings back with an expression of alarm.*]. Mrs. Pey. George, you cannot marry me; the laws forbid it! Ain't he! My father gives me freedom---at least he thought so. You may drink dat, Mas'r George. Work! Hush! You called it yourself; you wanted to make us murder that Injiun; and since we've got our hands in for justice, we'll try it on you. What say ye, gentlemen? It concerns the residents of a Louisiana plantation called Terrebonne, and sparked debates about the abolition of slavery and the role of theatre in politics. I shall knock it down to the Squire---going---gone---for one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Some of those sirens of Paris, I presume, [Pause.] All night, as I fled through the cane-brake, I heard footsteps behind me. When the play was performed in England it was given a happy ending, in which the mixed-race couple are united. [Sits,R.] Look thar! If there is no bid for the estate and stuff, we'll sell it in smaller lots. Pete. I don't tink you will any more, but dis here will; 'cause de family spile Dido, dey has. E. Paul. Boucicaults The Octoroon famous quotes & sayings: Ivan Glasenberg: We work. Be the first to contribute! Ya! Something forcing its way through the undergrowth---it comes this way---it's either a bear or a runaway nigger. Zoe. My darling! It's such a long time since I did this sort of thing, and this old machine has got so dirty and stiff, I'm afraid it won't operate. Scud. How long before we start, captain? In a word, I have seen and admired you! Do I? Now, it ain't no use trying to get mad, Mas'r Scudder. Scud. Then, if I sink every dollar I'm worth in her purchase, I'll own that Octoroon. 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. Squire Sunnyside is going to sell this at fifty thousand advance to-morrow.---[Looks round.] The play was adapted by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins as An Octoroon in 2014. Sunnyside, how good you are; so like my poor Peyton. M'Closky. The Wharf---goods, boxes, and bales scattered about---a camera on stand, R. Scudder, R., Dora, L., George*andPauldiscovered;Dorabeing photographed byScudder,who is arranging photographic apparatus,GeorgeandPaullooking on at back.*. Zoe. 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. Point. I fetch as much as any odder cook in Louisiana. I didn't know whether they are completely honest. You thought you had cornered me, did ye? 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. [Eagerly.] Scud. George, O, forgive me! Scud. Dora, I once made you weep; those were the only tears I caused any body. Yes, den a glass ob fire-water; now den. Mrs. P.[R.] No, George; your uncle said to me with his dying breath, "Nellie, never leave Terrebonne," and I never will leave it, till the law compels me. Boucicault adapted the play from the novel The Quadroon by Thomas Mayne Reid (1856). there again!---no; it was only the wind over the canes. I have come to say good-by, sir; two hard words---so hard, they might break many a heart; mightn't they? George. Look at 'em, Jacob, for they are honest water from the well of truth. George. George. Judge, my friend. Thib. this old Liverpool debt---that may cross me---if it only arrive too late---if it don't come by this mail---Hold on! Yes, missus. Look dar! Do you want me to stop here and bid for it? Pete. [Dora*gets water.] Says he'll go if I'll go with him. Dora. Judge, you can raise the hull on mortgage---going for half its value. She said, "It's free with purchase." 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. Scud. [Makes sign thatPaulwas killed by a blow on the head.]. You don't come here to take life easy. Minnie (a Quadroon Slave) Miss Walters. Paul. We tought dat de niggers would belong to de ole missus, and if she lost Terrebonne, we must live dere allers, and we would hire out, and bring our wages to ole Missus Peyton. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory. ], Pete. I won't hear a word! Yah! George. [Slowly lowering his whip,] Darn you, red skin, I'll pay you off some day, both of ye. Point. Pete. Dar, do ye hear dat, ye mis'able darkies, dem gals is worth a boat load of kinder men dem is. Pete. Stop! But dis ain't all. Point. Ya! *Enter*Wahnotee,R.;they are all about to rush on him. I saw the mail-bags lying in the shed this morning. In comparison, a quadroon would have one quarter African ancestry and a mulatto for the most part has historically implied half African ancestry. George reluctantly agrees. you're looking well. George. O! Sunny. No---no. Ah. Ask the color in your face; d'ye think I can't read you, like a book? Zoe. M'Closky. Why don't you speak, sir? Zoe. Paul. here's a bit of leather; [draws out mail-bags] the mail-bags that were lost! They are gone!---[*Glancing at*George.] Scud. Mrs. P.Poor child! Here you are, in the very attitude of your crime! I won't strike him, even with words. you bomn'ble fry---git out---a gen'leman can't pass for you. Hold your tongue---it must. Mrs. Claiborne Miss Clinton. that's right. Ratts. Hey! Scud. he's coming this way, fighting with his Injiun. Ratts. The injiun! Not a picayune. Terrebonne is yours. M'Closky. Peyton.]. Paul. Tableaux.*. For the first time, twenty-five thousand---last time! He loves Zoe, and has found out that she loves him. 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. I'm not guilty; would ye murder me? Where is he? What's the law? I wish they could sell me! Mrs. P.So, Pete, you are spoiling those children as usual! But out it flew, free for everybody or anybody to beg, borrow, or steal. Impossible; you have seen no one; whom can you mean? Zoe. Point. That one black drop of blood burns in her veins and lights up her heart like a foggy sun. Fellow-citizens, you are convened and assembled here under a higher power than the law. [Examines the ground.] [Speaking in his ear-trumpet.] "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. Is this a dream---for my brain reels with the blow? The Octoroon: The Story of the Turpentine Forest (1909) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. No, no! No; Wahnotee is a gentle, honest creature, and remains here because he loves that boy with the tenderness of a woman. Don't b'lieve it, Mas'r George,---no. O! 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. Is the prisoner guilty, or is he not guilty? ", Pete. Since this letter would allow Mrs. Peyton to avoid selling Terrebonne, McClosky kills Paul and takes the letter. [Retires.]. I bid seven thousand, which is the last dollar this family possesses. Scud. George. Never, aunt! 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.". Well, he has the oddest way of making love. 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. Well, he gone dar hisself; why, I tink so---'cause we missed Paul for some days, but nebber tout nothin' till one night dat Injiun Wahnotee suddenly stood right dar 'mongst us---was in his war paint, and mighty cold and grave---he sit down by de fire. She didn't mind how kind old judge was to her; and Solon, too, he'll holler, and break de ole lady's heart. Well, you wrong me. Dora. M'Closky. What's here---judgments? Try him, then---try him on the spot of his crime. "No. He's yours, Captain Ratts, Magnolia steamer. All. 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. [Brings hammer down.] Pete. [Draws pistol---M'Closky*rushes on and falls atScudder'sfeet.*]. 'Tain't no faint---she's a dying, sa; she got pison from old Dido here, this mornin'. Jackson, I want to get to Ophelensis to-night. She's won this race agin the white, anyhow; it's too late now to start her pedigree. I will dine on oysters and palomitas and wash them down with white wine. And dar's de 'paratus---O, gosh, if I could take a likeness ob dis child! Zoe. Scud. 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. When Paul was taken down with the swamp fever the Indian sat outside the hut, and neither ate, slept, or spoke for five days, till the child could recognize and call him to his bedside. George. You want to hurt yourself. 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? You are right, sir; though I shrank from expressing that opinion in her presence, so bluntly. Lafouche. Happy to read and share the best inspirational Boucicault The Octoroon quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes. [*Seizes whip, and holds*Paul. Gosh, wouldn't I like to hab myself took! this infernal letter would have saved all. The earth has been stirred here lately. George. D'ye feel it? How would you like to rule the house of the richest planter on Atchafalaya---eh? Jackson. Yah! Ha, ha! [*Takes Indian's tomahawk and steals to*Paul. 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. Pete. Fifteen thousand bid for the Octoroon. [Returns to table and drinks.]. Jackson. Whoever said so lied. M'Closky. Now's your time, sar. O, Zoe! Ah! Didn't I? EnterLafoucheand*Jackson,L. Jackson. What's here? Solon. Ratts. The Octoroon is a play by Dion Boucicault that opened in 1859 at The Winter Garden Theatre, New York City. ], Scud. I'll trouble you for that piece of baccy, Judge---thank you---so, gentlemen, as life is short, we'll start right off. Stop; this would. [Knocks.] This old nigger, the grandfather of the boy you murdered, speaks for you---don't that go through you? What's dat? Dido. if dey aint all lighted, like coons, on dat snake fence, just out of shot. here's the other one; she's a little too thoroughbred---too much of the greyhound; but the heart's there, I believe. Poor fellow, he has lost all. Go, Minnie, tell Pete; run! Point. Tullian Tchividjian. George. What, you won't, won't ye? Gen'l'men, my colored frens and ladies, dar's mighty bad news gone round. give me the rest that no master but One can disturb---the sleep from which I shall awake free! *] Now, give it to me. Zoe. whew! I feel so big with joy, creation ain't wide enough to hold me. Sorry I can't return the compliment. dem darkies! [Darts between them.] I deserve to be a nigger this day---I feel like one, inside. ], M'Closky. Scud. O, here, do you know what annuity the old judge left you is worth to-day? No, it won't; we have confessed to Dora that we love each other. Essay Topics. Scud. Mrs. P.I expect an important letter from Liverpool; away with you, Paul; bring the mail-bags here. he does not know, he does not know! [*Enter*George,C.] Ah! We've had talk enough; now for proof. 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. Your eyes are red. [*Throws bowie-knife to*M'Closky.] Hole yer tongues. Those free papers ain't worth the sand that's on 'em. no violence---the critter don't know what we mean. So it is here, in the wilds of the West, where our hatred of crime is measured by the speed of our executions---where necessity is law! Wahnotee. Lynch him! He said I want a nigger. Zoe. what will become of her when I am gone? Hold on! Born here! In comparison, a quadroon would have one quarter African ancestry and a mulatto for the most part has historically implied half African ancestry. Lafouche. George. Ah, George, our race has at least one virtue---it knows how to suffer! It is an adaptation of Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon , which premiered in 1859. I'll see to that. I'm afraid they must be right; I can't understand a word of all this. Sunny. "But, sir, it ain't agreeable." Say, Mas'r Scudder, s'pose we go in round by de quarters and raise de darkies, den dey cum long wid us, and we 'proach dat ole house like Gin'ral Jackson when he took London out dar. Is your heart free? I don't think you capable of anything else than---. Pete. 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! If it was the ghost of that murdered boy haunting me! Den say de missus, "'Tain't for de land I keer, but for dem poor niggars---dey'll be sold---dat wot stagger me." Dat's de laziest nigger on dis yere property. I hope we don't intrude on the family. Isn't he sweet! I thought none but colored people worked. Yonder is the boy---now is my time! Brightness will return amongst you. The apparatus can't mistake. What, Mr. Ratts, are you going to invest in swamps? Boucicault The Octoroon Quotes & Sayings. Last night I overheard you weeping in your room, and you said, "I'd rather see her dead than so! Scud. [Raising his voice.] Yes, Mas'r George, dey was born here; and old Pete is fonder on 'em dan he is of his fiddle on a Sunday. [All salute.]. Why, with principal and interest this debt has been more than doubled in twenty years. If even Asian women saw the men of their own blood as less than other men, what was the use in arguing otherwise? 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? Pete. Mrs. P.Wahnotee, will you go back to your people? "Whar's Paul?" [Laughs.]. Mrs. P.I cannot find the entry in my husband's accounts; but you, Mr. M'Closky, can doubtless detect it. He is said to have "combined sentiment, wit and local colour with sensational and spectacular endings" (Nova). Pete. Yonder the boy still lurks with those mail-bags; the devil still keeps him here to tempt me, darn his yellow skin. If you bid me do so I will obey you---. Pete. Paul. stan' round thar! Zoe, you are pale. If she could not accept me, who could? Work, Zoe, is the salt that gives savor to life. Dat's what her soul's gwine to do. 2, the yellow girl Grace, with two children---Saul, aged four, and Victoria five." Minnie, fan me, it is so nice---and his clothes are French, ain't they? E.---Wahnoteefaces him.---Fight---buss. I say, Zoe, do you hear that? Who is it? Missey Zoe! Make an argument for each side of the slavery argument here, analyzing how the play could be read as both anti- and pro-slavery. *EnterPete, Dido, Solon, Minnie,and*Grace. Scud. thank you. Dora, you are right. Scud. His greatest successes however, were on London's stages. *] What a good creature she is. Scud. What, Picayune Paul, as we called, him, that used to come aboard my boat?---poor little darkey, I Hope not; many a picayune he picked up for his dance and nigger-songs, and he supplied our table with fish and game from the Bayous. 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. Paying the iron price. Is not Dora worth any man's---. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. Scud. Stop! Zoe. Five hundred bid---it's a good price. Paul! I shrunk from it and fled. [*To*Zoe.] Stealing a lantern, he sets fire to the steamship that had the slaves on board. Come along; she har what we say, and she's cryin' for us. Dido. Good day, Mr. Thibodeaux---shall we drive down that way? Pete. M'Closky. "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). side.---A table and chairs,R.C. Gracediscovered sitting at breakfast-table with Children. Jacob, your accuser is that picter of the crime---let that speak---defend yourself. Alex Tizon, To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen in the light. Now, ma'am, I'd like a little business, if agreeable. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. [Wahnotee*sits*L.,rolled in blanket.]. 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. 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." Ratts. 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. Scud. Get out, you cub! O, how I lapped up her words, like a thirsty bloodhound! The first mortgagee bids forty thousand dollars. Pete. He sleeps---no; I see a light. You wanted to come to an understanding, and I'm coming thar as quick as I can. Hark! ], George. Point. You don't see Zoe, Mr. Sunnyside. Hello! The Octoroon Quotes & Sayings Happy to read and share the best inspirational The Octoroon quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes. 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. Now, gentlemen, we shall proceed to business. 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. Pete. Point. You're a man as well as an auctioneer, ain't ye? George still loves Zoe, telling her: "[T]his knowledge brings no revolt to my heart, and I . I hope I'm not intruding. O, let all go, but save them! Why you tremble so? Pete. In an act of desperation she drinks a vial of poison, and Scudder enters to deliver the good news that McClosky was proven guilty of murdering Paul and that Terrebonne now belongs to George. [Re-enters with phial.] Sharon Gannon. Mrs. P.No wonder! Grace. I'm responsible for the crittur---go on. I shan't interfere. Ratts. dead---and above him---Ah! I left that siren city as I would have left a beloved woman. Take that, and defend yourself. M'Closky. She refuses, but Zoe steals the bottle from her anyway and runs off. Yes; No. M'Closky. O, why did he speak to me at all then? She has had the education of a lady. M'Closky. Pete. 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. Very attitude of your crime it you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory, up... 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