Now, it ain't no use trying to get mad, Mas'r Scudder. I'm waiting on your fifty thousand bid. [Wahnotee*raises apron and runs off,*L.U.E.Paul*sits for his picture---M'Closkyappears from*R.U.E.]. Do you know what that is? Ah! Twelve thousand. *], [Light fires.---Draw flats and discoverPaul'sgrave.---M'Closky*dead on top of it.---Wahnoteestanding triumphantly over him.*]. the bags are mine---now for it!---[Opens mail-bags.] Dora. Search him, we may find more evidence. Mrs. P.My dear George, you are left in your uncle's will heir to this estate. Be calm---darn the things; the proceeds of this sale won't cover the debts of the estate. Go it, if you're a mind to. Now, ma'am, I'd like a little business, if agreeable. Judge, my friend. 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. I always said you were the darndest thief that ever escaped a white jail to misrepresent the North to the South. how sad she looks now she has no resource. Yes, den a glass ob fire-water; now den. if you cannot be mine, O, let me not blush when I think of you. "The free papers of my daughter, Zoe, registered February 4th, 1841." 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. Paul. ", Zoe. Lafouche. I wish to speak to you. I say, Zoe, do you hear that? D'ye feel it? O, none for me; I never eat. Even a letter, promising something---such is the feeling round amongst the planters. Dido. M'Closky. I will, quicker than lightning. M'Closky. Pete. EnterZoe,L.U.E.,very pale, and stands on table.---M'Closkyhitherto has taken no interest in the sale, now turns his chair. Zoe. See also Ha, ha! For the first time, twenty-five thousand---last time! 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. You told me it produced a long, long sleep. Now it's cooking, laws mussey, I feel it all inside, as if it was at a lottery. What's this, eh? Well, he has the oddest way of making love. You're a man as well as an auctioneer, ain't ye? I'm responsible for the crittur---go on. [2] Among antebellum melodramas, it was considered second in popularity only to Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852).[3]. M'Closky overhears their conversation, but still vows he'll "have her if it costs [him] [his] life" (44). They do not notice Zoe.---[Aloud.] Hold your tongue---it must. Go outside, there; listen to what you hear, then go down to the quarters and tell the boys, for I can't do it. If I was to try, I'd bust. I saw a small bottle of cologne and asked if it was for sale. Come, form a court then, choose a jury---we'll fix this varmin. I can never sleep now without dreaming. [L.] Let the old darkey alone---eight hundred for that boy. Good morning, Mr. Sunnyside; Miss Dora, your servant. [C.] My dear aunt, why do you not move from this painful scene? Zoe, bring here the judge's old desk; it is in the library. He is sitting on on my prize! Now, gentlemen, we shall proceed to business. Make bacon of me, you young whelp. Scud. It's surely worth the love that dictated it; here are the papers and accounts. 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. Uh---uh, let's have a peep. Gosh, wouldn't I like to hab myself took! Dat's de laziest nigger on dis yere property. Ya! George. [Advances.] M'Closky. Some of those sirens of Paris, I presume, [Pause.] Zoe. George, do you see that hand you hold? Well, that's all right; but as he can't marry her, and as Miss Dora would jump at him---. Irish - Dramatist December 26, 1822 - September 18, 1890. What in thunder should I do with you and those devils on board my boat? My love! 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. Do you think they would live here on such terms? if dey aint all lighted, like coons, on dat snake fence, just out of shot. Ratts. Now, den, if Grace dere wid her chil'n were all sold, she'll begin screechin' like a cat. Scud. you're looking well. But now that vagrant love is---eh? No, dear. [*Throws bowie-knife to*M'Closky.] Hush! Was dat?---a cry out dar in de swamp---dar agin! The Octoroon is appropriately considered a sensation drama, though it received the label retrospectively. have I fixed ye? What's the matter, Ratts? Mrs. P.Read, George. [R. C.] That's my son---buy him, Mas'r Ratts; he's sure to sarve you well. McClosky, however, outbids her for Zoe; George is restrained from attacking him by his friends. I'm 'most afraid to take Wahnotee to the shed, there's rum there. I won't hear a word! After various slaves are auctioned off, George and the buyers are shocked to see Zoe up on the stand. You wanted to come to an understanding, and I'm coming thar as quick as I can. Could you see the roots of my hair you would see the same dark, fatal mark. The tragic ending was used for American audiences, to avoid portraying a mixed marriage.[4]. the apparatus can't lie. Some of you niggers run and hole de hosses; and take dis, Dido. Top Boucicault The Octoroon Quotes. ---Cane-brake Bayou.---Bank,C.---Triangle Fire,R. C.---Canoe,C.---M'Closky*discovered asleep. Scud. 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. Darn me, if I couldn't raise thirty thousand on the envelope alone, and ten thousand more on the post-mark. If it was the ghost of that murdered boy haunting me! [GoesR.,*and looks atWahnotee,L.,through the camera;Wahnoteesprings back with an expression of alarm.*]. Pete. 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. The child---'tis he! 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. To be alive is to be breathing. [They approach again.]. And I remained here to induce you to offer that heart to Dora! M'Closky hates Scudder in return, especially because they both love Zoe, Mr. Peyton's "octoroon" daughter, Zoe. hark! [*Exit*Dora,L.U.E.] What on earth does that child mean or want? Scud. if I had you one by one, alone in the swamp, I'd rip ye all. Jodie Sweetin, Come down and eat chicken with me beautiful. Pete, as you came here, did you pass Paul and the Indian with the letter-bags? [Wakes.] Poor Injiun lub our little Paul. Well, he cut that for the photographing line. Hold on a bit. No; like a sugar cane; so dry outside, one would never think there was so much sweetness within. O, no; Mas'r Scudder, don't leave Mas'r Closky like dat---don't, sa---'tain't what good Christian should do. Pete. Scud. *EnterPete, Dido, Solon, Minnie,and*Grace. Paul. [*Aside to*Mrs. [Slowly lowering his whip,] Darn you, red skin, I'll pay you off some day, both of ye. I left it last night all safe. Mrs. P.No, George; say you wept like a man. What, you won't, won't ye? Wahnote*swims on---finds trail---follows him. What you's gwine to do, missey? Squire Sunnyside is going to sell this at fifty thousand advance to-morrow.---[Looks round.] if this is so, she's mine! Dora. M'Closky. Listen to me. George offers to take her to a different country, but Zoe insists that she stay to help Terrebonne; Scudder then appears and suggests that George marry Dora. No, it ain't; because, just then, what does the judge do, but hire another overseer---a Yankee---a Yankee named Salem Scudder. [*To*Zoe.] You say the proceeds of the sale will not cover his debts. You'se a dead man, Mas'r Clusky---you got to b'lieve dat. Author: Mike Watt. Ratts. Zoe. Point. Scud. Paul's best friend, the Indian Wahnotee, discovers Paul's body; he can speak only poor English, however, and is unable to communicate the tragedy to anyone else. Pete. Weenee Paul. The more bidders, the better for you. who has been teasing you? [Knocks.] DORA played by a white actress or an actress who can pass as white. Have I slept upon the benefits I received, and never saw, never felt, never knew that I was forgetful and ungrateful? No, Pete; no, I won't. [Dora*gets water.] Go, Minnie, tell Pete; run! Take your hand down---take it down. Here, stay! Mrs. P.But it may be years yet before it will be paid off, if ever. Dat's me---yer, I'm comin'---stand around dar. I must see you no more. 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. That's a challenge to begin a description of my feminine adventures. "No. this infernal letter would have saved all. George, leave me! I bid seven thousand, which is the last dollar this family possesses. top till I get enough of you in one place! M'Closky. He sleeps---no; I see a light. Sunny. Yes---me and Co.---we done it; but, as you were senior partner in the concern, I reckon you got the big lick. Scud. Scud. Ratts. Pete. Mrs. Pey. Thank ye; thank ye. I only come back to find Wahnotee; whar is dat ign'ant Ingiun? I'm gwine! Dere's a dish of pen-pans---jess taste, Mas'r George---and here's fried bananas; smell 'em, do, sa glosh. Scud. Now's your time.---[Aloud.] [Puts his head under the darkening apron.] George is courted by the rich Southern belle heiress Dora Sunnyside, but he finds himself falling in love with Zoe, the daughter of his uncle through one of the slaves. he is here. Pete. If he would only propose to marry me I would accept him, but he don't know that, and he will go on fooling, in his slow European way, until it is too late. Am I late? You seem already familiar with the names of every spot on the estate. Ya! Be the first to contribute! He gone down to de landing last night wid Mas'r Scudder; not come back since---kint make it out. Seeking 2 Actor Team for Spring Zoe. M'Closky. Despite the happiness Zoe stands dying and the play ends with her death on the sitting-room couch and George kneeling beside her. [Pete holds lantern up.] He plans to buy her and make her his mistress. Scud. Sunny. I---my mother was---no, no---not her! I'll see to that. Paul. No; but you, aunty, you are wise---you know every plant, don't you, and what it is good for? Scud. Dora. Cum yer now---stand round, cause I've got to talk to you darkies---keep dem chil'n quiet---don't make no noise, de missus up dar har us. 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. Buy me, Mas'r Ratts, do buy me, sar? Aunt, I will take my rifle down to the Atchafalaya. M'Closky. Alas! Dora. The Octoroon was a controversial play on both sides of the slavery debate when it debuted, as both abolitionists and pro-slavery advocates believed the play took the other camp's side. Salem Scudder, a kind Yankee, was Judge Peyton's business partner; though he wishes he could save Terrebonne, he has no money. stan' round thar! Zoe. [Knocks.] Well, is he not thus afflicted now? Pete. Why, judge, wasn't you lawyer enough to know that while a judgment stood against you it was a lien on your slaves? [Scudder*takes out watch.*]. If even Asian women saw the men of their own blood as less than other men, what was the use in arguing otherwise? Zoe. Scud. Dora, I once made you weep; those were the only tears I caused any body. [Shows plate. Hello! 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.". Dora. Point. Hush! Paul has promised me a bear and a deer or two. I'll see you round the estate. 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. George. I want Pete here a minute. Scene.---The Wharf, The Steamer "Magnolia" alongside,L.;a bluff rock,R.U.E. Ratts*discovered, superintending the loading of ship. [*Hands papers to*Mrs. It's no use you putting on airs; I ain't gwine to sit up wid you all night and you drunk. Yes, missus. Pete. I'll murder this yer crowd, [*He chases*Childrenabout; they leap over railing at back. . Grace. 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.*. Yes, for you, for me, for dem little ones, dem folks cried. 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