The world, Zoe, the free struggle of minds and hands, if before me; the education bestowed on me by my dear uncle is a noble heritage which no sheriff can seize; with that I can build up a fortune, spread a roof over the heads I love, and place before them the food I have earned; I will work---. I love one who is here, and he loves me---George. Just one month ago I quitted Paris. I bid seven thousand, which is the last dollar this family possesses. Am I late? Point. Try him, then---try him on the spot of his crime. Zoe. Nothing; but you must learn what I thought you already knew. We've had talk enough; now for proof. I want you to buy Terrebonne. [L.] Let the old darkey alone---eight hundred for that boy. 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. [Advances.] We are catching fire forward; quick, set free from the shore. Mrs. P.Yes; the firm has recovered itself, and I received a notice two months ago that some settlement might be anticipated. Grace. Quotations by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, American Playwright, Born December 29, 1984. M'Closky. Dora. have I fixed ye? Where's that man from Mobile that wanted to give one hundred and eighty thousand? Only 10 percent engaged in combat; the American elephant, pursuing the Vietnamese grasshopper, was extraordinarily heavy with logistical support. She refuses, but Zoe steals the bottle from her anyway and runs off. Eleven hundred---going---going---sold! Why not! Alas! Farewell, Dora. Pete. George. *Enter*Wahnotee,R.;they are all about to rush on him. It carried that easy on mortgage. [*Takes Indian's tomahawk and steals to*Paul. Squire Sunnyside is going to sell this at fifty thousand advance to-morrow.---[Looks round.] Look at 'em, Jacob, for they are honest water from the well of truth. 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. Sunnyside, Pointdexter, Jackson, Peyton; here it is---the Liverpool post-mark, sure enough!---[Opens letter---reads.] O! [Aside.] Search him, we may find more evidence. good, good nurse: you will, you will. The devil I am! How can you ask that vulgar ruffian to your table? Brightness will return amongst you. Adam had a job, a place to live, and food that he could provide for his woman. she would revolt from it, as all but you would; and if I consented to hear the cries of my heart, if I did not crush out my infant love, what would she say to the poor girl on whom she had bestowed so much? O, dear Zoe, is he in love with anybody? Dat's what her soul's gwine to do. Enjoy reading and share 1 famous quotes about The Octoroonwith everyone. Dido. Terrebonne is yours. [R.] Then why don't you buy it yourself, Colonel? Jackson. top till I get enough of you in one place! Ugh! Look here, the boy knows and likes me, Judge; let him come my way? Sunnyside, how good you are; so like my poor Peyton. Scud. I can't introduce any darned improvement there. here's the other one; she's a little too thoroughbred---too much of the greyhound; but the heart's there, I believe. Zoe, you are young; your mirror must have told you that you are beautiful. Fifty against one! Stop! twit him on his silence and abstraction---I'm sure it's plain enough, for he has not spoken two words to me all the day; then joke round the subject, and at last speak out. George. Ratts. Ratts. [L.] Yelping hound---take that. I don't know; she may as well hear the hull of it. ], [Gets in canoe and rows off,L.---Wahnotee*paddles canoe on,*R.---gets out and finds trail---paddles off after him,L.]. ---Cane-brake Bayou.---Bank,C.---Triangle Fire,R. C.---Canoe,C.---M'Closky*discovered asleep. How the flames crack. Judge, my friend. You're a man as well as an auctioneer, ain't ye? Zoe. [Fire seen,R.]. Dear George, you now see what a miserable thing I am. M'Closky. You blow, Mas'r Scudder, when I tole you; dere's a man from Noo Aleens just arriv' at de house, and he's stuck up two papers on de gates; "For sale---dis yer property," and a heap of oder tings---and he seen missus, and arter he shown some papers she burst out crying---I yelled; den de corious of little niggers dey set up, den de hull plantation children---de live stock reared up and created a purpiration of lamentation as did de ole heart good to har. 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. yes, plenty of 'em; bill of costs; account with Citizens' Bank---what's this? I see it in your face. You'se a dead man, Mas'r Clusky---you got to b'lieve dat. How long before we start, captain? Now, it ain't no use trying to get mad, Mas'r Scudder. Pete. D'ye hear it---nearer---nearer---ah! Race or not, it's a story about . I don't think you capable of anything else than---. Here, stay! O! You don't expect to recover any of this old debt, do you? Paul. Zoe, the more I see of George Peyton the better I like him; but he is too modest---that is a very impertinent virtue in a man. O, here he is. Mrs. P.So, Pete, you are spoiling those children as usual! Excuse me ladies. I left my loves and my creditors equally inconsolable. 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. No other cause to hate---to envy me---to be jealous of me---eh? [They get on table.]. Sunny. Zoe. Pete. drop dat banana! Scud. Pete. Pete. McClosky intercepts a young slave boy, Paul, who is bringing a mailbag to the house which contains a letter from one of Judge Peyton's old debtors. Thank'ye. Where is he? [Laughing.] When the ship's abroad on the ocean, when the army is before the enemy where in thunder's the law? *], [Light fires.---Draw flats and discoverPaul'sgrave.---M'Closky*dead on top of it.---Wahnoteestanding triumphantly over him.*]. 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. 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. Share with your friends. M'Closky. Silence in the court; stand back, let the gentlemen of the jury retire, consult, and return their verdict. "Ma'am," says I, "the apparatus can't mistake." No; a weakness, that's all---a little water. Scud. Now's your time.---[Aloud.] Gain full access to show guides, character breakdowns, auditions, monologues and more! M'Closky. Dora. MINNIE played by an African-American actress, a black actress, or an actress of color. Didn't I? Yes, sir; they were the free papers of the girl Zoe; but they were in my husband's secretary. They are gone!---[*Glancing at*George.] M'Closky. Look there, jurymen. De time he gone just 'bout enough to cook dat dish plate. It's a good drink to see her come into the cotton fields---the niggers get fresh on the sight of her. I'd be darned glad if somebody would tear my past life away from me. What was this here Scudder? Paul! That's just what you must do, and do it at once, or it will be too late. He said I want a nigger. Evidence! George. Scud. Boucicault The Octoroon Quotes & Sayings. [Zoe sings without,L.]. Ratts. Mrs. P.I expect an important letter from Liverpool; away with you, Paul; bring the mail-bags here. Well, near on five hundred dollars. 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. I arrived just too late, he had grabbed the prize as I came up. Lift me; so---[George*raises her head*]---let me look at you, that your face may be the last I see of this world. [Returning with rifle.] Dora. I lost them in the cedar swamp---again they haunted my path down the bayou, moving as I moved, resting when I rested---hush! He is said to have "combined sentiment, wit and local colour with sensational and spectacular endings" (Nova). No, sir; you have omitted the Octoroon girl, Zoe. What, on Terrebonne? 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. Mrs. P.No wonder! EnterScudder, George, Ratts, Caillou, Pete, Grace, Minnie,and all theNegroes. Scud. I must be going---it is late. Hold on! What? Zoe, they shall not take you from us while I live. war's de crowd gone? Zoe. George. I'll put the naughty parts in French. Wahnotee. [Georgepours contents of phial in glass. All. Sunny. [Minnie runs off.] Dora. I won't strike him, even with words. Paul. Zoe. Come, Paul, are you ready? Zoe, listen to me, then. I'll have her, if it costs me my life! Something forcing its way through the undergrowth---it comes this way---it's either a bear or a runaway nigger. M'Closky. Pete. 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. Be the first to contribute! No, [looks off,R.] 'tis Pete and the servants---they come this way. Zoe. That's a challenge to begin a description of my feminine adventures. Lafouche. Have I slept upon the benefits I received, and never saw, never felt, never knew that I was forgetful and ungrateful? O, Mr. Scudder! No, sar; nigger nebber cut stick on Terrebonne; dat boy's dead, sure. Zoe (an Octoroon Girl, free, the Natural Child of the late Judge by a Quadroon Slave) Mrs. J. H. Allen. Pete. 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