I'll bear it. Scud. 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. Be the first to contribute! Where's that man from Mobile that wanted to give one hundred and eighty thousand? 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. Pete. Zoe. Mrs. P.Why, George, I never suspected this! Go on, Colonel. He loves Zoe, and has found out that she loves him. come home---there are strangers in the house. This business goes agin me, Ratts---'tain't right. Zoe!---she faints! [Sits,R. C.]. M'Closky. Were they all born on this estate? Ah. Sunny. Dido. See, I'm calm. [Reads.] I mean that before you could draw that bowie-knife, you wear down your back, I'd cut you into shingles. Your birth---I know it. It wants an hour yet to daylight---here is Pete's hut---[Knocks.] My love? And I remained here to induce you to offer that heart to Dora! Only 10 percent engaged in combat; the American elephant, pursuing the Vietnamese grasshopper, was extraordinarily heavy with logistical support. clar out! Essay Topics. now mind. The buyers gather to take away the slaves they have purchased on a steamship. I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. I daren't move fear to spile myself. What, sar! How to End "The Octoroon", John A. Degen, Learn how and when to remove this template message, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Octoroon&oldid=1114317331, This page was last edited on 5 October 2022, at 22:08. 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. What was this here Scudder? All. Scud. George. [Throws mail bags down and sits on them,L. C.] Pret, now den go. And you killed him? It is in the hearts of brave men, who can tell right from wrong, and from whom justice can't be bought. [Raising his voice.] Listen to me. The word octoroon signifies a person of one-eighth African ancestry. Eight hundred agin, then---I'll go it. Point. The apparatus can't mistake. [George*tries to regain his gun;Wahnoteerefuses to give it up;Paul,quietly takes it from him and remonstrates with him.*]. She's won this race agin the white, anyhow; it's too late now to start her pedigree. O, forgive him and me! I'll murder this yer crowd, [*He chases*Childrenabout; they leap over railing at back. Zoe. I'm responsible for the crittur---go on. I'm on you like a painter, and when I'm drawed out I'm pizin. Ain't he! I am his love---he loves an Octoroon. [Draws pistol---M'Closky*rushes on and falls atScudder'sfeet.*]. Zoe. 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. You say the proceeds of the sale will not cover his debts. Scud. There are no witnesses but a rum bottle and an old machine. M'Closky. We're ready; the jury's impanelled---go ahead---who'll be accuser? 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. And dar's de 'paratus---O, gosh, if I could take a likeness ob dis child! [Returning with rifle.] Hush! Mrs. P.She need not keep us waiting breakfast, though. Hold on now! Liverpool post mark. The auctioneer arrives, along with prospective buyers, McClosky among them. I shall do so if you weep. Scud. I could not do it. M'Closky. "The free papers of my daughter, Zoe, registered February 4th, 1841." I shan't interfere. I'd give half the balance of my life to wipe out my part of the work. Beat that any of ye. Point. George. Point. Ya! Never mind. [Examines paper.]. M'Closky. Mrs. P.Wahnotee, will you go back to your people? Hi! Peyton.]. I'm afraid they must be right; I can't understand a word of all this. Now, ma'am, I'd like a little business, if agreeable. Do you know what the niggers round here call that sight? Come, Judge, pick up. I will be thirty years old again in thirty seconds. "No. [Draws knife.] he tinks it's a gun. Jacobs-Jenkins reframes Boucicault's play using its original characters and plot, speaking much of Boucicault's dialogue, and critiques its portrayal of race using Brechtian devices. No, dear. [Knocks.] O! Good day, ma'am. You can protect me from that man---do let me die without pain. [Looking at watch.] And our mother, she who from infancy treated me with such fondness, she who, as you said, had most reason to spurn me, can she forget what I am? If Omenee remain, Wahnotee will die in Terrebonne. 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. He's too fond of thieving and whiskey. Save me---save me! Point. And, strangers, ain't we forgetting there's a lady present. Zoe. Go outside, there; listen to what you hear, then go down to the quarters and tell the boys, for I can't do it. [Laughs.]. Peyton.] Born here---dem darkies? [Throws down apron.] And twenty thousand bid. [R. C.] Pardon me, madam, but do you know these papers? See also Trivia | Goofs | Crazy Credits | Alternate Versions | Connections | Soundtracks Did You Know? [Outside,R.U.E.] Dis way---dis way. What say ye? Ratts. Yes, missus. M'Closky. Scud. Mr. Scudder, I've listened to a great many of your insinuations, and now I'd like to come to an understanding what they mean. Lafouche. [Goes up.]. For ten years his letters came every quarter-day, with a remittance and a word of advice in his formal cavalier style; and then a joke in the postscript, that upset the dignity of the foregoing. Alas! Scud. The Judge is a little deaf. Because, Miss Sunnyside, I have not learned to lie. Stop! Pete, you old turkey-buzzard, saddle my mare. Go, Minnie, tell Pete; run! [Sees tomahawk in Wahnotee's belt---draws it out and examines it.] Scad. Ratts. Well, you wrong me. Wal, as it consarns you, perhaps you better had. George, you know not what you say. Top, you varmin! "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). If she could not accept me, who could? [Zoe*helps her. Heaven has denied me children; so all the strings of my heart have grown around and amongst them, like the fibres and roots of an old tree in its native earth. I suppose I shall go before long, and I wished to visit all the places, once again, to see the poor people. I shall never understand how to wound the feelings of any lady; and, if that is the custom here, I shall never acquire it. Say what you know---not what you heard. Zoe, you are young; your mirror must have told you that you are beautiful. No---no. Letters! I'll sweep these Peytons from this section of the country. 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. I only come back to find Wahnotee; whar is dat ign'ant Ingiun? All there is there would kill one, wouldn't it? Whoever said so lied. Be calm---darn the things; the proceeds of this sale won't cover the debts of the estate. Lafouche. Point. M'Closky. Hold your tongue---it must. Solon. M'Closky. ExitSolon,R.U.E.] Dem little niggers is a judgment upon dis generation. Yah! Uh---uh, let's have a peep. George. 1, Solon, a guess boy, and good waiter.". Well, that's all right; but as he can't marry her, and as Miss Dora would jump at him---. Daisaku Ikeda Culture is like the current of the ocean. M'Closky. Dora. McClosky has proved that Judge Peyton did not succeed in legally freeing her, as he had meant to do. Tullian Tchividjian. Do you think they would live here on such terms? George. M'Closky. The Injiun means that he buried him there! His love for me will pass away---it shall. George. [Fire seen,R.]. Well, he cut that for the photographing line. The Octoroon's Sacrifice (1912) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. "No," say Mas'r George, "I'd rather sell myself fuss; but dey shan't suffer, nohow,---I see 'em dam fuss.". Why, Dora, what's the matter? Mrs. Pey. 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. Cut, cut the rope---I choke---choke!---Ah! You told me it produced a long, long sleep. Zoe. I dare say you left at least a dozen beloved women there, at the same time. Yes, den a glass ob fire-water; now den. Ay, ay! The sun is rising. *EnterPaul,wrestling with*Wahnotee,R.3. M'Closky. Stop! George, dear George, do you love me? M'Closky. [ExitMrs. PeytonandSunnysideto house. [Takes out his knife. Scud. Scud. Come, Miss Dora, let me offer you my arm. An extremely beautiful young slave girl, who is treated like a member of the family, Zoe is kind, generous, and adored by every man who lays eyes on her. this infernal letter would have saved all. George. I see my little Nimrod yonder, with his Indian companion. that he isn't to go on fooling in his slow---. Look there. New York, NY, Accessibility Statement Terms Privacy |StageAgent 2020. I don't know; she may as well hear the hull of it. Pete. He's yours, Captain Ratts, Magnolia steamer. Don't be a fool; they'd kill you, and then take her, just as soon as---stop; Old Sunnyside, he'll buy her! As they exit,M'Closkyrises from behind rock,R.,*and looks after them. Excuse me; one of the principal mortgagees has made the demand. M'Closky. They do not notice Zoe.---[Aloud.] Let me proceed by illustration. ], [Gets in canoe and rows off,L.---Wahnotee*paddles canoe on,*R.---gets out and finds trail---paddles off after him,L.]. I will! All hands aboard there---cut the starn ropes---give her headway! Evidence! I'm going to straighten this account clear out. [Aside to Sunnyside.] Lynch him! Ah! May Heaven bless him for the thought, bless him for the happiness he spread around my life. Look there, jurymen. [Kicks pail from underPete,*and lets him down.*]. 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