Zoe. Squire Sunnyside is going to sell this at fifty thousand advance to-morrow.---[Looks round.] burn! What's dat? [Sits,R. C.]. Dora. I'm broke, Solon---I can't stop the Judge. 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. He don't understand; he speaks a mash-up of Indian and Mexican. How are we sure the boy is dead at all? The judge didn't understand accounts---the overseer did. Ratts. Were they all born on this estate? Say, Mas'r Scudder, take me in dat telescope? Can you take any more? Zoe. save me! I fetch as much as any odder cook in Louisiana. Only 10 percent engaged in combat; the American elephant, pursuing the Vietnamese grasshopper, was extraordinarily heavy with logistical support. George. See also Don't b'lieve dey'll turn out niggers when dey're growed; dey'll come out sunthin else. MINNIE played by an African-American actress, a black actress, or an actress of color. And twenty thousand bid. O! Paul. That's right. M'Closky. Paul. [Conceals himself.]. 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. Pete. He confesses it; the Indian got drunk, quarreled with him, and killed him. "No. Ah! Scud. Because, Miss Sunnyside, I have not learned to lie. How can you ask that vulgar ruffian to your table? [*To*Ratts.] Yah! 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. How can she then ask her father to free me? 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. Zoe, listen to me, then. I'll see to that. The last word, an important colloquialism, was misread by the typesetter of the play. Scud. [A pause.] [L.] Let the old darkey alone---eight hundred for that boy. Five hundred bid---it's a good price. Ah! 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. Now, gentlemen, I'm proud to submit to you the finest lot of field hands and house servants that was ever offered for competition; they speak for themselves, and do credit to their owners.---[Reads.] Yes, sir; they were the free papers of the girl Zoe; but they were in my husband's secretary. You're trembling so, you'll fall down directly. Providence has chosen your executioner. Boucicaults The Octoroon famous quotes & sayings: Ivan Glasenberg: We work. Extremely popular, the play was kept running continuously for years by seven road companies. O, law, sir, dat debil Closky, he tore hisself from de gen'lam, knock me down, take my light, and trows it on de turpentine barrels, and de shed's all afire! EnterScudder, George, Ratts, Caillou, Pete, Grace, Minnie,and all theNegroes. When I travelled round with this machine, the homely folks used to sing out, "Hillo, mister, this ain't like me!" He loves me---what of that? But how pale she looks, and she trembles so. Hole yer tongues. He calls me Omenee, the Pigeon, and Miss Zoe is Ninemoosha, the Sweetheart. Zoe. [Aside to Sunnyside.] Scud. Dido. Scud. George. Impossible; you have seen no one; whom can you mean? What's here? The first mortgagee bids forty thousand dollars. Poor little Paul---poor little nigger! 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. Dora. [L.] Mr. George, I'm going to say somethin' that has been chokin' me for some time. Dora. You know you can't be jealous of a poor creature like me. Job had none of them critters on his plantation, else he'd never ha' stood through so many chapters. Zoe. You want to hurt yourself. [Brings hammer down.] [Draws pistol---M'Closky*rushes on and falls atScudder'sfeet.*]. I lost them in the cedar swamp---again they haunted my path down the bayou, moving as I moved, resting when I rested---hush! I'm afraid to die; yet I am more afraid to live. 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." and my master---O! [Puts his head under the darkening apron.] What's de use of your takin' it kind, and comfortin' de missus heart, if Minnie dere, and Louise, and Marie, and Julie is to spile it? Hold on now, Jacob; we've got to figure on that---let us look straight at the thing. Zoe. The Octoroon (1912) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. Now, take care what you do. George still loves Zoe, telling her: "[T]his knowledge brings no revolt to my heart, and I . Dora. Scud. but the deed that freed you was not lawful. Just turn your face a leetle this way---fix your---let's see---look here. 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. Zoe. [*With-draws slide, turns and sees*Paul.] I'm responsible for the crittur---go on. Mrs. Pey. Now, ma'am, I'd like a little business, if agreeable. Scud. What you's gwine to do, missey? Guess it kill a dozen---nebber try. I bid seven thousand, which is the last dollar this family possesses. [Draws knife.] I---my mother was---no, no---not her! He will love you---he must. M'Closky. I have it. They don't seem to be scared by the threat. Go outside, there; listen to what you hear, then go down to the quarters and tell the boys, for I can't do it. I love one who is here, and he loves me---George. In cash? Enjoy reading and share 14 famous quotes about Boucicaults The Octoroon with everyone. In comparison, a quadroon would have one quarter African ancestry and a mulatto for the most part has historically implied half African ancestry. Now, what have you done to show them the distinction? Scud. Bless his dear old handwriting, it's all I ever saw of him. No, ma'am, I worked like an ass---an honest one, and that's all. Ain't that a cure for old age; it kinder lifts the heart up, don't it? Paul. Jackson. Well, what d'ye say, Lafouche---d'ye smile? faded---is it not? Dido. That's just what you must do, and do it at once, or it will be too late. the rat's out. I believe Mr. M'Closky has a bill of sale on them. Zoe. The word Octoroon signifies "one-eighth blood" or the child of a Quadroon by a white. Ah! 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. He has a strange way of showing it. I'm afraid they must be right; I can't understand a word of all this. Aunt, when he died, two years ago, I read over those letters of his, and if I didn't cry like a baby---. Ratts. She is one-eighth black, the daughter of a "quadroon" slave woman, and is very. O, that's it, is it? [Doraattempts to take it.] Mrs. P.Yes; the firm has recovered itself, and I received a notice two months ago that some settlement might be anticipated. Salem's looking a kinder hollowed out. Laws, mussey! Point. come home---there are strangers in the house. [Solon goes down and stands behind Ratts.] Paul! Point. Ratts. O, dear, has he suddenly come to his senses? Not a picayune. Paul. If you bid me do so I will obey you---. But the creditors will not claim the gal? [Astonished.] here's the other one; she's a little too thoroughbred---too much of the greyhound; but the heart's there, I believe. [Sits. [*To*Zoe.] No, I hesitated because an attachment I had formed before I had the pleasure of seeing you had not altogether died out. Jacob M'Closky, you shan't have that girl. Zoe realizes that she is in love with him too, but they cannot marry, as she is an Octoroon, and, under 19th century laws, their marriage was legally prohibited. tink anybody wants you to cry? Paul. Zoe. 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. Go, Minnie, tell Pete; run! [R. C.] That's my son---buy him, Mas'r Ratts; he's sure to sarve you well. Pete. It's going up dar, whar dere's no line atween folks. Improvements---anything, from a stay-lace to a fire-engine. if I had you one by one, alone in the swamp, I'd rip ye all. Their presence keeps alive the reproach against me that I ruined them; yet, if this money should come. I dare say, now, that in Europe you have never met any lady more beautiful in person, or more polished in manners, than that girl. Sharon Gannon. Pete. One thousand bid. Wahnotee. De time he gone just 'bout enough to cook dat dish plate. The eye of the Eternal was on you---the blessed sun in heaven, that, looking down, struck upon this plate the image of the deed. I feel so big with joy, creation ain't wide enough to hold me. They owed him over fifty thousand dollars. Dora. Come, Judge, pick up. Pete, as you came here, did you pass Paul and the Indian with the letter-bags? You have been tried---honestly tried and convicted. must I learn from these poor wretches how much I owed, how I ought to pay the debt? "No, ma'am, the truth seldom is.". 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---. now mind. Franco Harris, You have to let it go. I don't know when my time on earth will be up; but I DO know that today, I am one day closer. If that old nigger ain't asleep, I'm blamed. Stop, Zoe; come here! No; like a sugar cane; so dry outside, one would never think there was so much sweetness within. [Shouts heard,R.]. Scud. Zoe. *EnterThibodeauxand*Sunnyside,R.U.E. Thibo. A draft for eighty-five thousand dollars, and credit on Palisse and Co., of New Orleans, for the balance. M'Closky. O! Pete. *] What a good creature she is. 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