[L.] Let the old darkey alone---eight hundred for that boy. Hugh vieu. The Octoroon Act II Summary & Analysis. We'll hire out our slaves, and live on their wages. 'Cos I's skeered to try! Debbel's in de pail! I think so; shall I ask him that too? Dido. [R.U.E.] I was raised on dis yar plantation---neber see no door in it---always open, sar, for stranger to walk in. Ask the color in your face; d'ye think I can't read you, like a book? Thib. George. Gen'l'men, my colored frens and ladies, dar's mighty bad news gone round. Daisaku Ikeda Culture is like the current of the ocean. What? When you have done joking, gentlemen, you'll say one hundred and twenty thousand. den run to dat pine tree up dar [points,L.U.E.] and back agin, and den pull down de rag so, d'ye see? [Sighing.] Top Boucicault The Octoroon Quotes. *], [Light fires.---Draw flats and discoverPaul'sgrave.---M'Closky*dead on top of it.---Wahnoteestanding triumphantly over him.*]. No other cause to hate---to envy me---to be jealous of me---eh? I shall endeavor not to be jealous of the past; perhaps I have no right to be. Scud. I'll have her, if it costs me my life! And we all [Conceals himself.]. Jacob M'Closky, 'twas you murdered that boy! George. And so you really kept those foolish letters? And we all got rich from it, so, you know, there's a benefit from it. This is folly, Dora. Zoe. *] What a good creature she is. Ratts. Work! 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. M'Closky. I'm waiting on your fifty thousand bid. Yes, sir; they were the free papers of the girl Zoe; but they were in my husband's secretary. George. Pete, speak to the red-skin. [Pete holds lantern up.] What was her name? [Scudder*takes out watch.*]. You heard him say it was hopeless. Zoe. Mrs. P.Zoe, dear, I'm glad to see you more calm this morning. You're trembling so, you'll fall down directly. [] 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) The White Slave; or, the Octoroon (1913) - Quotes - IMDb Edit The White Slave; or, the Octoroon (1913) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. George. George. 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. Pete. Scud. Boucicault The Octoroon Quotes & Sayings. [Going.]. 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. Scud. Yes, we do, ma'am; it's in a darned bad condition. Closky tue Paul---kill de child with your tomahawk dar; 'twasn't you, no---ole Pete allus say so. Could you see the roots of my hair you would see the same dark, fatal mark. Zoe. Mrs. P.And you hesitated from motives of delicacy? I won't go on; that man's down. Pete. M'Closky. Go, Minnie, tell Pete; run! You are right, sir; though I shrank from expressing that opinion in her presence, so bluntly. Ratts. I'm writing about America's relationship to its own history. That judgment still exists; under it and others this estate is sold to-day. If you would pardon the abruptness of the question, I would ask you, Do you think the sincere devotion of my life to make yours happy would succeed? [Returning with rifle.] M'Closky. Scud. [M'Closky*lowers his hand. Well, near on five hundred dollars. [Examines the ground.] That's his programme---here's a pocket-book. I believe Mr. M'Closky has a bill of sale on them. Come, form a court then, choose a jury---we'll fix this varmin. Salem Scudder, a kind Yankee, was Judge Peyton's business partner; though he wishes he could save Terrebonne, he has no money. George. Point. You will not forget poor Zoe! 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! Don't b'lieve dey'll turn out niggers when dey're growed; dey'll come out sunthin else. Come, Paul, are you ready? Zoe. What! Ten years ago the judge took as overseer a bit of Connecticut hardware called M'Closky. Scud. George. Eleven hundred---going---going---sold! He calls me Omenee, the Pigeon, and Miss Zoe is Ninemoosha, the Sweetheart. you're looking well. I think we may begin business. Point. Lafouche. Scud. [R.] Well, what's the use of argument whar guilt sticks out so plain; the boy and Injiun were alone when last seen. Those little flowers can live, but I cannot. Go it, if you're a mind to. He's yours, Captain Ratts, Magnolia steamer. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. [He is borne off in boat, struggling. ], M'Closky. Scud. It's surely worth the love that dictated it; here are the papers and accounts. Come along; she har what we say, and she's cryin' for us. M'Closky. You can protect me from that man---do let me die without pain. Say, Mas'r Scudder, take me in dat telescope? Judge, you can raise the hull on mortgage---going for half its value. Ratts. Dar, do ye hear dat, ye mis'able darkies, dem gals is worth a boat load of kinder men dem is. Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. Sunny. M'Closky. Well, ma'am, I spose there's no law agin my bidding for it. Franco Harris, You have to let it go. We can leave this country, and go far away where none can know. Whar's breakfass? Zoe. Jackson. I couldn't bear to see him put to work. O, here, do you know what annuity the old judge left you is worth to-day? I always said you were the darndest thief that ever escaped a white jail to misrepresent the North to the South. Scud. This blow has staggered me some. Why don't he return to his nation out West? Zoe. 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. "No, ma'am, the truth seldom is.". 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---. can you smile at this moment? George. Yonder is the boy---now is my time! Why you out in de swamp dis time ob night---you catch de fever sure---you is all wet. Born here! Dis way, gen'l'men; now Solon---Grace---dey's hot and tirsty---sangaree, brandy, rum. you bomn'ble fry---git out---a gen'leman can't pass for you. I want you to buy Terrebonne. Mas'r Ratts, you hard him sing about de place where de good niggers go, de last time. [Takes them.] 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. I'll bear it. Fifteen thousand. Lafouche. Sunny. [Sees tomahawk in Wahnotee's belt---draws it out and examines it.] Zoe. So it went, till one day the judge found the tap wouldn't run. Pete. Wahnotee. The Octoroon (1912) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. Synopsis. [Music. Paul. O, why did he speak to me at all then? To be alive is to be breathing. Mrs. Pey. Join StageAgent today and unlock amazing theatre resources and opportunities. What was this here Scudder? Yours, &c, James Brown." George. *] Whenever I gets into company like yours, I always start with the advantage on my side. Pete. What, Mr. Ratts, are you going to invest in swamps? George. Ah! Zoe, he's going; I want him to stay and make love to me that's what I came for to-day. you stan' dar, I see you Ta demine usti. ZOE played by an octoroon actress, a white actress, a quadroon actress, a biracial actress, a multi-racial actress, or an actress of color who can pass as an octoroon. Deborah Blake, I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. I see my little Nimrod yonder, with his Indian companion. here's Mas'r Sunnyside, and Missey Dora, jist drov up. No; the hitching line was cut with a knife. [Slowly lowering his whip,] Darn you, red skin, I'll pay you off some day, both of ye. [Points with knife off,R.] D'ye see that tree?---it's called a live oak, and is a native here; beside it grows a creeper; year after year that creeper twines its long arms round and round the tree---sucking the earth dry all about its roots---living on its life---overrunning its branches, until at last the live oak withers and dies out. Paul has promised me a bear and a deer or two. Now, I feel bad about my share in the business. O, no; Mas'r Scudder, don't leave Mas'r Closky like dat---don't, sa---'tain't what good Christian should do. I wish they could sell me! Very bad, aunty; and the heart aches worse, so they can get no rest. Zoe. Scud. Look here; I can't stand that gal! What's here? [*ExitScudderand*Mrs. Peyton,R.U.E. George. Five hundred bid---it's a good price. since you arrived! D'ye hear that, Jacob? The Octoroon: The Story of the Turpentine Forest (1909) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. how sad she looks now she has no resource. Boucicaults The Octoroon famous quotes & sayings: Ivan Glasenberg: We work. Zoe. If it was the ghost of that murdered boy haunting me! I will take the best room in the Grand Central or the Orndorff Hotel. M'Closky. I'm on you like a painter, and when I'm drawed out I'm pizin. Come on, Pete, we shan't reach the house before midday. 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Now fix yourself. Ya! Sunny. O! Pete. Why should I refer the blame to her?
Pete. O, Miss Zoe, why you ask ole Dido for dis pizen? D'ye feel it? M'Closky. M'Closky. Pete. Hold quiet, you trash o' niggers! Here we are on the selvage of civilization. Scud. Dora. What am goin' to cum ob us! We tender food to a stranger, not because he is a gentleman, but because he is hungry. Yes; I kept the letters, and squandered the money. Mrs. P.Terrebonne for sale, and you, sir, will doubtless become its purchaser. 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. I'd give half the balance of my life to wipe out my part of the work. That is the ineffaceable curse of Cain. Sunny. 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