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You seem already familiar with the names of every spot on the estate. O, golly! "But, mister, that ain't my nose." [Calling at door.] I thought none but colored people worked. Now, take care what you do. Ratts. In comparison, a quadroon would have one quarter African ancestry and a mulatto for the most part has historically implied half African ancestry. burn! [Throws mail bags down and sits on them,L. C.] Pret, now den go. No, sar; nigger nebber cut stick on Terrebonne; dat boy's dead, sure. What! Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory. [*ExitM'Closkyand*Pointdexter,R.U.E. Scud. Come, Mr. Thibodeaux, a man has a chance once in his life---here's yours. Solon. 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. Hillo, darkey, hand me a smash dar. You don't come here to take life easy. I will be thirty years old again in thirty seconds. how sad she looks now she has no resource. Enjoy the best Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Quotes at BrainyQuote. I shall endeavor not to be jealous of the past; perhaps I have no right to be. George. Scud. Zoe. Now, I feel bad about my share in the business. Judge, my friend. a slave! Pete. Zoe. Scud. Go on, Pete, you've waked up the Christian here, and the old hoss responds. New York, NY, Ages 12-17: Camp Broadway Ensemble @ Carnegie Hall 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. Stop! Dido. Coventry Patmore, if a man has no stability when you meet him, you may want to stay clear of him. Gosh, wouldn't I like to hab myself took! Why, with principal and interest this debt has been more than doubled in twenty years. Dora. Scud. Even a letter, promising something---such is the feeling round amongst the planters. See also Trivia | Goofs | Crazy Credits | Alternate Versions | Connections | Soundtracks [Pete holds lantern up.] [Makes sign thatPaulwas killed by a blow on the head.]. He has a strange way of showing it. Five hundred dollars!---[*To*Thibodeaux.] Pete, you old turkey-buzzard, saddle my mare. I don't tink you will any more, but dis here will; 'cause de family spile Dido, dey has. Do you know what I am? I'm from fair to middlin', like a bamboo cane, much the same all the year round. I the sharer of your sorrows---your wife. No! We'll hire out our slaves, and live on their wages. Dido. Why you speak so wild? If it was the ghost of that murdered boy haunting me! I say---he smoke and smoke, but nebber look out ob de fire; well knowing dem critters, I wait a long time---den he say, "Wahnotee, great chief;" den I say nothing---smoke anoder time---last, rising to go, he turn round at door, and say berry low---O, like a woman's voice, he say, "Omenee Pangeuk,"---dat is, Paul is dead---nebber see him since. O, get out. All. is dat him creeping dar? Research Playwrights, Librettists, Composers and Lyricists. I feel so big with joy, creation ain't wide enough to hold me. I say, then, air you honest men? The Octoroon (1912) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. George. [Exit slowly, as if concealing himself,R.U.E. George. Why don't you speak, sir? In comparison, a quadroon would have one quarter African ancestry and a mulatto for the most part has historically implied half African ancestry. Well, he has the oddest way of making love. [Kicks pail from underPete,*and lets him down.*]. Ratts. What's here? 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? give me the rest that no master but One can disturb---the sleep from which I shall awake free! Bless'ee, Missey Zoe, here it be. I wish they could sell me! Go now, George---leave me---take her with you. Ah! [Weeping.] George. Zoe. Zoe. All Rights Reserved. Scud. Yes, den a glass ob fire-water; now den. Pete. You're a man as well as an auctioneer, ain't ye? The Judge is a little deaf. Come, Zoe, don't be a fool; I'd marry you if I could, but you know I can't; so just say what you want. Zoe. *, M'Closky. Paul. Paul. Wahnotee Patira na sepau assa wigiran. Mrs. P.Terrebonne for sale, and you, sir, will doubtless become its purchaser. 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. Pete. Then I shall never leave Terrebonne---the drink, nurse; the drink; that I may never leave my home---my dear, dear home. Dis yer prop'ty to be sold---old Terrebonne---whar we all been raised, is gwine---dey's gwine to tak it away---can't stop here no how. You thought you had cornered me, did ye? O, that's it, is it? Well, he cut that for the photographing line. Mrs. Pey. Scud. When you have done joking, gentlemen, you'll say one hundred and twenty thousand. save me! Hello, Pete, I never heard of that affair. 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. Scud. No, [looks off,R.] 'tis Pete and the servants---they come this way. [*Exit*Dora,L.U.E.] What on earth does that child mean or want? Consarn those Liverpool English fellers, why couldn't they send something by the last mail? Sunny. O, no; Mas'r Scudder, don't leave Mas'r Closky like dat---don't, sa---'tain't what good Christian should do. The Octoroon: The Story of the Turpentine Forest (1909) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. Dora. Eight hundred agin, then---I'll go it. Yah! All right, Judge; I thought there was a mistake. Then buy the hands along with the property. Mrs. P.Poor child! How would you like to rule the house of the richest planter on Atchafalaya---eh? Ain't you took them bags to the house yet? M'Closky. Wahnotee? no violence---the critter don't know what we mean. Well, sir, what does this Scudder do but introduces his inventions and improvements on this estate. Hi! Well---I didn't mean to kill him, did I? I daren't move fear to spile myself. Point. They owed him over fifty thousand dollars. It's such a long time since I did this sort of thing, and this old machine has got so dirty and stiff, I'm afraid it won't operate. Ten miles we've had to walk, because some blamed varmin onhitched our dug-out. Scud. Stephen King, I have a feeling that demonstrations don't accomplish anything. 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. I felt it---and how she can love! No, no! Zoe. That Indian is a nuisance. Hugh vieu. Scud. 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. He said so. | Sitemap |. You can protect me from that man---do let me die without pain. By ten I was playing competitively. I'll sweep these Peytons from this section of the country. In a little time this darned business will blow over, and I can show again. You told me it produced a long, long sleep. Sunny. None o' ye ign'rant niggars could cry for yerselves like dat. Pete. I only come back to find Wahnotee; whar is dat ign'ant Ingiun? Salem Scudder, a kind Yankee, was Judge Peyton's business partner; though he wishes he could save Terrebonne, he has no money. Sunny. Ratts. Guess they nebber was born---dem tings! Do you know what the niggers round here call that sight? You don't come here to take life easy. What a find! See Injiun; look dar [shows him plate], see dat innocent: look, dar's de murderer of poor Paul. I never killed a man in my life---and civilization is so strong in me I guess I couldn't do it---I'd like to, though! What's this? If you haven't spoiled her, I fear I have. You gib me rattan, Mas'r Clostry, but I guess you take a berry long stick to Wahnotee; ugh, he make bacon of you. Ay, ay! side.---A table and chairs,R.C. Gracediscovered sitting at breakfast-table with Children. A large table is in theC.,at back. Dora. [*Seeing*Dora.] If I was to try, I'd bust. George. M'Closky. Sunny. Sunny. My love? I'd be darned glad if somebody would tear my past life away from me. Thib. Then, if I sink every dollar I'm worth in her purchase, I'll own that Octoroon. Come, then, but if I catch you drinkin', O, laws a mussey, you'll get snakes! Ha, ha! M'Closky. [During the reading of letter he remains nearly motionless under the focus of the camera.] *], [Light fires.---Draw flats and discoverPaul'sgrave.---M'Closky*dead on top of it.---Wahnoteestanding triumphantly over him.*]. [GoesR.,*and looks atWahnotee,L.,through the camera;Wahnoteesprings back with an expression of alarm.*]. With them around us, if we have not wealth, we shall at least have the home that they alone can make---. Impossible; you have seen no one; whom can you mean? Mrs. P. What, sar? Lafouche. I'm gwine! A mistake, sar---forty-six. To "Mrs. Peyton, Terrebonne, Louisiana, United States." Be the first to contribute! Be the first to contribute! What, Zoe! We must excuse Scudder, friends. [Puts his head under the darkening apron.] Sunny. look at these fingers; do you see the nails are of a bluish tinge? I can't introduce any darned improvement there. The apparatus can't mistake. George. It makes my blood so hot I feel my heart hiss. 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. Hello! O, Zoe, my child! Yes, ma'am, I hold a mortgage over Terrebonne; mine's a ninth, and pretty near covers all the property, except the slaves. George. Well, ma'am, I spose there's no law agin my bidding for it. He's going to do an heroic act; don't spile it. Why should I refer the blame to her? Pete. The Injiun means that he buried him there! George. Go it, if you're a mind to. Mrs. P.Read, George. As my wife,---the sharer of my hopes, my ambitions, and my sorrows; under the shelter of your love I could watch the storms of fortune pass unheeded by. O! 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. Scud. Scud. Dora then reappears and bids on Zoe she has sold her own plantation in order to rescue Terrebonne. [Returning with rifle.] EnterLafoucheand*Jackson,L. Jackson. Scud. what will become of her when I am gone? George. George. 49, Paul, a quadroon boy, aged thirteen. Dora. The injiun! Yah! *] What a good creature she is. "No. What say ye, gentlemen? At college they said I was a fool---I must be. Well, is he not thus afflicted now? Pete. Come, Paul, are you ready? What's here? George reluctantly agrees. and will despise me, spurn me, loathe me, when he learns who, what, he has so loved.---[Aloud.] Lafouche. Look there, jurymen. 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.". Mas'r Ratts, you hard him sing about de place where de good niggers go, de last time. Scud. Scudder. The first lot on here is the estate in block, with its sugar-houses, stock, machines, implements, good dwelling-houses and furniture. "No," say Mas'r George, "I'd rather sell myself fuss; but dey shan't suffer, nohow,---I see 'em dam fuss.". [*Gives her coffee-pot to hold, and hobbles off, followed bySolonand*Dido,R.U.E.], Sunny. Scene 2 is set in the Bayou, where M'Closky is asleep. De time he gone just 'bout enough to cook dat dish plate. Ben Tolosa You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. dem tings---dem?---getaway [*makes blow at the*Children.] New York, NY, Linda Ray That part of it all is performance for the media. Good day, Mr. Thibodeaux---shall we drive down that way? Pete. [L.] Mr. George, I'm going to say somethin' that has been chokin' me for some time. Am I late? I shrunk from it and fled. He's an Injiun---fair play. If even Asian women saw the men of their own blood as less than other men, what was the use in arguing otherwise? Stan' back, I say I I'll nip the first that lays a finger on Him. Zoe is your child by a quadroon slave, and you didn't free her; blood! George. Hole yer tongues. Pete. Zoe. Paul. I'm writing about America's relationship to its own history. [Sitting,R. C.] A pretty mess you've got this estate in---. [Astonished.] 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. Mr. Peyton, I presume you have hesitated to make this avowal because you feared, in the present condition of affairs here, your object might be misconstrued, and that your attention was rather to my fortune than myself. [Reading bill.] That's Solon's wife and children, Judge. 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. Dido. [Knocks.] Is this a dream---for my brain reels with the blow? Ugh' ach! Don't you know that she is the natural daughter of the judge, your uncle, and that old lady thar just adored anything her husband cared for; and this girl, that another woman would a hated, she loves as if she'd been her own child. Dat you drink is fust rate for red fever. Pete. M'Closky,Why not? Scud. George. Paul. Dora. My darling! 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