Was dat?---a cry out dar in de swamp---dar agin! O, get out. O! As I swam down, I thought I heard something in the water, as if pursuing me---one of them darned alligators, I suppose---they swarm hereabout---may they crunch every limb of ye! The conflict centers around Zoe, "the Octoroon", a term used at the time to describe a person who was 1/8 African, 7/8 Caucasian. Zoe, you are young; your mirror must have told you that you are beautiful. Paul. Good morning, Mr. Sunnyside; Miss Dora, your servant. *], [Light fires.---Draw flats and discoverPaul'sgrave.---M'Closky*dead on top of it.---Wahnoteestanding triumphantly over him.*]. M'Closky. 3, Pete, a house servant. Dora. 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. dem darkies! The Octoroon's Sacrifice (1912) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. And what shall I say? Tullian Tchividjian. Scud. No! [R.] Then why don't you buy it yourself, Colonel? What, on Terrebonne! Yes, I love you---I did not know it until your words showed me what has been in my heart; each of them awoke a new sense, and now I know how unhappy---how very unhappy I am. I feel so big with joy, creation ain't wide enough to hold me. Mr. Sunnyside, I can't do this job of showin' round the folks; my stomach goes agin it. What's this, eh? Sunnyside, how good you are; so like my poor Peyton. What court of law would receive such evidence? [Sees tomahawk in Wahnotee's belt---draws it out and examines it.] laws a massey! He loves me---what of that? Judge, you can raise the hull on mortgage---going for half its value. George. The Wharf---goods, boxes, and bales scattered about---a camera on stand, R. Scudder, R., Dora, L., George*andPauldiscovered;Dorabeing photographed byScudder,who is arranging photographic apparatus,GeorgeandPaullooking on at back.*. Yes, ma'am, I hold a mortgage over Terrebonne; mine's a ninth, and pretty near covers all the property, except the slaves. Fifteen thousand bid for the Octoroon. The list of your slaves is incomplete---it wants one. [Rises.] You got four of dem dishes ready. M'Closky. Ten years ago the judge took as overseer a bit of Connecticut hardware called M'Closky. Has not my dear aunt forgotten it---she who had the most right to remember it? George. That one black drop of blood burns in her veins and lights up her heart like a foggy sun. There are no witnesses but a rum bottle and an old machine. George. Fair or foul, I'll have her---take that home with you! Mrs. P.Yes, there is a hope left yet, and I cling to it. Ratts. I tell ye dar's somebody in dar. Sunny. I'll bear it. Wahnote*swims on---finds trail---follows him. "A fine, well-built old family mansion, replete with every comfort.". You wanted to come to an understanding, and I'm coming thar as quick as I can. You are a white man; you'll not leave one of your own blood to be butchered by the red-skin? Dido. Farewell, Dora. Ugh' ach! I'm broke, Solon---I can't stop the Judge. Ratts. Well, he cut that for the photographing line. "No," say Mas'r George, "I'd rather sell myself fuss; but dey shan't suffer, nohow,---I see 'em dam fuss.". My darling! I will take the best room in the Grand Central or the Orndorff Hotel. Zoe. Hillo! Ya! I'ss, Mas'r George. I guess he ain't left home yet, Colonel. You can protect me from that man---do let me die without pain. Gosh, wouldn't I like to hab myself took! Thank you, Mas'r Ratts: I die for you, sar; hold up for me, sar. [Pete goes down.] 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. Poor little Paul! [Returns to table and drinks.]. You seem already familiar with the names of every spot on the estate. ", Pete. Now, ma'am, I'd like a little business, if agreeable. What! Ratts. Hello! Zoe. Ah! Bah! I've got engaged eight hundred bales at the next landing, and one hundred hogsheads of sugar at Patten's Slide---that'll take my guards under---hurry up thar. you remind me so much of your uncle, the judge. M'Closky. shall we have one law for the red-skin and another for the white? Come along; she har what we say, and she's cryin' for us. What's come ob de child? Ratts. Top a bit! Well, near on five hundred dollars. Pete. Dido. 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. Ratts. And you killed him? Zoe. Brian Tracy, How you look at a situation is very important, for how you think about a problem may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. 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. Yes, Mas'r George, dey was born here; and old Pete is fonder on 'em dan he is of his fiddle on a Sunday. who has been teasing you? [R.] Well, what's the use of argument whar guilt sticks out so plain; the boy and Injiun were alone when last seen. [Doraattempts to take it.] George Peyton returns to the United States from a trip to France to find that the plantation he has inherited is in dire financial straits as a result of his late uncle's beneficence. No, dear. I wish they could sell me! I will be thirty years old again in thirty seconds. [*Gives her coffee-pot to hold, and hobbles off, followed bySolonand*Dido,R.U.E.], Sunny. Ya! Why, Dora, what's the matter? And twenty thousand bid. See also Trivia | Goofs | Crazy Credits | Alternate Versions | Connections | Soundtracks Did You Know? [Offers hand,Georgebows coldly,R. C.] [aside.] I left my loves and my creditors equally inconsolable. It was like trying to make a shark sit up and beg for treats. With Dora's wealth, he explains, Terrebonne will not be sold and the slaves will not have to be separated. Zoe. I'm 'most afraid to take Wahnotee to the shed, there's rum there. We'll hire out our slaves, and live on their wages. They do not notice Zoe.---[Aloud.] Look dar! Excuse me ladies. dat right! Ratts. [*Exit*Mrs. Peyton*and*George,L.U.E.] A slave! Scud. [Shouts heard,R.]. Zoe, if all I possess would buy your freedom, I would gladly give it. [Throws mail bags down and sits on them,L. C.] Pret, now den go. One hundred and forty-nine bales. When he speaks to one he does it so easy, so gentle; it isn't bar-room style; love lined with drinks, sighs tinged with tobacco---and they say all the women in Paris were in love with him, which I feelIshall be; stop fanning me; what nice boots he wears. Scud. Pete. Scud. you're looking well. how can you say so? that you will not throw me from you like a poisoned thing! He's too fond of thieving and whiskey. M'Closky. Who's you to set up screching?---be quiet! Top, sar! Dora. Hark! Guess it kill a dozen---nebber try. [Pete holds lantern up.] Scud. Go on, Colonel---Colonel Pointdexter, ma'am---the mortgagee, auctioneer, and general agent. I didn't know whether they are completely honest. what are you doing there, you young varmint! She didn't mind how kind old judge was to her; and Solon, too, he'll holler, and break de ole lady's heart. 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. By ten I was playing competitively. If there is no bid for the estate and stuff, we'll sell it in smaller lots. ExitSolon,R.U.E.] Dem little niggers is a judgment upon dis generation. Aunt, when he died, two years ago, I read over those letters of his, and if I didn't cry like a baby---. Will ye? If he caught the fever, were stung by a snake, or possessed of any other poisonous or unclean thing, you could pity, tend, love him through it, and for your gentle care he would love you in return. if dey aint all lighted, like coons, on dat snake fence, just out of shot. Solon. No, [looks off,R.] 'tis Pete and the servants---they come this way. I arrived just too late, he had grabbed the prize as I came up. 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. | Sitemap |. Pete. You nasty, lying Injiun! Scud. Ratts. Come, Judge, pick up. Dora. The auctioneer arrives, along with prospective buyers, McClosky among them. It's a good drink to see her come into the cotton fields---the niggers get fresh on the sight of her. I can't introduce any darned improvement there. 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. If she ain't worth her weight in sunshine you may take one of my fingers off, and choose which you like. Mrs. P.O, George,---my son, let me call you,---I do not speak for my own sake, nor for the loss of the estate, but for the poor people here; they will be sold, divided, and taken away---they have been born here. Why you tremble so? Paul. You can bet I'm going to make this . George. Lynch him! Let me proceed by illustration. 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. O, you horrible man! Paying the iron price. He didn't ought to bid against a lady. EnterScudder, George, Ratts, Caillou, Pete, Grace, Minnie,and all theNegroes. Look in my eyes; is not the same color in the white? go on. 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. O, Miss Zoe, why you ask ole Dido for dis pizen? ], M'Closky. George. Here's the Picayune [producing paper] with the advertisement. Your eyes are red. Dido. Now fix yourself. How came they in your possession? Yes, for you, for me, for dem little ones, dem folks cried. Stephen King, I have a feeling that demonstrations don't accomplish anything. "Judgment, 40,000, 'Thibodeaux against Peyton,'"---surely, that is the judgment under which this estate is now advertised for sale---[takes up paper and examines it]; yes, "Thibodeaux against Peyton, 1838." thank you. It contains elements of Romanticism and melodrama. 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