And because we had a tennis court in our backyard, I played every day. Dora, you are right. [Outside,R.U.E.] Dis way---dis way. I shall never understand how to wound the feelings of any lady; and, if that is the custom here, I shall never acquire it. stan' round thar! that'll save her. 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. Let her pass! Ratts. Buy me, Mas'r Ratts, do buy me, sar? Sunnyside, how good you are; so like my poor Peyton. What in thunder should I do with you and those devils on board my boat? O, here he is. Now, Mr. George, between the two overseers, you and that good old lady have come to the ground; that is the state of things, just as near as I can fix it. By fair means I don't think you can get her, and don't you try foul with her, 'cause if you do, Jacob, civilization be darned. (p. 221) Daniel J. Siegel. Mrs. P. Hooraw! I also feel that demonstrations wouldn't go on unless there is a TV camera. I'll see you round the estate. Mas'r George---ah, no, sar---don't buy me---keep your money for some udder dat is to be sold. things have got so jammed in on top of us, we ain't got time to put kid gloves on to handle them. The term sensation drama caught on when Boucicault's The Colleen Bawn, adapted from Gerald Grifn's novel The Collegians, became a hit in 1860. Sorry I can't return the compliment. The machine can't err---you may mistake your phiz but the apparatus don't." [Knocks.] All right, Judge; I thought there was a mistake. M'Closky. O! O! I don't know; she may as well hear the hull of it. Grace. Well, he lived in New York by sittin' with his heels up in front of French's Hotel, and inventin'---. As they exit,M'Closkyrises from behind rock,R.,*and looks after them. Why, because I love Zoe, too, and I couldn't take that young feller from her; and she's jist living on the sight of him, as I saw her do; and they so happy in spite of this yer misery around them, and they reproachin' themselves with not feeling as they ought. Scud. Gustave Flaubert, Not that anyone short of God Almighty could have gotten Marcus Senior to rest and take it easy. You seem already familiar with the names of every spot on the estate. 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. Pete. Minnie (a Quadroon Slave) Miss Walters. 2, the yellow girl Grace, with two children---Saul, aged four, and Victoria five." Scud. When I am dead she will not be jealous of your love for me, no laws will stand between us. Ten years ago the judge took as overseer a bit of Connecticut hardware called M'Closky. [Rises.] I love one who is here, and he loves me---George. Take my shawl, Zoe. Says he'll go if I'll go with him. Happy to read and share the best inspirational Boucicault The Octoroon quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes. Zoe. Mrs. P.Zoe, dear, I'm glad to see you more calm this morning. Zoe. M'Closky. George. Lafouche. since you arrived! Every word of it, Squire. I sat outside his door all night---I heard his sighs---his agony---torn from him by my coming fate; and he said, "I'd rather see her dead than his!". 'Tis true! Just as McClosky points out the blood on Wahnotee's tomahawk, the oldest slave, Pete, comes to give them the photographic plate which has captured McClosky's deed. All there is there would kill one, wouldn't it? I don't think you capable of anything else than---. It was that rascal M'Closky---but he got rats, I avow---he killed the boy, Paul, to rob this letter from the mail-bags---the letter from Liverpool you know---he sot fire to the shed---that was how the steamboat got burned up. This old nigger, the grandfather of the boy you murdered, speaks for you---don't that go through you? *], [Light fires.---Draw flats and discoverPaul'sgrave.---M'Closky*dead on top of it.---Wahnoteestanding triumphantly over him.*]. Jodie Sweetin, Come down and eat chicken with me beautiful. [*With-draws slide, turns and sees*Paul.] Pete. But the creditors will not claim the gal? Now, den, if Grace dere wid her chil'n were all sold, she'll begin screechin' like a cat. Alex Tizon, To one who waits, all things reveal themselves so long as you have the courage not to deny in the darkness what you have seen in the light. Can you take any more? O, how I lapped up her words, like a thirsty bloodhound! And we all got rich from it, so, you know, there's a benefit from it. Boucicault The Octoroon Quotes & Sayings. Pete, you old turkey-buzzard, saddle my mare. It's near that now, and there's still the sugar-houses to be inspected. She is one-eighth black, the daughter of a "quadroon" slave woman, and is very. the bags are mine---now for it!---[Opens mail-bags.] M'Closky,Why not? Zoe. Since this letter would allow Mrs. Peyton to avoid selling Terrebonne, McClosky kills Paul and takes the letter. [*Goes*L.] Paul reste el! The Octoroon (1912) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. Dora. Ha! That boy and the Indian have gone down to the landing for the post-bags; they'll idle on the way as usual; my mare will take me across the swamp, and before they can reach the shed, I'll have purified them bags---ne'er a letter shall show this mail. [Fire seen,R.]. Guess they nebber was born---dem tings! Wahnotee Patira na sepau assa wigiran. [Inside room.] M'Closky. You're bidding to separate them, Judge. Zoe. I can't introduce any darned improvement there. Pete. It won't do! Well, he cut that for the photographing line. A Room in Mrs. Peyton's house; entrances,R.U.E.*andL.U.E.---An Auction Bill stuck up,*L.---chairs,C.,*and tables,*R. and L. Pete. Scud. Here's a pictur' for a civilized community to afford; yonder, a poor, ignorant savage, and round him a circle of hearts, white with revenge and hate, thirsting for his blood; you call yourselves judges---you ain't---you're a jury of executioners. He loves me---what of that? Do you know what that is? A large table is in theC.,at back. this old Liverpool debt---that may cross me---if it only arrive too late---if it don't come by this mail---Hold on! Point. I the sharer of your sorrows---your wife. The more bidders, the better for you. We have known each other but a few days, but to me those days have been worth all the rest of my life. M'Closky. It's not a painful death, aunty, is it? Coute Wahnotee in omenee dit go Wahnotee, poina la fa, comb a pine tree, la revieut sala, la fa. You made her life too happy, and now these tears will be. I can go no farther. Is it on such evidence you'd hang a human being? I don't know when my time on earth will be up; but I DO know that today, I am one day closer. I appeal against your usurped authority. Dat you drink is fust rate for red fever. Scud. she look as though she war gwine to have a tooth drawed! But now I guess it will arrive too late---these darned U. S. mails are to blame. Sunny. ], M'Closky. George. Paul. ], George. No, ma'am; here's the plan of it. In some form, human, or wild beast, or ghost, it has tracked me through the night. Lafouche. Zoe. Lafouche. Yes, missus. I have a restorative here---will you poor it in the glass? Mr. Sunnyside, I can't do this job of showin' round the folks; my stomach goes agin it. Scud. Sign up today to unlock amazing theatre resources and opportunities. there it comes---it comes---don't you hear a footstep on the dry leaves? 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. I'll see to that. Paul! [Throws mail bags down and sits on them,L. C.] Pret, now den go. Can't be ober dar an' here too---I ain't twins. Zoe. Say, Mas'r Scudder, s'pose we go in round by de quarters and raise de darkies, den dey cum long wid us, and we 'proach dat ole house like Gin'ral Jackson when he took London out dar. If you haven't spoiled her, I fear I have. Are they? [GoesR.,*and looks atWahnotee,L.,through the camera;Wahnoteesprings back with an expression of alarm.*]. One hundred thousand bid for this mag---. We can leave this country, and go far away where none can know. You love George; you love him dearly; I know it: and you deserve to be loved by him. [To Jackson.] [*ExitM'Closkyand*Pointdexter,R.U.E. Scud. I tell ye, 't'ain't so---we can't do it---we've got to be sold---, Pete. Scud. I hope I'm not intruding. Yes, I'm here, somewhere, interferin'. Hush! Zoe. you bomn'ble fry---git out---a gen'leman can't pass for you. The judge didn't understand accounts---the overseer did. "But, mister, that ain't my nose." Point. George. Judy Collins, You know there was always a confusion that punk was a style of music." Sunny. Well, sir, what does this Scudder do but introduces his inventions and improvements on this estate. [Putting it on the table,R. C.]. 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. [All salute.]. Farewell, Dora. Copyright 2023 Famous Quotes & Sayings. Solon. if dey aint all lighted, like coons, on dat snake fence, just out of shot. When Dion Boucicault's tragedy The Octoroon (set on a southern plantation) opened in December of 1859, many viewed the play as sectional propaganda; there was widespread disagreement, however, concerning the side for which the play argued. The Judge is a little deaf. [Brings hammer down.] [Zoe*helps her. Point. The earth has been stirred here lately. Ratts. George. [Re-enters with phial.] This business goes agin me, Ratts---'tain't right. If it don't stain de cup, your wicked ole life's in danger, sure! I'll put the naughty parts in French. 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. He said I want a nigger. If Omenee remain, Wahnotee will die in Terrebonne. But dis ain't all. I fetch as much as any odder cook in Louisiana. Pete, tell Miss Zoe that we are waiting. I give him back the liberty he bestowed upon me; for I can never repay him the love he bore his poor Octoroon child, on whose breast his last sigh was drawn, into whose eyes he looked with the last gaze of affection. O, none for me; I never eat. Come, Paul, are you ready? M'Closky overhears their conversation, but still vows he'll "have her if it costs [him] [his] life" (44). Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. Scud. Dion Boucicault. O, my father! [Pause.] Impossible; you have seen no one; whom can you mean? Scudder. M'Closky. George. Your eyes are red. He's yours, Captain Ratts, Magnolia steamer. George still loves Zoe, telling her: "[T]his knowledge brings no revolt to my heart, and I . Save me---save me! Dido. "Madam, we are instructed by the firm of Mason and Co., to inform you that a dividend of forty per cent, is payable on the 1st proximo, this amount in consideration of position, they send herewith, and you will find enclosed by draft to your order, on the Bank of Louisiana, which please acknowledge---the balance will be paid in full, with interest, in three, six, and nine months---your drafts on Mason Brothers at those dates will be accepted by La Palisse and Compagnie, N. O., so that you may command immediate use of the whole amount at once, if required. Pete. the apparatus can't lie. [C.] I'm sorry to intrude, but the business I came upon will excuse me. Some of you niggers run and hole de hosses; and take dis, Dido. I thought I heard the sound of a paddle in the water. Mas'r Ratts, you hard him sing about de place where de good niggers go, de last time. laws a massey! Jackson. In a few hours that man, my master, will come for me; he has paid my price, and he only consented to let me remain here this one night, because Mrs. Peyton promised to give me up to him to-day. This gal and them children belong to that boy Solon there. M'Closky. I left that siren city as I would have left a beloved woman. Could you see the roots of my hair you would see the same dark, fatal mark. Dora. The Steamer floats on at back, burning. Hold on, now! Look here; I can't stand that gal! It is in the hearts of brave men, who can tell right from wrong, and from whom justice can't be bought. M'Closky. But now that vagrant love is---eh? Why, Minnie, why don't you run when you hear, you lazy crittur? You will not give me to that man? what are you blowing about like a steamboat with one wheel for? You have been tried---honestly tried and convicted. Dar, do ye hear dat, ye mis'able darkies, dem gals is worth a boat load of kinder men dem is. [Wahnotee*sits*L.,rolled in blanket.]. Zoe. Ratts. Pete. Pete. [Shakes hands withGeorge.] I'll have her, if it costs me my life! Boucicault's manuscript actually reads "Indian, French and 'Merican." he does not know, he does not know! Lafouche. In a word, I have seen and admired you! [Draws knife.] George. 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. Gentlemen, I believe none of us have two feelings about the conduct of that man; but he has the law on his side---we may regret, but we must respect it. All Rights Reserved. I bid seven thousand, which is the last dollar this family possesses. what, dem?---get away! | Privacy Policy Take that, and defend yourself. M'Closky. Zoe. Pete. Pete. Zoe. I shall do so if you weep. Two hundred and forty-nine times! Burn! For the first time, twenty-five thousand---last time! Well, that has come out clear, ain't it? Miss Sunnyside, permit me a word; a feeling of delicacy has suspended upon my lips an avowal, which---. Was dat?---a cry out dar in de swamp---dar agin! Pete. 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. Wahnotee. Yes; I kept the letters, and squandered the money. [M'Closky*strikes him on the head---he falls dead.*]. What? Jackson. George says he can "overcome the obstacle" (43), but Zoe protests that they cannot be together. You are right, sir; though I shrank from expressing that opinion in her presence, so bluntly. I will be thirty years old again in thirty seconds. Look in my eyes; is not the same color in the white? . Then, as I knelt there, weeping for courage, a snake rattled beside me. he is here. Sunny. Have I slept upon the benefits I received, and never saw, never felt, never knew that I was forgetful and ungrateful? 'Cos I's skeered to try! She has had the education of a lady. 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. D'ye feel it? Jackson. Pete. We are catching fire forward; quick, set free from the shore. I say, Zoe, do you hear that? Dat's right, missus! Listen to me. [Aside.] you remind me so much of your uncle, the judge. Ah! Well, then, what has my all-cowardly heart got to skeer me so for? M'Closky. Point. Lafouche. Back at Terrebonne, Zoe returns but with a sad heart, as she knows that she and George can never be together. O, why did he speak to me at all then? McClosky, however, outbids her for Zoe; George is restrained from attacking him by his friends. George. here's the other one; she's a little too thoroughbred---too much of the greyhound; but the heart's there, I believe. me! You thought you had cornered me, did ye? Ratts. No---no. Mrs. P.My dear George, you are left in your uncle's will heir to this estate. Pete. 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. Then, if they go, they'll take Zoe---she'll follow them. Scud. Born here---dem darkies? 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. Don't be afraid; it ain't going for that, Judge. I---my mother was---no, no---not her! All night, as I fled through the cane-brake, I heard footsteps behind me. George. but the deed that freed you was not lawful. That's his programme---here's a pocket-book. I shall endeavor not to be jealous of the past; perhaps I have no right to be. [Leads her forward---aside.] Closky tue Paul---kill de child with your tomahawk dar; 'twasn't you, no---ole Pete allus say so. The Octoroon: The Story of the Turpentine Forest (1909) Quotes It looks like we don't have any Quotes for this title yet. Scud. I will! Ya! Ratts. Hush! Yes, Mas'r George, dey was born here; and old Pete is fonder on 'em dan he is of his fiddle on a Sunday. Of course not, you little fool; no one ever made love to you, and you can't understand; I mean, that George knows I am an heiress; my fortune would release this estate from debt. ", Pete. Zoe, will you remain here? M'Closky. Go on, Colonel. O, my husband! Pete. I have come to say good-by, sir; two hard words---so hard, they might break many a heart; mightn't they? That's right. 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. Zoe, listen to me, then. Don't do nuffin. 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! Thank'ye. look here, these Peytons are bust; cut 'em; I am rich, jine me; I'll set you up grand, and we'll give these first families here our dust, until you'll see their white skins shrivel up with hate and rage; what d'ye say? It was those quiet moments alone when I just hated the person I had become. Darn it, when I see a woman in trouble, I feel like selling the skin off my back. I must operate and take my own likeness too---how debbel I do dat? Something forcing its way through the undergrowth---it comes this way---it's either a bear or a runaway nigger. Pete. [Enters house.]. George. Zoe. That's a challenge to begin a description of my feminine adventures. Hold on! He didn't ought to bid against a lady. Darn his copper carcass, I've got a set of Irish deck-hands aboard that just loved that child; and after I tell them this, let them get a sight of the red-skin, I believe they would eat him, tomahawk and all. can you smile at this moment? McClosky intercepts a young slave boy, Paul, who is bringing a mailbag to the house which contains a letter from one of Judge Peyton's old debtors. Pete. I thank Heaven you have not lived to see this day. Despite the happiness Zoe stands dying and the play ends with her death on the sitting-room couch and George kneeling beside her. Solon. | Privacy Policy If there's a chance of it, there's not a planter round here who wouldn't lend you the whole cash, to keep your name and blood amongst us. M'Closky. I have it. George. If even Asian women saw the men of their own blood as less than other men, what was the use in arguing otherwise? [During the reading of letter he remains nearly motionless under the focus of the camera.] there's that noise again! Poor fellow, he has lost all. Stan' back, boys! That they become fads. M'Closky. No, no! Zoe. O, aunt! "All right," says the judge, and away went a thousand acres; so at the end of eight years, Jacob M'Closky, Esquire, finds himself proprietor of the richest half of Terrebonne---. why, clar out! Ratts. Here, stay! How the flames crack. Keep quiet, and let's talk sense. Scud. Yes, near the quick there is a faint blue mark. Some of those sirens of Paris, I presume, [Pause.] Mr. George, I am afraid, if all we hear is true, you have led a dreadful life in Europe. dat right! What's dat? Mrs. P.George, you are incorrigible. Peyton.] air you true? Mrs. P.Wahnotee, will you go back to your people? M'Closky. If he stirs, I'll put a bullet through his skull, mighty quick. My dear husband never kept any accounts, and we scarcely know in what condition the estate really is. George. Sunny. Let me proceed by illustration. Zoe. Dora. drop dat banana! *EnterPaul,wrestling with*Wahnotee,R.3. Dora said you were slow; if she could hear you now---. The judge drew money like Bourbon whiskey from a barrel, and never turned off the tap. I hate 'em. have I fixed ye? Give us evidence. He looked in to see what stopped it, and pulled out a big mortgage. [*Hands papers to*Mrs. Captain, you've loaded up here until the boat is sunk so deep in the mud she won't float. To be alive is to be breathing. "No. That is the ineffaceable curse of Cain. [Aside,C.] Insolent as usual.---[Aloud.] Dora. My love! Pete. [Laughs.]. [*Throws bowie-knife to*M'Closky.] 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. 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." ], M'Closky. Wahnotee appears, drunk and sorrowful, and tells them that Paul is buried near them. All Rights Reserved. George. Zoe. Scud. How dar you say dat, you black nigger, you? Paul. she would revolt from it, as all but you would; and if I consented to hear the cries of my heart, if I did not crush out my infant love, what would she say to the poor girl on whom she had bestowed so much? Hold on a bit, I get you de bottle. Scud. Scud. The murder is captured on Scudder's photographic apparatus. Top, you varmin! In cash? [Rising.] Top The Octoroon Quotes I will be thirty years old again in thirty seconds. Pete. "Sign that," says the overseer; "it's only a formality." Dora, oblivious to George's lack of affection for her, enlists Zoe's help to win him over. New York, NY, Ages 12-17: Camp Broadway Ensemble @ Carnegie Hall Yah! O, get out. McClosky has proved that Judge Peyton did not succeed in legally freeing her, as he had meant to do. 'Tain't no faint---she's a dying, sa; she got pison from old Dido here, this mornin'. O, I have not spoiled that anyhow. Scud. EnterSolon*andDidowith coffee-pot, dishes, &c.,*R.U.E. Dido. When you have done joking, gentlemen, you'll say one hundred and twenty thousand. if I had you one by one, alone in the swamp, I'd rip ye all. The auctioneer arrives, along with prospective buyers, McClosky among them. Hold your tongue---it must. Mrs. Claiborne Miss Clinton. M'Closky. What! for me---look ye here! What more d'ye want---ain't that proof enough? I'm on you like a painter, and when I'm drawed out I'm pizin. What's here? The Octoroon is appropriately considered a sensation drama, though it received the label retrospectively. Zoe, you have suspected the feeling that now commands an utterance---you have seen that I love you. To Jacob M'Closky, the Octoroon girl, Zoe, twenty-five thousand dollars. I hope we don't intrude on the family. I was up before daylight. O, dear Zoe, is he in love with anybody? Zoe. go on. [Aside.] 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. Top, sar! Debbel's in de pail! Mrs. P.Hospitality in Europe is a courtesy; here, it is an obligation. He can fight though he's a painter; claws all over. George, George, your words take away my breath! Pete. Scud. George. Liverpool post mark. Then, if I sink every dollar I'm worth in her purchase, I'll own that Octoroon. Git away dere! Now fix yourself. you seen dem big tears in his eyes. Mrs. P.But it may be years yet before it will be paid off, if ever. Pete, as you came here, did you pass Paul and the Indian with the letter-bags? I know then that the boy was killed with that tomahawk---the red-skin owns it---the signs of violence are all round the shed---this apparatus smashed---ain't it plain that in a drunken fit he slew the boy, and when sober concealed the body yonder? His new cotton gins broke down, the steam sugar-mills burst up, until he finished off with his folly what Mr. M'Closky with his knavery began. What was this here Scudder? What's de charge, Mas'r Scudder? European, I suppose. Hillo! Not a picayune. How long before we start, captain? Scud. Salem's looking a kinder hollowed out. 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. Pete. He is sitting on on my prize! M'Closky. I'm not guilty; would ye murder me? Is de folks head bad? What say ye? The Injiun means that he buried him there! Dat's what her soul's gwine to do. my life, my happy life; why has it been so bright? He will love you---he must. [Sits,R. C.]. how can you say so? Boucicault adapted the play from the novel The Quadroon by Thomas Mayne Reid (1856). Ratts. *EnterPete, Dido, Solon, Minnie,and*Grace. We work. Zoe. Enjoy reading and share 1 famous quotes about The Octoroon with everyone. [Aside.] He and Zoe admit to their love of each other; a heartbroken Dora leaves. Ah! A draft for eighty-five thousand dollars, and credit on Palisse and Co., of New Orleans, for the balance. Zoe. Hillo! [*Takes fan from*Minnie.] O! I didn't know whether they are completely honest. Now it's cooking, laws mussey, I feel it all inside, as if it was at a lottery. This lynch law is a wild and lawless proceeding. Mr. M'Closky has bid twenty-five thousand dollars for the Octoroon. Eleven hundred---going---going---sold! Pete. Stop; this would. Boucicault The Octoroon Quotes & Sayings. Dere's a dish of pen-pans---jess taste, Mas'r George---and here's fried bananas; smell 'em, do, sa glosh. yar, you Wahnotee! George. Dora. I always said you were the darndest thief that ever escaped a white jail to misrepresent the North to the South. I will dine on oysters and palomitas and wash them down with white wine. Poor little Paul! Do not weep, George. He's too fond of thieving and whiskey. [Raising his voice.] burn! For a year or two all went fine. Scud. Down with him! Judge, my friend. [Sighing.] George. Dat's me---yer, I'm comin'---stand around dar. Zoe. The proof is here, in my heart. Haven't you worked like a horse? Thib. Eight hundred agin, then---I'll go it. Well---I didn't mean to kill him, did I? They have realized that Paul is missing, and most believe him dead. What, Mr. Ratts, are you going to invest in swamps? Silence in the court; stand back, let the gentlemen of the jury retire, consult, and return their verdict. Come, Judge, pick up. M'Closky. [Aside to Zoe.] [Music.]. I'll trouble you for that piece of baccy, Judge---thank you---so, gentlemen, as life is short, we'll start right off. Ben Tolosa You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. 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.*. Dora. Paul. Nebber supply no more, sar---nebber dance again. I only come back to find Wahnotee; whar is dat ign'ant Ingiun? George. George. 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