Just as soon as we put this cotton on board. [*To*Wahnotee.] I shall knock it down to the Squire---going---gone---for one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. or say the word, and I'll buy this old barrack, and you shall be mistress of Terrebonne. It's not a painful death, aunty, is it? Is my plantation at Comptableau worth this? You love George; you love him dearly; I know it: and you deserve to be loved by him. Listen to me. 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.] Mrs. P.Poor child! 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. Not lawful---no---but I am going to where there is no law---where there is only justice. Yes---when I saw him and Miss Zoe galloping through the green sugar crop, and doing ten dollars' worth of damage at every stride, says I, how like his old uncle he do make the dirt fly. [GoesR.,*and looks atWahnotee,L.,through the camera;Wahnoteesprings back with an expression of alarm.*]. Ah! [Doraattempts to take it.] Are you ready? 3, Pete, a house servant. 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.*. tink anybody wants you to cry? I must be going---it is late. the rat's out. O, Mas'r Scudder, he didn't cry zackly; both ob his eyes and cheek look like de bad Bayou in low season---so dry dat I cry for him. M'Closky. 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. If it don't stain de cup, your wicked ole life's in danger, sure! Ay, ay! [Music. 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. I listen dar jess now---dar was ole lady cryin'---Mas'r George---ah! The house of Mason Brothers, of Liverpool, failed some twenty years ago in my husband's debt. I'ss, Mas'r George. Lafouche. If I was to try, I'd bust. That one black drop of blood burns in her veins and lights up her heart like a foggy sun. EnterPaul,R.U.E.,withIndian,who goes up. Zoe. Go it, if you're a mind to. "No. Scud. See here, you imps; if I catch you, and your red skin yonder, gunning in my swamps, I'll give you rats, mind; them vagabonds, when the game's about, shoot my pigs. 'Top; you look, you Wahnotee; you see dis rag, eh? Was dat?---a cry out dar in de swamp---dar agin! [*Exit*Thibodeaux, Sunnyside, Ratts, Pointdexter, Grace, Jackson, Lafouche, Caillou, Solon,R.U.E. Scud. You see how easily I have become reconciled to my fate---so it will be with you. I arrived just too late, he had grabbed the prize as I came up. you remind me so much of your uncle, the judge. | About Us What, sar? 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. Five hundred bid---it's a good price. Because it was the truth; and I had rather be a slave with a free soul, than remain free with a slavish, deceitful heart. Boucicault The Octoroon Quotes & Sayings. It's a good drink to see her come into the cotton fields---the niggers get fresh on the sight of her. I wish he would make love to me. Look here; I can't stand that gal! Top a bit! 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. M'Closky. the bags are mine---now for it!---[Opens mail-bags.] 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. Top Boucicault The Octoroon Quotes. M'Closky,Why not? Last night I overheard you weeping in your room, and you said, "I'd rather see her dead than so! 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! Dem debils. Pete. I'll see to that. Zoe. Yonder the boy still lurks with those mail-bags; the devil still keeps him here to tempt me, darn his yellow skin. E. Paul. He calls me Omenee, the Pigeon, and Miss Zoe is Ninemoosha, the Sweetheart. We've had talk enough; now for proof. [R.] Well, what's the use of argument whar guilt sticks out so plain; the boy and Injiun were alone when last seen. That is the ineffaceable curse of Cain. Scud. Sunny. Good day, ma'am. Hush! Don't be a fool; they'd kill you, and then take her, just as soon as---stop; Old Sunnyside, he'll buy her! M'Closky. The Steamer moves off---fire kept up---M'Closky*re-enters,*R.,*swimming on.*. Says he'll go if I'll go with him. George R R Martin. Who's you to set up screching?---be quiet! No; but you, aunty, you are wise---you know every plant, don't you, and what it is good for? Mrs. P.Read, George. "But, sir, it ain't agreeable." [During the dialogueWahnoteehas takenGeorge'sgun. Now, den, if Grace dere wid her chil'n were all sold, she'll begin screechin' like a cat. The men begin to call for McClosky to be lynched, but Scudder convinces them to send him to jail instead. [Shows plate. O, why did he speak to me at all then? 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. M'Closky. I don't care, they were blue this morning, but it don't signify now. Paul. I fetch as much as any odder cook in Louisiana. That they become fads. She didn't mind how kind old judge was to her; and Solon, too, he'll holler, and break de ole lady's heart. 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. When the play was performed in England it was given a happy ending, in which the mixed-race couple are united. Scud. Point. I'd cut my throat---or yours---yours I'd prefer. Zoe. Mrs. P.The child was a favorite of the judge, who encouraged his gambols. Well, that's all right; but as he can't marry her, and as Miss Dora would jump at him---. Guess they nebber was born---dem tings! Ho! [Advances.] Consarn those Liverpool English fellers, why couldn't they send something by the last mail? Dora, oblivious to George's lack of affection for her, enlists Zoe's help to win him over. Improvements---anything, from a stay-lace to a fire-engine. I bring you news; your banker, old Lafouche, of New Orleans, is dead; the executors are winding up his affairs, and have foreclosed on all overdue mortgages, so Terrebonne is for sale. Here! Now don't stir. No; if you were I'd buy you, if you cost all I'm worth. A photographic plate. Pete. What, you won't, won't ye? [Who has been looking about the camera.] Dora. You will not give me to that man? EnterLafoucheand*Jackson,L. Jackson. Ratts. Look there. Give us evidence. George. I shall endeavor not to be jealous of the past; perhaps I have no right to be. M'Closky. He stood gazing in wonder at her work-basket as if it was something extraordinary. I thought none but colored people worked. Of the blood that feeds my heart, one drop in eight is black---bright red as the rest may be, that one drop poisons all the flood; those seven bright drops give me love like yours---hope like yours---ambition like yours---Life hung with passions like dew-drops on the morning flowers; but the one black drop gives me despair, for I'm an unclean thing---forbidden by the laws---I'm an Octoroon! Let me be sold then, that I may free his name. Paul. Hold on! Point. [Dances.]. Scud. Fair or foul, I'll have her---take that home with you! You got four of dem dishes ready. I do, but I can't do it. O, my father! he tinks it's a gun. Come, Mrs. Peyton, take my arm. Dido. See also Trivia | Goofs | Crazy Credits | Alternate Versions | Connections | Soundtracks Getting Started | Contributor Zone M'Closky. That judgment still exists; under it and others this estate is sold to-day. Here then, I'll put back these Peytons in Terrebonne, and they shall know you done it; yes, they'll have you to thank for saving them from ruin. Scud. Come, Mr. Thibodeaux, a man has a chance once in his life---here's yours. Point. Paul. Dora. Paul! But now that vagrant love is---eh? I hope we don't intrude on the family. 49, Paul, a quadroon boy, aged thirteen. European, I suppose. Pete. Scud. I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. Sunny. What! I will! Never, aunt! Dear Dora, try to understand it with your heart. [Draws pistol---M'Closky*rushes on and falls atScudder'sfeet.*]. [Reads.] He's going to do an heroic act; don't spile it. 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---. [Aside.] We have known each other but a few days, but to me those days have been worth all the rest of my life. Point. What's the law? This blow has staggered me some. Come here quite; now quite. clar out! Now I'm ready. yes, plenty of 'em; bill of costs; account with Citizens' Bank---what's this? Enjoy reading and share 7 famous quotes about Boucicault The Octoroon with everyone. Pete. George. He can fight though he's a painter; claws all over. Point. TheNegromounts the table from behind*C.The Company sit. Gain full access to show guides, character breakdowns, auditions, monologues and more! Pete. [*To*Zoe.] You nasty, lying Injiun! He is incapable of any but sincere and pure feelings---so are you. 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. Sunny. Come on, Pete, we shan't reach the house before midday. You can protect me from that man---do let me die without pain. 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. Yes, den a glass ob fire-water; now den. As they exit,M'Closkyrises from behind rock,R.,*and looks after them. [Looks through camera] O, golly! Dido. I can go no farther. Do I? [Rising.] Scud. 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*lowers his hand. Lafouche. George. You ign'ant Injiun, it can't hurt you! Let me hide them till I teach my heart. Dido. dem darkies! There's one name on the list of slaves scratched, I see. Stephen King, I have a feeling that demonstrations don't accomplish anything. [Raises hand to back of his neck.] [Enters inner room,R.U.E.]. Is that you, Mr. Overseer? You are right, sir; though I shrank from expressing that opinion in her presence, so bluntly. That Indian is a nuisance. It ain't no use now; you got to gib it up! It is such scenes as these that bring disgrace upon our Western life. I can think of nothing but the image that remains face to face with me: so beautiful, so simple, so confiding, that I dare not express the feelings that have grown up so rapidly in my heart. Hi! Zoe, you have suspected the feeling that now commands an utterance---you have seen that I love you. George. Do you know what the niggers round here call that sight? It is an adaptation of Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon , which premiered in 1859. No; a weakness, that's all---a little water. forgive your poor child. Look at 'em, Jacob, for they are honest water from the well of truth. M'Closky. O, here, do you know what annuity the old judge left you is worth to-day? Glendon Swarthout, Never believe in any faith younger than you are." I didn't know whether they are completely honest. Sorry I can't help you, but the fact is, you're in such an all-fired mess that you couldn't be pulled out without a derrick. Scud. You're bidding to separate them, Judge. You want to hurt yourself. Sunny. Paul. All. [Aside.] [Wahnotee*rises and looks atM'Closky---he is in his war paint and fully armed.*]. I don't know when my time on earth will be up; but I DO know that today, I am one day closer. I'll have her, if it costs me my life! Poor Injiun lub our little Paul. It concerns the residents of a Louisiana plantation called Terrebonne, and sparked debates about the abolition of slavery and the role of theatre in politics. In comparison, a quadroon would have one quarter African ancestry and a mulatto for the most part has historically implied half African ancestry. 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. [Exit slowly, as if concealing himself,R.U.E. George. [L.] Let the old darkey alone---eight hundred for that boy. Where's that man from Mobile that wanted to give one hundred and eighty thousand? She refuses, but Zoe steals the bottle from her anyway and runs off. Uh---uh, let's have a peep. Mrs. P.I expect an important letter from Liverpool; away with you, Paul; bring the mail-bags here. there's that noise again! Sunnyside, Pointdexter, Jackson, Peyton; here it is---the Liverpool post-mark, sure enough!---[Opens letter---reads.] Is the prisoner guilty, or is he not guilty? For the first time, twenty-five thousand---last time! [*Goes*L.] Paul reste el! Where did she live and what sort of life did she lead? Scud. M'Closky. Go and try it, if you've a mind to. Git away dere! [Offers hand,Georgebows coldly,R. C.] [aside.] 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. I---my mother was---no, no---not her! Pete. Buy me, Mas'r Ratts, do buy me, sar? Ha, ha!---[Calls.] [Inside room.] Scud. Dido. Yes; No. Point. "Whar's Paul?" Keep quiet, and let's talk sense. I'll clear him off there---he'll never know what stunned him. Pete. Ratts. Zoe, bring here the judge's old desk; it is in the library. thank you. Jackson. Ah. I guess he ain't left home yet, Colonel. Pete. I have it. We'll hire out our slaves, and live on their wages. 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. Scud. [Pause.] Dam dat Injiun! Impossible; you have seen no one; whom can you mean? Scud. Thib. Ratts. Unlock this Study Guide! Scud. What's dat? [SeesPete,*who has set his pail down*L. C.up stage, and goes to sleep on it.] [Reading bill.] if dey aint all lighted, like coons, on dat snake fence, just out of shot. [] 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) Captain, you've loaded up here until the boat is sunk so deep in the mud she won't float. Is there any other bid? Zoe. The judge drew money like Bourbon whiskey from a barrel, and never turned off the tap. Well, he cut that for the photographing line. Traduced! Something forcing its way through the undergrowth---it comes this way---it's either a bear or a runaway nigger. [He is borne off in boat, struggling. No---no. Don't be afraid; it ain't going for that, Judge. Thank ye; thank ye. Scud. Pete. Why, with principal and interest this debt has been more than doubled in twenty years. is this true?---no, it ain't---darn it, say it ain't. [To Jackson.] Well, then, what has my all-cowardly heart got to skeer me so for? this infernal letter would have saved all. Everybody---that is, I heard so. Scud. You heard him say it was hopeless. Paul. I have a restorative here---will you poor it in the glass? 1, Solon, a guess boy, and good waiter.". No, sar; nigger nebber cut stick on Terrebonne; dat boy's dead, sure. 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. O, aunt! She loves him! Some of those sirens of Paris, I presume, [Pause.] It's going up dar, whar dere's no line atween folks. Save me---save me! The judge didn't understand accounts---the overseer did. M'Closky. [Wrenches it from him.] "No. Scud. So! Well, near on five hundred dollars. Darn that girl; she makes me quiver when I think of her; she's took me for all I'm worth. Hillo! 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---. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. Dem doctors ain't no 'count; dey don't know nuffin. Pete. ], Paul. Be the first to contribute! Now's your time.---[Aloud.] Dora. what are you blowing about like a steamboat with one wheel for? When she goes along, she just leaves a streak of love behind her. 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. George. Scud. 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. Zoe. [Knocks.] Pete. What's here---judgments? ---Cane-brake Bayou.---Bank,C.---Triangle Fire,R. C.---Canoe,C.---M'Closky*discovered asleep. M'Closky. Zoe, will you remain here? No; but I loved you so, I could not bear my fate; and then I stood your heart and hers. [Scandalized.] Scud. I'll lend you all you want. Zoe. O! When George asks why, Zoe explains that she is an octoroon, and the law prevents a white man from marrying anyone with the smallest black heritage. 'Tain't no faint---she's a dying, sa; she got pison from old Dido here, this mornin'. It wants an hour yet to daylight---here is Pete's hut---[Knocks.] Mrs. Peyton, George Peyton, Terrebonne is yours. Do you think they would live here on such terms? If there is no bid for the estate and stuff, we'll sell it in smaller lots. Good morning, Mrs. Peyton. Zoe. M'Closky. [falls on her knees, with her face in her hands] no---no master, but one. Dat's right, missus! Here we are on the selvage of civilization. Where are they? Scud. I saw the mail-bags lying in the shed this morning. Dat you drink is fust rate for red fever. O, Zoe! Pete. The devil I am! I say, then, air you honest men? Gentlemen, the sale takes place at three. Didn't I? Jacob, your accuser is that picter of the crime---let that speak---defend yourself. [Putting it on the table,R. C.]. if this is so, she's mine! It's soooo dark. Ya! I won't hear a word! [Aside to Zoe.] Where is he? EnterZoe,L.U.E.,very pale, and stands on table.---M'Closkyhitherto has taken no interest in the sale, now turns his chair. Stop! Wahnotee. Excuse me ladies. Race or not, it's a story about . Pete. You gib me rattan, Mas'r Clostry, but I guess you take a berry long stick to Wahnotee; ugh, he make bacon of you. No, sir; you have omitted the Octoroon girl, Zoe. 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!". Why, Minnie, why don't you run when you hear, you lazy crittur? Ben Tolosa You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. George. Don't b'lieve it, Mas'r George,---no. Hillo! Now, my culled brethren, gird up your lines, and listen---hold on yer bref---it's a comin. 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. 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. He gone down to de landing last night wid Mas'r Scudder; not come back since---kint make it out. Grace. The poetry and the songs that you are suppose to write, I believe are in your heart. I must operate and take my own likeness too---how debbel I do dat? she look as though she war gwine to have a tooth drawed! Scud. faded---is it not? give me the rest that no master but One can disturb---the sleep from which I shall awake free! Lafouche. Hold on, you'll see. Beat that any of ye. Fifteen thousand. Scud. George. Yes, ma'am, I hold a mortgage over Terrebonne; mine's a ninth, and pretty near covers all the property, except the slaves. where am I? Seeking 2 Actor Team for Spring 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, tell Miss Zoe that we are waiting. "No, ma'am, the truth seldom is.". *EnterMrs. PeytonandScudder, M'Closkyand*Pointdexter,R. M'Closky. Make an argument for each side of the slavery argument here, analyzing how the play could be read as both anti- and pro-slavery. Minnie (a Quadroon Slave) Miss Walters. 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? You told me it produced a long, long sleep. He confesses it; the Indian got drunk, quarreled with him, and killed him. Important Quotes. While the proceeds of this sale promises to realize less than the debts upon it, it is my duty to prevent any collusion for the depreciation of the property. Ratts. George. Yes---me and Co.---we done it; but, as you were senior partner in the concern, I reckon you got the big lick. E.---Wahnoteefaces him.---Fight---buss. M'Closky. 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. Guess it kill a dozen---nebber try. 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. 'An Octoroon' was written over about three years but premiered in 2014. [Returns to table and drinks.]. Enjoy reading and share 1 famous quotes about The Octoroonwith everyone. Zoe. I left my loves and my creditors equally inconsolable. 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. De time he gone just 'bout enough to cook dat dish plate. I shrunk from it and fled. M'Closky. [*Points down, and shows by pantomime how he buried*Paul.]. Wood up thar, you Polio---hang on to the safety valve---guess she'll crawl off on her paddles. 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. Come, form a court then, choose a jury---we'll fix this varmin. Ten miles we've had to walk, because some blamed varmin onhitched our dug-out. whew! The Judge is a little deaf. Remember, your attitude toward a situation can help you to change it you create the very atmosphere for defeat or victory. Pete. 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. If you want a quarrel---. Scad. O, Zoe, my child! Be the first to contribute! war's de crowd gone? Salem Scudder, a kind Yankee, was Judge Peyton's business partner; though he wishes he could save Terrebonne, he has no money. Gen'l'men, my colored frens and ladies, dar's mighty bad news gone round. Be the first to contribute! New York, NY, Ages 12-17: Camp Broadway Ensemble @ Carnegie Hall Twelve thousand. You killed the boy to steal this letter from the mail-bags---you stole this letter, that the money should not arrive in time to save the Octoroon; had it done so, the lien on the estate would have ceased, and Zoe be free. I am free! Come along; she har what we say, and she's cryin' for us. that's right. What am goin' to cum ob us! Omnes. Come, Paul, are you ready? And we all got rich from it, so, you know, there's a benefit from it. [*Seizes whip, and holds*Paul. Bah! side.---A table and chairs,R.C. Gracediscovered sitting at breakfast-table with Children. But don't mount to nuffin---kin work cannel. Well, he lived in New York by sittin' with his heels up in front of French's Hotel, and inventin'---. Ratts. gib it to ole Pete! dat right! Hello, Pete, I never heard of that affair. Alas! Am I late? Lafouche. [Opens it.] Pete. Dora. you seen dem big tears in his eyes. 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. O, that's it, is it? Mr. Scudder, take us with you---Mr. Peyton is so slow, there's no getting him, on. Mrs. P.[Embracing him.] My darling! Now, take care what you do. Denora Boone, Everybody who went to Vietnam carries his or her own version of the war. Excuse me; one of the principal mortgagees has made the demand. Hi! How can you ask that vulgar ruffian to your table? Ask him, I want to know; don't say I told you to inquire, but find out. Zoe. George. Zoe. Hold on yere, George Peyton; you sit down there. No, it won't; we have confessed to Dora that we love each other. I heard voices. George, dear George, do you love me? Let him answer for the boy, then. Ah! So I came here to you; to you, my own dear nurse; to you, who so often hushed me to sleep when I was a child; who dried my eyes and put your little Zoe to rest. Boucicault's manuscript actually reads "Indian, French and 'Merican." [To the men.] I had but one Master on earth, and he has given me my freedom! Ya! And twenty thousand bid. How would you like to rule the house of the richest planter on Atchafalaya---eh? [Fire seen,R.]. he's coming this way, fighting with his Injiun. M'Closky. M'Closky. It's near that now, and there's still the sugar-houses to be inspected. Be calm---darn the things; the proceeds of this sale won't cover the debts of the estate. O, get out. M'Closky. Ask the color in your face; d'ye think I can't read you, like a book? What, on Terrebonne? 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