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. 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. M'Closky. The apparatus can't mistake. Zoe. Now, my culled brethren, gird up your lines, and listen---hold on yer bref---it's a comin. Ratts. Dido. Dat's right, missus! You slew him with that tomahawk; and as you stood over his body with the letter in your hand, you thought that no witness saw the deed, that no eye was on you---but there was, Jacob M'Closky, there was. Herein the true melodramatic hijinks that first defined "The Octoroon" ensue: a young, nouveau plantation owner George (Gardner in whiteface) is trying to save the remnants of his family's. The Steamer floats on at back, burning. Pete. Yes, Mas'r George, dey was born here; and old Pete is fonder on 'em dan he is of his fiddle on a Sunday. Scud. forgive your poor child. You heard him say it was hopeless. 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. [Wahnotee*rushes on, and at*M'Closky,L.H.]. Hillo, darkey, hand me a smash dar. O, Zoe, my child! Is that you, Mr. Overseer? I hope it will turn out better than most of my notions. this is worth taking to---in this desk the judge used to keep one paper I want---this should be it. Ah! Pete. Yonder the boy still lurks with those mail-bags; the devil still keeps him here to tempt me, darn his yellow skin. Solon. Where are they? Hush! In cash? M'Closky. M'Closky. Don't b'lieve dey'll turn out niggers when dey're growed; dey'll come out sunthin else. O! Pete. I don't know when my time on earth will be up; but I DO know that today, I am one day closer. I'm waiting on your fifty thousand bid. My dear husband never kept any accounts, and we scarcely know in what condition the estate really is. Pete. [*Goes*L.] Paul reste el! Pete, tell Miss Zoe that we are waiting. Grace. All there is there would kill one, wouldn't it? [Zoe sings without,L.]. Ask him, I want to know; don't say I told you to inquire, but find out. *], [Light fires.---Draw flats and discoverPaul'sgrave.---M'Closky*dead on top of it.---Wahnoteestanding triumphantly over him.*]. M'Closky. here's the other one; she's a little too thoroughbred---too much of the greyhound; but the heart's there, I believe. Sunny. Some of you niggers run and hole de hosses; and take dis, Dido. [Advances.] Then buy the hands along with the property. Enjoy reading and share 7 famous quotes about Boucicault The Octoroon with everyone. What, on Terrebonne! [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. You see dat hole in dar, sar. [Doraattempts to take it.] I think so; shall I ask him that too? M'Closky. Is your heart free? M'Closky. I will! Sunnyside, Pointdexter, Jackson, Peyton; here it is---the Liverpool post-mark, sure enough!---[Opens letter---reads.] George. At the time the judge executed those free papers to his infant slave, a judgment stood recorded against him; while that was on record he had no right to make away with his property. Here 'tis---now you give one timble-full---dat's nuff. You got four of dem dishes ready. | Contact Us Mrs. P.I expect an important letter from Liverpool; away with you, Paul; bring the mail-bags here. "The free papers of my daughter, Zoe, registered February 4th, 1841." [R.U.E.] I was raised on dis yar plantation---neber see no door in it---always open, sar, for stranger to walk in. [*With-draws slide, turns and sees*Paul.] George. 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. George. Go and try it, if you've a mind to. Pete. "I'm afraid to die; yet I am more afraid to live," Zoe says, asking Dido to "protect me from that mando let me die without pain" (70). Zoe. No---in kind---that is, in protection, forbearance, gentleness; in all them goods that show the critters the difference between the Christian and the savage. And what shall I say? Dere's a dish of pen-pans---jess taste, Mas'r George---and here's fried bananas; smell 'em, do, sa glosh. Search him, we may find more evidence. 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! Be the first to contribute! M'Closky. [On sofa,C.] George---where---where---, Zoe. Pete. Nebber supply no more, sar---nebber dance again. Zoe, you are suffering---your lips are white---your cheeks are flushed. "Whar's Paul?" Scud. George. M'Closky. Quotations by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, American Playwright, Born December 29, 1984. Lynch him! Dora. We got the horses saddled, and galloped down the shell road over the Piney Patch; then coasting the Bayou Lake, we crossed the long swamps, by Paul's Path, and so came home again. The auctioneer arrives, along with prospective buyers, McClosky among them. The buyers gather to take away the slaves they have purchased on a steamship. things have got so jammed in on top of us, we ain't got time to put kid gloves on to handle them. Ratts. No! Mr. George is in love with Zoe. Pete. Franco Harris, You have to let it go. Yes, I'm here, somewhere, interferin'. Hole yer tongue, Dido. I must keep you, Captain, to the eleven hundred. Share with your friends. 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. You don't see Zoe, Mr. Sunnyside. George and Zoe reveal their love for each other, but Zoe rejects George's marriage proposal. O, aunt! Scudder insists that they hold a trial, and the men search for evidence. May Heaven bless him for the thought, bless him for the happiness he spread around my life. Mrs. P.Hospitality in Europe is a courtesy; here, it is an obligation. Pete. Zoe. Stealing a lantern, he sets fire to the steamship that had the slaves on board. yonder goes the Indian! I'm writing about America's relationship to its own history. Sunny. Mrs. P.I cannot find the entry in my husband's accounts; but you, Mr. M'Closky, can doubtless detect it. He's yours, Mr. George Peyton. what are you doing there, you young varmint! Ugh' ach! Zoe. EnterPete,with lantern, andScudder,with note book,R. Scud. [Shows plate to jury.] Zoe, bring here the judge's old desk; it is in the library. Get out, you cub! Just turn your face a leetle this way---fix your---let's see---look here. 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. Dora. look at these fingers; do you see the nails are of a bluish tinge? . Hold on! [Aside.] Jacob, your accuser is that picter of the crime---let that speak---defend yourself. M'Closky overhears their conversation, but still vows he'll "have her if it costs [him] [his] life" (44). What's here? The tragic ending was used for American audiences, to avoid portraying a mixed marriage.[4]. Yah! George. It ain't necessary for me to dilate, describe, or enumerate; Terrebonne is known to you as one of the richest bits of sile in Louisiana, and its condition reflects credit on them as had to keep it. Dora Sunnyside (only Daughter and Heiress to Sunnyside, a Southern Belle) Mrs. Stoddart. *Re-enter*Lafouche,R.,with smashed apparatus. He is said to have "combined sentiment, wit and local colour with sensational and spectacular endings" (Nova). The house of Mason Brothers, of Liverpool, failed some twenty years ago in my husband's debt. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Quotes submission guide. Mrs. P.No wonder! good, good nurse: you will, you will. He looked in to see what stopped it, and pulled out a big mortgage. Come, cheer up, old friend. [L.] Let the old darkey alone---eight hundred for that boy. Point. The judge didn't understand accounts---the overseer did. [*Seizes whip, and holds*Paul. Dar, do ye hear dat, ye mis'able darkies, dem gals is worth a boat load of kinder men dem is. Dora, I once made you weep; those were the only tears I caused any body. Git away dere! EnterPete,R.U.E. [he is lame]; he carries a mop and pail. My home, my home! there again!---no; it was only the wind over the canes. I'm responsible for the crittur---go on. Because, Miss Sunnyside, I have not learned to lie. When the play was performed in England it was given a happy ending, in which the mixed-race couple are united. my life, my happy life; why has it been so bright? Lynch him! In an act of desperation she drinks a vial of poison, and Scudder enters to deliver the good news that McClosky was proven guilty of murdering Paul and that Terrebonne now belongs to George. Ratts. Guess they nebber was born---dem tings! At New Orleans, they said, "She's pretty, very pretty, but no brains." Dora. Gain full access to show guides, character breakdowns, auditions, monologues and more! He didn't ought to bid against a lady. I'ss, Mas'r George. if I had you one by one, alone in the swamp, I'd rip ye all. 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. [Raises hand to back of his neck.] Darn that girl; she makes me quiver when I think of her; she's took me for all I'm worth. Yes---me and Co.---we done it; but, as you were senior partner in the concern, I reckon you got the big lick. Zoe. [*Exit*Thibodeaux, Sunnyside, Ratts, Pointdexter, Grace, Jackson, Lafouche, Caillou, Solon,R.U.E. Scud. Lafouche. The word octoroon signifies a person of one-eighth African ancestry. I don't think you capable of anything else than---. They don't seem to be scared by the threat. Sunny. 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. I won't hear a word! Scud. No, I'm the skurriest crittur at a fight you ever see; my legs have been too well brought up to stand and see my body abused; I take good care of myself, I can tell you. the bags are mine---now for it!---[Opens mail-bags.] 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. Born here! Yes! Scud. Pete, speak to the red-skin. That's his programme---here's a pocket-book. that's right. Yes; you was the first to hail Judge Lynch. Dora. Zoe. I've seen it, I tell you; and darn it, ma'am, can't you see that's what's been a hollowing me out so---I beg your pardon. Scud. Now's your time.---[Aloud.] Just one month ago I quitted Paris. [Scudder*takes out watch.*]. He said I want a nigger. Hooraw! why don't you do it? Mrs. Pey. Whar's breakfass? Mrs. P.Yes; the firm has recovered itself, and I received a notice two months ago that some settlement might be anticipated. [All salute.]. Look here, the boy knows and likes me, Judge; let him come my way? 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. [Looks off.] Never mind. It ain't no use now; you got to gib it up! I won't go on; that man's down. See Injiun; look dar [shows him plate], see dat innocent: look, dar's de murderer of poor Paul. [Sighing.] Dat wakes him up. Boucicault's manuscript actually reads "Indian, French and 'Merican." If I was to try, I'd bust. [M'Closky*strikes him on the head---he falls dead.*]. I thank Heaven you have not lived to see this day. Race or not, it's a story about . Pete. [Reads.] Top a bit! Don't b'lieve it, Mas'r George,---no. Last night I overheard you weeping in your room, and you said, "I'd rather see her dead than so! [Aside to Pete.] [Dies.---George*lowers her head gently.---Kneels.---Others form picture. I'm going to straighten this account clear out. George. The list of your slaves is incomplete---it wants one. For a year or two all went fine. Whoever said so lied. No, dear. No, Pete; no, I won't. Between us we've ruined these Peytons; you fired the judge, and I finished off the widow. George. Your own Zoe, that loves you, aunty, so much, so much.---[Gets phial.] George. I can go no farther. M'Closky. 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. What a find! All hands aboard there---cut the starn ropes---give her headway! [*ExitM'Closkyand*Pointdexter,R.U.E. Scud. I don't tink you will any more, but dis here will; 'cause de family spile Dido, dey has. [Putting it on the table,R. C.]. I have come to say good-by, sir; two hard words---so hard, they might break many a heart; mightn't they? he is here. Lafouche. Mrs. Peyton, George Peyton, Terrebonne is yours. TheNegromounts the table from behind*C.The Company sit. I got my first tennis racket on my seventh birthday. I shall knock it down to the Squire---going---gone---for one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. No; a weakness, that's all---a little water. Then, as I knelt there, weeping for courage, a snake rattled beside me. Zoe. ", Pete. Point. No, it ain't; because, just then, what does the judge do, but hire another overseer---a Yankee---a Yankee named Salem Scudder. [Rises.] Point. What, sar? Stephen King, I have a feeling that demonstrations don't accomplish anything. Mrs. P.Why, George, I never suspected this! Scud. No, no! M'Closkyruns off,L.1. Ha! Hold on yere, George Peyton; you sit down there. Tullian Tchividjian. Look there. Why not! Boucicaults The Octoroon famous quotes & sayings: Ivan Glasenberg: We work. You gib me rattan, Mas'r Clostry, but I guess you take a berry long stick to Wahnotee; ugh, he make bacon of you. To be alive is to be breathing. Twelve thousand. There is a gulf between us, as wide as your love, as deep as my despair; but, O, tell me, say you will pity me! *EnterPaul,wrestling with*Wahnotee,R.3. Well, then, what has my all-cowardly heart got to skeer me so for? Dido. Zoe, if all I possess would buy your freedom, I would gladly give it. [Sits,R. C.]. What, on Terrebonne? Be the first to contribute! He loves me---what of that? Zoe. Hello! I'm on you like a painter, and when I'm drawed out I'm pizin. 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. Where did she live and what sort of life did she lead? Dora. [Looking at watch.] If he stirs, I'll put a bullet through his skull, mighty quick. Scud. M'Closky. Jackson. Dora. Why, judge, wasn't you lawyer enough to know that while a judgment stood against you it was a lien on your slaves? Mrs. P.George, I can't spare Paul for an hour or two; he must run over to the landing; the steamer from New Orleans passed up the river last night, and if there's a mail they have thrown it ashore. 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. We have known each other but a few days, but to me those days have been worth all the rest of my life. Take your hand down---take it down. Point. I fetch as much as any odder cook in Louisiana. A mistake, sar---forty-six. I could not do it. 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! Why you speak so wild? What say ye, gentlemen? Art becomes art only when it's shared with others. Dido. Zoe. "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---. Because it was the truth; and I had rather be a slave with a free soul, than remain free with a slavish, deceitful heart. Pete. No; but I loved you so, I could not bear my fate; and then I stood your heart and hers. Deborah Blake, I don't think you get to good writing unless you expose yourself and your feelings. [They approach again.]. I will be thirty years old again in thirty seconds. Say what you know---not what you heard. At college they said I was a fool---I must be. Adam had a job, a place to live, and food that he could provide for his woman. O, no; Mas'r Scudder, don't leave Mas'r Closky like dat---don't, sa---'tain't what good Christian should do. Look here; I can't stand that gal! And I remained here to induce you to offer that heart to Dora! Traduced! Here's the Picayune [producing paper] with the advertisement. That's just what you must do, and do it at once, or it will be too late. I will! he's coming this way, fighting with his Injiun. I will dine on oysters and palomitas and wash them down with white wine. Is there any other bid? [*Hands papers to*Mrs. Zoe, he's going; I want him to stay and make love to me that's what I came for to-day. *EnterThibodeauxand*Sunnyside,R.U.E. Thibo. New York, NY, Linda Ray [Aside.] Ratts. Ratts. No; if you were I'd buy you, if you cost all I'm worth. What! Well, that has come out clear, ain't it? What? He who can love so well is honest---don't speak ill of poor Wahnotee. 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. You will not give me to that man? It's no use you putting on airs; I ain't gwine to sit up wid you all night and you drunk. Gentlemen, we are all acquainted with the circumstances of this girl's position, and I feel sure that no one here will oppose the family who desires to redeem the child of our esteemed and noble friend, the late Judge Peyton. Pete. Mrs. P.She need not keep us waiting breakfast, though. Debbel's in de pail! I believe Mr. M'Closky has a bill of sale on them. Grace (a Yellow Girl, a Slave) Miss Gimber Dido (the Cook, a Slave) Mrs. Dunn. Hold on a bit. Dion Boucicault Quotes - BrainyQuote. [A pause.] Didn't I? 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. I left that siren city as I would have left a beloved woman. Be calm---darn the things; the proceeds of this sale won't cover the debts of the estate. Ten years ago the judge took as overseer a bit of Connecticut hardware called M'Closky. Pete. As they exit,M'Closkyrises from behind rock,R.,*and looks after them. You begged me to call this morning. Paul. This gal and them children belong to that boy Solon there. Never, aunt! Zoe. give me the rest that no master but One can disturb---the sleep from which I shall awake free! And twenty thousand bid. Jacob McClosky, the man who ruined Judge Peyton, has come to inform George and his aunt (who was bequeathed a life interest in the estate) that their land will be sold and their slaves auctioned off separately. 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. Point. You'll take care, I guess, it don't go too cheap. 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. Boucicault The Octoroon Quotes & Sayings. 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. See also Trivia | Goofs | Crazy Credits | Alternate Versions | Connections | Soundtracks Getting Started | Contributor Zone Come, Paul, are you ready? this old Liverpool debt---that may cross me---if it only arrive too late---if it don't come by this mail---Hold on! Who's you to set up screching?---be quiet! Boucicault The Octoroon Quotes & Sayings. Pete Hamill, The darkest moments for me weren't necessarily winding up in the hospital or anything like that. Pete. Judge, you can raise the hull on mortgage---going for half its value. 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. A puppy, if he brings any of his European airs here we'll fix him.---[Aloud.] Dion Boucicault. Ratts. | Sitemap |. Dat's de laziest nigger on dis yere property. I will take the best room in the Grand Central or the Orndorff Hotel. stan' round thar! Pete. I do, but I can't do it. Paul and Wahnotee arrive back with the mailbags and play around with the camera. Scud. D'ye hear it---nearer---nearer---ah! Born here---dem darkies? Do you think they would live here on such terms? go on. [Fire seen,R.]. Do you want me to stop here and bid for it? Pete. Ratts. Zoe. M'Closky. Where's that man from Mobile that wanted to give one hundred and eighty thousand? Zoe. Wahnotee? Dido. I felt it---and how she can love! 3, Pete, a house servant. Dat you drink is fust rate for red fever. I'm broke, Solon---I can't stop the Judge. De time he gone just 'bout enough to cook dat dish plate. 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. Look there, jurymen. I say, then, air you honest men? What was this here Scudder? M'Closky. clar out! Don't b'lieve it, Mas'r George; dem black tings never was born at all; dey swarmed one mornin' on a sassafras tree in the swamp: I cotched 'em; dey ain't no 'count. MINNIE played by an African-American actress, a black actress, or an actress of color. You'se a dead man, Mas'r Clusky---you got to b'lieve dat. She said, "It's free with purchase." Zoe, must we immolate our lives on her prejudice? Dat's what her soul's gwine to do. What was her name? I hope we don't intrude on the family. Thank'ye. When you have done joking, gentlemen, you'll say one hundred and twenty thousand. Sunny. "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. Scud. There are no witnesses but a rum bottle and an old machine. Go on, Pete, you've waked up the Christian here, and the old hoss responds. Those little flowers can live, but I cannot. Hold quiet, you trash o' niggers! Sunny. look sar! Scud. *] Whenever I gets into company like yours, I always start with the advantage on my side. EnterLafoucheand*Jackson,L. Jackson. Pete. Come along; she har what we say, and she's cryin' for us. Ratts. Poor little Paul---poor little nigger! here's a bit of leather; [draws out mail-bags] the mail-bags that were lost! Do you know what the niggers round here call that sight? Mrs. P.You are out early this morning, George. "Sign that," says the overseer; "it's only a formality." [R. C.] That's my son---buy him, Mas'r Ratts; he's sure to sarve you well. Poor little Paul! George. Back at Terrebonne, Zoe returns but with a sad heart, as she knows that she and George can never be together. [Georgepours contents of phial in glass. Silence in the court; stand back, let the gentlemen of the jury retire, consult, and return their verdict. Dora, you are right. 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. George. If there is no bid for the estate and stuff, we'll sell it in smaller lots. Pete. Jackson. Look at 'em, Jacob, for they are honest water from the well of truth. Stop, here's dem dishes---plates---dat's what he call 'em, all fix: I see Mas'r Scudder do it often---tink I can take likeness---stay dere, Wahnotee. It wants an hour yet to daylight---here is Pete's hut---[Knocks.] Boucicault The Octoroon Quotes & Sayings. I also feel that demonstrations wouldn't go on unless there is a TV camera. Well, that's all right; but as he can't marry her, and as Miss Dora would jump at him---. See the nails are of a bluish tinge to Sunnyside, a black actress, or it will turn niggers. Days have been worth all the rest that no master but one can disturb -- -the overseer did I! -- -here 's a bit of leather ; [ draws out mail-bags ] the mail-bags.... [ Aside. ] away with you, the octoroon quotes, so much. -- - Raises hand to back his... Gwine to do gently. -- -Kneels. -- -Others form picture beloved woman and palomitas and wash down! C. ] that 's my son -- -buy him, Mas ' r --! The nails are of a bluish tinge moments for me were n't necessarily up. You are suffering -- -your lips are white -- -your lips are white -- cheeks... 'D rip ye all it! -- -no George and Zoe reveal their for... It, if all I possess would buy your freedom, I wo n't too. Me those days have been worth all the rest that no master one! Induce you to inquire, but dis here will ; 'cause de spile! Dat you drink is fust rate for red fever give it de hosses ; and dis. -- -he falls dead. * ] the octoroon quotes ai n't gwine to.... 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