Of the blood that feeds my heart, one drop in eight is black ā bright red as the rest may be, that one drop poisons all the flood; those seven bright drops give me love like yours… |
Zoe: That ā that is the ineffaceable curse of Cain. Of the blood that feeds my heart, one drop in eight is black ā bright red as the rest may be, that one drop poisons all the flood; those seven bright drops give me love like yours ā hope like yours ā ambition like yours ā life hung with passions like dewdrops on the morning flowers; but the one black drop gives me despair, for Iām an unclean thing ā forbidden by the laws ā Iām an Octoroon!
Dion Boucicault, The Octoroon: A Play, in Four Acts, (First Performed at the Winter Garden Theatre, New York, December, 1859), Act I.Ā http://www2.latech.edu/~bmagee/louisiana_anthology/texts/boucicault/boucicault–octaroon.html.
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