 | Arthur Hobson Quinn - American drama - 1916 - 1008 pages
...dark, fatal mark. Do you know what that is? GEORGE. No. ZOE. That is the ineffaceable curse of Cain. Of the blood that feeds my heart, one drop in eight...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... | |
 | Arthur Hobson Quinn - American drama - 1917 - 1072 pages
...dark, fatal mark. Do you know what that is? GEORGE. No. ZOE. That is the ineffaceable curse of Cain. Of the blood that feeds my heart, one drop in eight...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... | |
 | Peter Thomson - Literary Collections - 1984 - 260 pages
...fatal mark. Do you know what that is? GEORGE: No. ZOE: That - that is the ineffacable curse of Cain. Of the blood that feeds my heart, one drop in eight...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,... | |
 | William L. Van Deburg - African Americans - 1984 - 284 pages
...Boucicault's Louisiana plantation drama, The Octoroon (1859), the prognosis for such a condition was bleak: Of the blood that feeds my heart, one drop in eight...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... | |
 | Jacquelyn Y. McLendon - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 182 pages
...self-loathing. Dion Boucicault's Zoe, in The Octoroon or Life in Louisiana (1851), epitomizes this view: "Of the blood that feeds my heart, one drop in eight...rest may be, that one drop poisons all the flood" (154). In texts such as this, the octoroon usually confesses that she has "black" blood, and here again... | |
 | Naomi Zack - Social Science - 1995 - 410 pages
...The Tragic Mulatto as a Type Character Freda Scott Giles That is the uneffaceable curse of Cain ... Of the blood that feeds my heart, one drop in eight is black . . . that one drop poisons all the flood ... for I'm an unclean thing — forbidden by the laws. —... | |
 | Joseph R. Roach - Education - 1996 - 356 pages
...dark, fatal mark. Do you know what that is? GEORGE: No. ZOE: That is the ineffaceable curse of Cain. Of the blood that feeds my heart, one drop in eight...yours — hope like yours — ambition like yours — life hung with passions like dew-drops in the morning flowers; but the one black drop gives me... | |
 | William L. Van Deburg - Social Science - 2008 - 314 pages
...Boucicault's Louisiana plantation drama 77tc Octoroon (1 859), the prognosis for this condition was bleak: Of the blood that feeds my heart, one drop in eight...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... | |
 | Della Pollock - History - 1998 - 412 pages
...dark, fatal mark. Do you know what that is? George: No. Zoe: That is the ineffaceable curse of Cain. Of the blood that feeds my heart, one drop in eight...like yours— hope like yours — ambition like yours — life hung with passions like dew-drops in the morning flowers; but the one black drop gives me... | |
 | Nicholas Mirzoeff - Art and society - 1999 - 566 pages
...bluish tinge?" This mark is also apparent in her eyes and hair: "That is the ineffaceable curse of Cain. 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" (Boucicault 1987: 154).... | |
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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... 
