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For several minutes the two stood glaring at each other with glittering eyes and gleaming teeth. "Rans Vane, I swore I'd git even with ye fur all you did agin' me and mine ten year ago. I reckin you're gittin' a leetle o' the sufferin " "Stop," hoarsely. "No I won't. I want ye ter know that I hain't forgot. I know'd you'n the gal came West arter the ole man died, but I didn't know whar.
He stands there with his mouth open, gawpin' at me, and tryin' to figure out what's broke loose; so I pushes to the front and helps him out. "There's a bunch of also rans out there, Mr. Pepper," says I, "that don't know when to fade. They're just grouchy because I've swiped the job." I was lookin' for him to sit up at that; but he don't. "What makes you think that you've got it!" says he.
Young Vane recognized him as Bordine, and he was anxious to secure his assistance in securing the tramp. "Let go, Rans, I must be traveling." "But wait. Will you testify to what you have jast said?" "Mebbe." "Then remain " "Let go, I tell ye." Vane, however, still clung to the arm of Jounce. The latter became angry, and flung him off furiously. "Help! Murder!" shouted Vane. "Take that, you fool!"
Still at times the grim cynicism of the whole thing comes over one with a rush, and one laughs. It is the only solution laughter. Let us blot it out, all this strange performance in France: let us eat, drink and be merry. But some quotations are better not finished. . . . "Come and join us at our table." A girl was speaking, an awfully dear girl, one to whom I had been among the many "also rans."
The "Rans de Vaches," the most celebrated of all local airs, is tame and commonplace, unmelodious, to all ears but those of the Swiss "forlorn in a foreign land."
One o' the Victims gives him his licks. They a' bide in the caravan. You can stand on the wheel and keek in. They had herrings wi' the rans to their tea. I cut a hole in Jerusalem and Back, and there was no Jerusalem there. The man as ocht Jerusalem greets because the Fair Circassian winna take him. He is biding a' night wi' Blinder. He likes a dram in his tea."
Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and others savage or barbarous, so my field was, though not in a bad sense, a half-cultivated field. They were beans cheerfully returning to their wild and primitive state that I cultivated, and my hoe played the Rans des Vaches for them.
Bee assumed her most Park Lane air, and replied: "I don't know what you mean, Aubrey." Then to avoid further pleasantries, Mary standing in the doorway, I marshalled them all out to the table. Flora was between Aubrey and Artie, but I put Cary on the other side of Artie, while I took Jimmie by me, and mercilessly handed Mrs. Jimmie over to the "also rans."
You called me lazy then, Rans Vane, and you struck me, yes you did, and don't you remember, I swore I'd get even? More, you insulted my sister by speakin' ill of her, and that chit of a gal, Miss Victory, laughed. I was mad " "You are Perry Jounce." "That's it the fust time guessin'." "And you have come to this. I knew you would never amount to anything, even if you did have a smart sister."
All the wonderful schemes of reform are for the glory of the schemer first, with the happy recipients amongst the also rans." She paused a moment, and a sudden tender look came into her eyes. "Of course there are exceptions. There's a boy I know he's a cousin of mine with weak lungs. Rejected for the Army three times as totally unfit.
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