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The Idiots
by Joseph Conrad
We
we
driving
alo
the road from Treguier to Kervanda. We
pas
at a smart trot
betw
the
he
topping an
ear
wa
on each side of the road;
th
at the foot of the steep ascent
bef
Ploum
the
ho
dropped into a walk, and the driver
jum
down heavily from the box. He flicked his whip and climbed the incline,
st
clumsily uphill by the side of the carriage, one hand on the footboard, his eyes on the ground. After a while he lifted his head, pointed up the road with the end of the whip, and said-- "The idiot!" The sun was shining violently upon the undulating surface of the land. The rises were topped by
cl
of meagre trees, with their
bra
showing high on the sky as if they had been perched upon stilts. The
sma
fields, cut up by hedges and stone walls
th
zig-zagged
ov
the slopes, lay in rectangular
patch
of vivid greens and yellows, resembling the unskilful
da
of a naive picture. And the landscape was
divi
in two by the
whi
str
of a road stretching in
lo
loops far away, like a river of dust crawling out of the hills on its way to the sea. "Here he is,"
sa
the driver, again. In the long grass bordering the
ro
a face
gli
past the
carri
at the level of the
whe
as we
dr
slowly by. The imbecile face was red, and the bullet head
wi
close-cropped
ha
se
to lie alone, its chin in the dust. The
bo
was lost in the
bush
growing thick along the
bo
of the deep ditch. It was a boy's face. He might have been sixteen,
judg
fr
the size--perhaps less, perhaps more. Such creatures are
forg
by time, and live untouched by years till death gathers
th
up
in
its compassionate bosom; the faithful
dea
that never forgets in the
pre
of work the
mo
insignific
of its children. "Ah! there's another," said the man,
wi
a certain
sa
in his tone, as if he had caught
sig
of
some
expected. There was another. That one stood nearly in the
midd
of the road in the
bla
of sunshine at the end of his own short shadow. And he
st
wi
han
pushed into the opposite
sle
of his long coat, his head
su
between the shoulders, all
hun
up in the
flo
of heat. From a distance he had the aspect of one
su
from
in
cold.
