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The Idiots
by Joseph Conrad
We
we
drivi
al
the road from Treguier to Kervanda. We passed at a
sm
trot
be
the hedges topping an
ea
wall on each side of the road; then at the foot of the steep ascent before
Ploum
the horse
dro
into a walk, and the
dri
jum
down heavily
fr
the box. He flicked his whip and climbed the incline,
ste
clumsily
uph
by the
si
of the carriage, one hand on the footboard, his eyes on the ground. After a while he lifted his head,
poin
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
topp
by
clu
of meagre trees, with their
br
showing high on the sky as if they had been
perch
upon stilts. The
sma
fields, cut up by hedges and stone
wal
that zig-zagged
ov
the slopes, lay in rectangular
pat
of vivid greens and yellows, resembling the
uns
da
of a naive picture. And the landscape was divided in two by the white
st
of a road stretching in long loops far away,
li
a river of
du
crawling out of the hills on its way to the sea. "Here he is," said the driver, again. In the
lo
grass bordering the
ro
a face
gli
pa
the carriage at the level of the wheels as we
dr
slowly by. The imbecile face was red, and the
bu
head with close-cropped hair seemed to lie alone, its chin in the dust. The
bo
was lost in the
bus
growing thick
alo
the
bott
of the deep ditch. It was a boy's face. He might have been sixteen, judging
fr
the size--perhaps less, perhaps more. Such
creatu
are
for
by time, and live
unto
by years
ti
dea
gathers them up into its
compassi
bosom; the faithful death that never forgets in the
pre
of work the most
insignif
of its children. "Ah! there's another,"
sa
the man,
wi
a certain satisfaction in his tone, as if he had caught sight of something expected. There was another.
Th
one
st
nearly in the
midd
of the road in the blaze of
sun
at the end of his own short shadow. And he stood with hands
pu
into the opposite sleeves of his long coat, his head sunk
be
the shoulders, all hunched up in the flood of heat. From a distance he had the aspect of one suffering from intense cold.
