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The Idiots
by Joseph Conrad
We
we
driving along the road
fr
Treguier to Kervanda. We passed at a smart trot
be
the hedges topping an earth
wa
on
ea
side of the road; then at the foot of the
ste
as
before Ploumar the horse dropped into a walk, and the driver jumped down heavily
fr
the box. He
flic
his whip and climbed the incline, stepping clumsily
uph
by the side of the carriage, one hand on the footboard, his eyes on the ground. After a
whi
he lifted his head, pointed up the
ro
with the end of the whip, and said-- "The idiot!" The sun was shining violently upon the
und
surface of the land. The rises
we
topped by clumps of meagre trees,
wi
the
branc
showing high on the sky as if they had been
pe
up
stilts. The
sma
fields, cut up by hedges and stone walls that zig-zagged over the slopes, lay in rectangular patches of vivid
gr
and yellows,
res
the unskilful daubs of a naive picture. And the
landsc
was divided in two by the white streak of a
ro
stretc
in
lo
loops far away,
li
a river of dust crawling out of the hills on its way to the sea. "Here he is," said the driver, again. In the
lo
grass
borde
the road a face glided
pa
the
ca
at the
lev
of the
whe
as we drove slowly by. The imbecile face was red, and the bullet
he
with close-cropped hair
see
to lie alone, its chin in the dust. The body was
lo
in the
bush
gr
thi
along the bottom of the deep ditch. It was a boy's face. He might have
be
sixteen, judging from the size--perhaps less, perhaps more.
Su
creatures are forgotten by time, and live untouched by years till death gathers them up into its
compass
bosom; the faithful death that never forgets in the
pr
of
wo
the most
insig
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 stood nearly in the
midd
of the
ro
in the
bl
of
sunsh
at the end of his own
sh
shadow. And he stood with
han
pushed into the opposite sleeves of his
lo
coat, his head
su
between the shoulders, all
hun
up in the flood of heat. From a distance he had the aspect of one
suf
from intense cold.
