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The Idiots

by Joseph Conrad

We were driving al the road from Tregu to Kervanda. We passed at a smart trot between the hedg topping an ear wall on each si of the road; th at the foot of the steep ascent be Ploumar the horse dropped into a walk, and the driver jum down heavily from the box. He fli his whip and climbed the incline, stepping clumsily uphill by the si 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 ri were topp by clumps of meagre trees, with their branches show hi on the sky as if th had been pe upon stilts. The small fields, cut up by hedges and stone walls that zig-zagged over the slopes, lay in rectangular patches of vivid greens and yellows, resembl the unskilful daubs of a naive picture. And the landscape was divided in two by the white st of a road stretching in long loops far away, like a river of dust cr out of the hills on its way to the sea. "Here he is," said the driver, again. In the long grass bordering the ro a face glided pa the carriage at the lev of the wheels as we dro slowly by. The im face was red, and the bullet head wi close-cropped hair seem to lie alone, its chin in the dust. The body was lost in the bushes growing th along the bottom of the deep ditch. It was a boy's face. He might ha be sixteen, judging from the size--perhaps less, perhaps more. Su creatures are forgotten by time, and li unt by years till death gath them up in its compassion bosom; the faithful dea that ne forgets in the pr of wo the most insignificant of its children. "Ah! there's another," said the man, with a certain satisfaction in his tone, as if he had caught sight of something expected. There was another. That one stood nearly in the middle of the road in the bla of sunshine at the end of his own short shadow. And he st with ha pushed into the opp sleeves of his long coat, his head sunk between the shoulders, all hunc up in the flood of heat. Fr a distance he had the aspect of one suffering fr intense cold.