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The Idiots
by Joseph Conrad
We
we
driving along the road from
Tregui
to Kervanda. We passed at a smart trot between the hedges topping an
ear
wa
on each side of the road; then at the foot of the steep ascent before Ploumar the horse
dropp
in
a walk, and the
dri
jumped down heavily from the box. He flicked his
wh
and
clim
the incline, stepping 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,
poin
up the
ro
wi
the end of the whip, and said-- "The idiot!" The sun was shining
violent
up
the undulating
surf
of the land. The rises
we
topped by clumps of meagre trees, with
th
branches showing high on the sky as if they had been
pe
upon stilts. The
sma
fields, cut up by hedges and stone walls
th
zig-zagged over the slopes, lay in rectangular patches of vivid greens and yellows, resembling the unskilful daubs of a naive picture. And the landscape was divided in two by the
wh
streak of a road stretching in long 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 long
gr
bordering the road a face
glid
past the carriage at the level of the wheels as we
dr
slowly by. The
imb
face was red, and the bullet
he
with close-cropped hair seemed to lie alone, its chin in the dust. The body was lost in the bushes
gr
thick along the bottom of the deep ditch. It was a boy's face. He might have been sixteen, judging from the size--perhaps less,
per
more. Such creatures are forgotten by time, and
li
untouched by years till death
gath
them up
in
its compassionate bosom; the faithful death that
ne
forgets in the
pr
of work the
mo
insignificant of its children. "Ah! there's another," said the man, with a certain
satisf
in his tone, as if he had caught sight of
so
expected. There was another. That one stood
nea
in the middle of the road in the blaze of sunshine at the end of his own short shadow. And he stood with hands pushed into the opposite
sleev
of his long coat, his head
su
betw
the shoulders, all
hunc
up in the flood of heat.
Fr
a distance he had the aspect of one suffering
fr
intense cold.