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The Idiots
by Joseph Conrad
We were
driv
along the
ro
from
Tregui
to Kervanda. We passed at a smart trot between the hedges
topp
an earth wall on each side of the road; then at the foot of the steep ascent before Ploumar the
hor
dropped
in
a walk, and the driver jumped down heavily from the box. He flicked his whip and climbed the incline, stepping clumsily uphill by the side of the carriage, one
ha
on the footboard, his
ey
on the ground. After a
whi
he
li
his head, pointed up the
ro
with the end of the whip, and said-- "The idiot!" The sun was shining violently
up
the undulating surface of the land. The rises
we
topped by
cl
of
meag
trees,
wi
the
bra
showing high on the sky as if they had been perched upon stilts. The small fields, cut up by hedges and stone walls that zig-zagged over the slopes, lay in rectangular
pa
of
viv
gr
and yellows,
resembl
the
uns
daubs of a naive picture. And the landscape was divided in two by the white streak of a road stretching in long loops far away, like a river of
du
crawling out of the hills on its way to the sea. "Here he is,"
sa
the driver, again. In the long
gr
bordering the road a
fa
gli
past the
carria
at the
le
of the
wh
as we
dr
slowly by. The imbecile
fa
was red, and the bullet head
wi
close-cropped
ha
see
to lie alone, its
ch
in the dust. The body was
lo
in the
bus
gro
thick
al
the bottom of the deep ditch. It was a boy's face. He might have been sixteen, judging from the size--perhaps less, perhaps more. Such creatures are forgotten by time, and
li
untouched by years till death gathers them up into its
compassio
bosom; the faithful
dea
that
ne
forgets in the press of work the most insignificant of its children. "Ah! there's another,"
sa
the man,
wi
a
ce
satisfaction in his tone, as if he had caught sight of something expected. There was another.
Th
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
wi
ha
pushed
in
the opposite
slee
of his long coat, his
he
sunk between the shoulders, all hunched up in the flood of heat. From a distance he had the
as
of one
suff
from
int
cold.
