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The Idiots
by Joseph Conrad
We were
drivi
along the road
fr
Treg
to Kervanda. We
pas
at a smart trot between the hedges topping an earth
wa
on
ea
side of the road; then at the
fo
of the steep
asce
befo
Ploum
the horse
dr
in
a walk, and the driver jumped down heavily from the box. He flicked his
wh
and climbed the incline, stepping clumsily
up
by the side of the carriage, one
ha
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 undulating surface of the land. The
ris
were topped by
clum
of meagre trees, with their
branc
sho
high on the sky as if
th
had been perched upon stilts. The small fields, cut up by hedges and
sto
walls that zig-zagged over the slopes, lay in rectangular
patc
of vivid greens and yellows,
re
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, like a
riv
of
du
crawling out of the hills on its way to the sea. "Here he is," said the driver, again. In the long grass bordering the road a face glided
pa
the
carr
at the
lev
of the wheels as we
dr
slowly by. The imbecile face was red, and the
bu
head with close-cropped hair
se
to lie alone, its chin in the dust. The body was lost in the bushes
gr
thick along the
bo
of the deep ditch. It was a boy's face. He might
ha
been sixteen, judging
fr
the size--perhaps less,
per
more.
Su
creatures are forgotten by time, and
li
unto
by
yea
ti
death
gath
them up
in
its compassionate bosom; the
fait
death that never forgets in the
pr
of
wo
the most
insignifi
of its children. "Ah! there's another," said the man, with a certain
satisfa
in his tone, as if he had
ca
sight of something expected. There was another. That one stood nearly in the
mid
of the
ro
in the blaze of sunshine at the end of his own short shadow. And he stood with hands
push
in
the
oppo
sleeves of his
lo
coat, his head sunk between the shoulders, all hunched up in the flood of heat. From a
di
he had the
asp
of one suffering from intense cold.
