One Hundred Years of Solitude

because he had given her what she called a low-life sickness. He also told him how Pilar Ternera ...

and stayed with her until his death. Her name was Petra Cotes. She had arrived in Macondo in the middle ...

generous heart and a magnificent vocation for love. When Úrsula realized that José Arcadio Segun ...

again would be called Aureliano or José Arcadio. Yet when Aureliano Segundo had his first son she did not da ...

integrity of character, and her mental balance intact. No one would be better able than she to shape the ...

promised solemnly. And if God gives me life hell be Pope someday. They all laughed when they ...

To the health of the Pope, Aureliano Segundo toasted. The guests toasted in a chorus. Then the man of ...

scandalized. Since Aureliano Segundo had taken charge of the house those festivities were a common thing, ...

his hogs fattened with such speed that no one could explain such disorderly fecundity except through ...

more he was convinced that his lucky star was not a matter of his conduct but an influence of Petr ...

Fernanda. Solid, monumental like his grandfathers, but with a joie de vivre and an irresistible good ...

Like all the good things that occurred in his long life, that tremendous fortune had its or ...

days, and frolicking there until dawn. That woman has been your ruination, Úrsula would shout at ...

was unable to understand his brothers passion. He remembered Petra Cotes as an ordinary woman, rather lazy ...

underneath her, during a night of feverish license. When Colonel Aureliano Buendía opened up his worksh ...

the inconceivable patience of disillusionment, were slowly being converted into golden scales. The work ...

time to sell the tickets for the raffle. At first Aureliano Segundo did not notice the alarming proport ...

opened the door and saw the courtyard paved with rabbits, blue in the glow of dawn. Petra Cotes, dyi ...

courtyard, Petra Cotes exchanged the rabbits for a cow, who two months later gave birth to ...

release his good humor. Cease, cows, life is short, he would shout. Úrsula wondered what entanglements ...