One Hundred Years of Solitude

this for the sugar which sweetened less every day, and this for the lumber which was still wet ...

sold. Those rites of poverty were so pure that they nearly always set aside the largest share ...

and never did, to the point where on a certain occasion they resigned themselves to eating crumbs ...

out trying to get just enough to live with. During the waking hours when the accounts were bad. th ...

cents for a raffle of six hens. Aureliano Segundo thought without saying so that the evil was not in the ...

because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. Petra Cotes, for her part, ...

and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to fund the paradise of shared s ...

dogs. The raffles never got very far. At first Aureliano Segundo would spend three days of the wee ...

printed numbers and the name that Petra Cotes thought good to call the business: Divine Provide ...

substitute riddles for the numbers so that the prize could be shared by all of those who guessed ...

children. Fernanda put Amaranta Úrsula in a small private school where they admitted only six girls ...

pinned to Aurelianos clothing when they brought him to the house he was registered as a foundling. So he rema ...

clairvoyant look that the colonel had at his age, his look was blinking and somewhat distract ...

through the pictures in the encyclopedia. Úrsula found him there one afternoon when she was going about ...

And now its time for you to start learning how to be a silversmith. She had confused him with her ...

bothersome crinolines and the beaded jacket that she put on for formal visits, and she found Tranquilina ...

make the worms shrivel up and drop off cows, and her timid mother, and her cousin with the ...

returned from school and Aureliano grew tired of the encyclopedia, they would find her sitting ...

the present in such a way that in the two or three waves of lucidity that she had before she died, ...

she always kept raised looked like the paw of a marimonda monkey. She was motionless for several days, and ...