One Hundred Years of Solitude

of them, Aureliano Centeno,
stayed on to work with
Aureliano Triste. He was one
of the first who had been
brought to the house for
baptism and Úrsula and
Amaranta remembered him
very well because in a few
hours he had destroyed every
breakable object that passed
through his hands. Time had
moderated his early impulse
for growth and he was a man
of average height marked by