One Hundred Years of Solitude

the afternoon on which she
had given Colonel Gerineldo
Márquez his final rejection
and shut herself up to weep.
She was not seen to cry
during the ascension to
heaven of Remedios the
Beauty or over the
extermination of the
Aurelianos or the death of
Colonel Aureliano Buendía,
who was the person she loved
most in this world, although
she showed it only when they