One Hundred Years of Solitude

found his body under the
chestnut tree. She helped pick
up the body. She dressed him
in his soldiers uniform,
shaved him, combed his hair,
and waxed his mustache
better than he had ever done
in his days of glory. No one
thought that there was any
love in that act because they
were accustomed to the
familiarity of Amaranta with
the rites of death. Fernanda
was scandalized that she did