One Hundred Years of Solitude

While the nine nights lasted
she did not once leave the
side of Mauricio Babilonia,
who mingled with the crowd
that invaded the house. Then
came the long period of
mourning and the obligatory
withdrawal and they
separated for a time. Those
were days of such inner
agitation, such irrepressible
anxiety, and so many
repressed urges that on the
first evening that Meme was