One Hundred Years of Solitude

the workbench and the glass
cupboard with bottles of acid
and instruments that were still
where their owner had left
them and he seemed to
understand that no one lived
in that room. He wisely asked
Aureliano Segundo if he was
a silversmith, however, and
the latter explained to him
that it had been Colonel
Aureliano Buendías
workshop. Oho, the officer
said, turned on the lights, and