One Hundred Years of Solitude

Segundo and Santa Sofía de
la Piedad saw the Arab eyes
of José Arcadio Segundo at
the moment when the ray of
light passed over his face and
they understood that it was
the end of one anxiety and the
beginning of another which
would find relief only in
resignation. But the officer
continued examining the
room with the lantern and
showed no sign of interest
until he discovered the