One Hundred Years of Solitude

times by Colonel Aureliano
Buendía, and they spent a
whole afternoon looking for
someone who could tell them
where they could find one of
his descendants. Aureliano
Segundo was tempted to
accept it, thinking that it was
a medal of solid gold, but
Petra Cotes convinced him
that it was not proper when
the emissaries already had
some proclamations and
speeches ready for the