One Hundred Years of Solitude

of cotton stockings that
Amaranta Úrsula had given
her, and she made a bundle
out of the two or three
changes of clothing that she
had left.

I give up, she said to
Aureliano. This is too much
house for my poor bones.

            Aureliano   asked   her where

she was going and she made a
vague sign, as if she did not
have the slightest idea of her