One Hundred Years of Solitude

madams wrathful passion that
Colonel Aureliano Buendía,
of whom she had indeed
heard speak at some time,
was a figure invented by the
government as a pretext for
killing Liberals. Gabriel, on
the other hand, did not doubt
the reality of Colonel
Aureliano Buendía because
he had been a companion in
arms and inseparable friend
of his great-great-grandfather
Colonel Gerineldo Márquez.