One Hundred Years of Solitude

plane back might take two
years. So Amaranta Úrsula
dismissed the possibility of
an inopportune return.
Aureliano, for his part, had no
other contact with the world
except for the letters from the
wise Catalonian and the news
he had of Gabriel through
Mercedes, the silent
pharmacist. At first they were
real contacts. Gabriel had
turned in his return ticket in
order to stay in Paris, selling