One Hundred Years of Solitude

in which she repeated her
love and said how anxious
she was to see him again, but
at the same time she admitted
as a design of fate the
impossibility of living
without Aureliano. Contrary
to what they had expected,
Gaston sent them a calm,
almost paternal reply, with
two whole pages devoted to a
warning against the fickleness
of passion and a final
paragraph with unmistakable