One Hundred Years of Solitude

the burned house. According
to the girls calculations, she
still had ten years of seventy
men per night, because she
also had to pay the expenses
of the trip and food for both
of them as well as the pay of
the Indians who carried the
rocking chair. When the
matron knocked on the door
the second time, Aureliano
left the room without having
done anything, troubled by a
desire to weep. That night he