One Hundred Years of Solitude

and red. To the women who
were besieging him and
coveting him he put the
question as to who would pay
the most. The one who had
the most money offered him
twenty pesos. Then he
proposed raffling himself off
among them at ten pesos a
chance. It was a fantastic
price because the most
sought-after woman earned
eight pesos a night, but they
all accepted. They wrote their