One Hundred Years of Solitude

Father Nicanor was in bed
with hepatic fever. The
parents of Colonel Gerineldo
Márquez, who had not been
condemned to death, had tried
to see him and were driven
off with rifle butts. Facing the
impossibility of finding
anyone to intervene,
convinced that her son would
be shot at dawn, Úrsula
wrapped up the things she
wanted to bring him and went
to the jail alone.