One Hundred Years of Solitude

with the armed groups in the
interior of the country until
the leaders of the party
publicly rectified their
declaration that he was a
bandit. He knew, however,
that as soon as he put those
scruples aside he would break
the vicious circle of the war.
Convalescence gave him time
to reflect. Then he succeeded
in getting Úrsula to give him
the rest of her buried
inheritance and her