One Hundred Years of Solitude

execution and promised that
she would take charge of
attracting Gerineldo Márquez
herself when the war was
over. She fulfilled her
promise before the imagined
time. When Gerineldo
Márquez returned to the
house, invested with his new
dignity of civil and military
leader, she received him as a
son, thought of delightful bits
of flattery to hold him there,
and prayed with all her soul