One Hundred Years of Solitude

mothers of the revolutionary
officers who lived in
Macondo to testify. One by
one the old women who had
been founders of the town,
several of whom had taken
part in the daring crossing of
the mountains, praised the
virtues of General Moncada.
Úrsula was the last in line.
Her gloomy dignity, the
weight of her name, the
convincing vehemence of her
declaration made the scale of