One Hundred Years of Solitude

of the war, he visited her
every afternoon. Many times,
when Remedios the Beauty
was not present, it was he
who turned the wheel on the
sewing machine. Amaranta
felt upset by the
perseverance, the loyalty, the
submissiveness of that man
who was invested with so
much authority and who
nevertheless took off his
sidearm in the living room so
that he could go into the