One Hundred Years of Solitude

and did not visit her again.
Petra Cotes, without losing
her poise of a wild beast in
repose for a single instant,
heard the music and the
fireworks from the wedding,
the wild bustle of the
celebration as if all of it were
nothing but some new piece
of mischief on the part of
Aureliano Segundo. Those
who pitied her fate were
calmed with a smile. Dont
worry, she told them. Queens