One Hundred Years of Solitude

distinguished, and discreet
girl they had ever seen. At the
end of eight years, after
having learned to write Latin
poetry, play the clavichord,
talk about falconry with
gentlemen and apologetics,
with archbishops, discuss
affairs of state with foreign
rulers and affairs of God with
the Pope, she returned to her
parents home to weave
funeral wreaths. She found it
despoiled. All that was left