One Hundred Years of Solitude

nightgown, he had the picture
taken of Petra Cotes dressed
as a queen. Later on, when he
succeeded in getting
Fernanda to come back home,
she gave in to his urges in the
fever of reconciliation, but
she could not give him the
repose he had dreamed about
when he went to fetch her in
the city with the thirty-two
belfries. Aureliano Segundo
found only a deep feeling of
desolation in her. One night, a