One Hundred Years of Solitude

Nevertheless he insisted with
such perseverance, begged in
such a way, broke his code of
dignity to such a degree, that
with a little help from here
and a little more from there,
sneaking about everywhere,
with a slippery diligence and
a pitiless perseverance, he
managed to put together in
eight months more money
than Úrsula had buried. Then
he visited the ailing Colonel
Gerineldo Márquez so that he