One Hundred Years of Solitude

her bitter, suddenly became
clear to her in the final
analysis as the most tender
woman who had ever existed,
and she understood with
pitying clarity that the unjust
tortures to which she had
submitted Pietro Crespi had
not been dictated by a desire
for vengeance, as everyone
had thought, nor had the slow
martyrdom with which she
had frustrated the life of
Colonel Gerineldo Márquez