One Hundred Years of Solitude

turns for lunch and then for
dinner, and for the whole
week they were able to take
only one walk through the
plantations. At nightfall the
nuns were exhausted, unable
to move, give another order,
and still the troop of tireless
adolescents was in the
courtyard singing school
songs out of tune. One day
they were on the point of
trampling Úrsula, who made
an effort to be useful