One Hundred Years of Solitude

practice during the heat of
siesta time had a funereal
echo. In spite of her secret
hostility toward the colonel, it
was Fernanda who imposed
the rigor of that mourning,
impressed by the solemnity
with which the government
exalted the memory of its
dead enemy. Aureliano
Segundo, as was his custom
came back to sleep in the
house during his daughters
vacation and Fernanda must