sign of timidity and with a
natural pleasant manner that
had not shown itself until
then. Aureliano Segundo
gave him the little fish. The
officer put it in his shirt
pocket with a childlike glow
in his eyes and he put the
others back in the can and set
it back where it had been.
Its a wonderful memento,
he said. Colonel Aureliano
Buendía was one of our