One Hundred Years of Solitude

children. Fernanda put
Amaranta Úrsula in a small
private school where they
admitted only six girls, but
she refused to allow
Aureliano to go to public
school. She considered that
she had already relented too
much in letting him leave the
room. Besides, the schools in
those days accepted only the
legitimate offspring of
Catholic marriages and on the
birth certificate that had been