One Hundred Years of Solitude

house again fell into a neglect
from which it could not be
rescued even by a will as
resolute and vigorous as that
of Amaranta Úrsula, who
many years later, being a
happy, modern woman
without prejudices, with her
feet on the ground, opened
doors and windows in order
to drive away the rain,
restored the garden,
exterminated the red ants who
were already walking across