One Hundred Years of Solitude

keep her money in, and she
would not have to take it off
even to sleep. She tried to
give her the chamberpot,
washed out with lye and
disinfected with alcohol, but
Amaranta Úrsula refused it
for fear that her schoolmates
would make fun of her. A few
months later, at the hour of
his death, Aureliano Segundo
would remember her as he
had seen her for the last time
as she tried unsuccessfully to