One Hundred Years of Solitude

by his anxious breathing, and
he continued hearing his steps
in the ruined bedrooms after
midnight. He did not hear his
voice for many months, not
only because José Arcadio
never addressed him, but also
because he had no desire for
it to happen or time to think
about anything else but the
parchments. On Fernandas
death he had taken out the
next-to-the-last little fish and
gone to the wise Catalonians