One Hundred Years of Solitude

long and hazardous existence
as a fugitive. He identified
himself, begged them to give
him refuge in that house
which during his nights as a
pariah he had remembered as
the last redoubt of safety left
for him in life. But José
Arcadio and Aureliano did
not remember him. Thinking
that he was a tramp, they
pushed him into the street.
They both saw from the
doorway the end of a drama