One Hundred Years of Solitude

head soup and other dainties
of misery, and he would have
kept right on if she had not let
him know that his presence
frightened off customers.
Although he sometimes felt
the temptation and although
Nigromanta herself might
have seemed to him as the
natural culmination of a
shared nostalgia, he did not
go to bed with her. So
Aureliano was still a virgin
when Amaranta Úrsula