One Hundred Years of Solitude

seemed unlikely to them, they
did not have any information
enabling them to replace it
with the true one. All that
they were sure of after
examining an the possibilities
was that Fernanda was not
Aurelianos mother. Amaranta
Úrsula was inclined to
believe that he was the son of
Petra Cotes, of whom she
remembered only tales of
infamy, and that supposition
produced a twinge of horror