One Hundred Years of Solitude

courtyard while the Indian
woman helped her sweeten
the dough and she saw two
unknown and beautiful
adolescent girls doing frame
embroidery in the light of the
sunset. They were Rebeca
and Amaranta. As soon as
they had taken off the
mourning clothes for their
grandmother, which they
wore with inflexible rigor for
three years, their bright
clothes seemed to have given