One Hundred Years of Solitude

in the Hotel Jacob, while he
looked for a house, and he
went back to open his office
under the protection of the
soldiers. The founders of
Macondo, resolving to expel
the invaders, went with their
older sons to put themselves
at the disposal of José
Arcadio Buendía. But he was
against it, as he explained,
because it was not manly to
make trouble for someone in
front of his family, and Don