One Hundred Years of Solitude

But they both remained
standing.

            Very    well,   my  friend, José

Arcadio Buendía said, you
may stay here, not because
you have those bandits with
shotguns at the door, but out
of consideration for your wife
and daughters.

            Don Apolinar    Moscote was

upset, but José Arcadio
Buendía did not give him
time to reply. We only make