One Hundred Years of Solitude

with the onlookers, had a
fight, biting and hair pulling,
with a woman who had dared
to comment that Arcadio had
a womans behind. Toward
midnight Pietro Crespi took
his leave with a sentimental
little speech, and he promised
to return very soon. Rebeca
accompanied him to the door,
and having closed up the
house and put out the lamps,
she went to her room to weep.
It was an inconsolable