One Hundred Years of Solitude

that Úrsula asked his opinion
about the marriage between
Pietro Crespi and Amaranta,
and he answered that these
were not times to be thinking
about such a thing. For a
week he had been carrying an
old-fashioned pistol under his
shirt. He kept his eyes on his
friends. In the afternoon he
would go have coffee with
José Arcadio and Rebeca,
who had begun to put their
house in order, and from