One Hundred Years of Solitude

ruddy-faced, with very thick
glasses and ceremonious
manners, signaled to the
sentries to withdraw.

            I   am  the mother  of  Colonel

Aureliano Buendía, Úrsula
repeated.

            You must    mean,   the officer

corrected with a friendly
smile, that you are the mother
of Mister Aureliano Buendía.
Úrsula recognized in his
affected way of speaking the