One Hundred Years of Solitude

wishing her dead, she
banished her from the sewing
room. It was around that time
that Colonel Gerineldo
Márquez began to feel the
boredom of the war. He
summoned his reserves of
persuasion, his broad and
repressed tenderness, ready to
give up for Amaranta a glory
that had cost him the sacrifice
of his best years. But he could
not succeed in convincing
her. One August afternoon,