One Hundred Years of Solitude

            Hello,  Aureliano   Segundo

said.

Hello, young man, said
Melquíades.

            From    then    on, for several

years, they saw each other
almost every afternoon.
Melquíades talked to him
about the world, tried to
infuse him with his old
wisdom, but he refused to
translate the manuscripts. No
one must know their meaning