One Hundred Years of Solitude

Úrsula compared him with
his brother at that time and
could not understand how the
twins, who looked like the
same person in childhood,
had ended up so differently.
Her perplexity did not last
very long, for quite soon
Aureliano Segundo began to
show signs of laziness and
dissipation. While he was
shut up in Melquíades room
he was drawn into himself the
way Colonel Aureliano