One Hundred Years of Solitude

But he did not clear up the
mistake, not even when the
girl tried to soften his heart
with sobs, and she ended
taking him to her room. She
liked him so much from that
first meeting that she fixed
things so that he would win
the accordion in the raffle. At
the end of two weeks
Aureliano Segundo realized
that the woman had been
going to bed alternately with
him and his brother, thinking