other. Aureliano Segundo, punctual and loving with both of them. Petra Cotes, strutting because of the
reconciliation, and Fernanda, pretending that she did not know the truth.
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The pact did not succeed, however, in incorporating Fernanda into the family. 2rsula insisted in vain that she
take off the woolen ruff which she would have on when she got up from making love and which made the
neighbors whisper. She could not convince her to use the bathroom or the night lavatory and sell the gold
chamberpot to Colonel Aureliano Buendaa so that he could convert it into little fishes. Amaranta felt so
uncomfortable with her defective diction and her habit of using euphemisms to designate everything that she
would always speak gibberish in front of her.
“Thifisif.?she would say, “ifisif onefos ofosif thofosif whosufu cantantant statantand thefesef smufumellu
ofosif therisir owfisown shifisifit.?
One day, irritated by the mockery, Fernanda wanted to know what Amaranta was saying, and she did not use
euphemisms in answering her.
“I was saying,?she told her, “that you’re one of those people who mix up their ass and their ashes.?
From that time on they did not speak to each other again. When circumstances demanded it they would send
notes. In spite of the visible hostility of the family, Fernanda did not give up her drive to impose the customs of
her ancestors. She put an end to the custom of eating in the kitchen and whenever anyone was hungry,rappelz rupees, and she
imposed the obligation of doing it at regular hours at the large table in the dining room, covered with a linen
cloth and with silver candlesticks and table service. The solemnity of an act which 2rsula had considered the
most simple one of daily life created a tense atmosphere against which the silent Jos?Arcadio Segundo rebelled
before anyone else. But the custom was imposed,cheap warcraft gold, the same as that of reciting the rosary before dinner, and it
drew the attention of the neighbors, who soon spread the rumor that the Buendaas did not sit down to the table
like other mortals but had changed the act of eating into a kind of high mass. Even 2rsula’s superstitions, with
origins that came more from an inspiration of the moment than from tradition, came into conflict with those of
Fernanda, who had inherited them from her parents and kept them defined and catalogued for every occasion. As
long as 2rsula had full use of her faculties some of the old customs survived and the life of the family kept some
quality of her impulsiveness, but when she lost her sight and the weight of her years relegated her to a corner, the
circle of rigidity begun by Fernanda from the moment she arrived finally closed completely and no one but she
determined the destiny of the family. The business in pastries and small candy animals that Santa Sofaa de la
Piedad had kept up because of 2rsula’s wishes was considered an unworthy activity by Fernanda and she lost no
time in putting a stop to it. The doors of the house,rappelz money, wide open from dawn until bedtime, were closed during siesta
time under the pretext that the sun heated up the bedrooms and in the end they were closed for good. The aloe
branch and loaf of bread that had been hanging over the door since the days of the founding were replaced by a
niche with the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Colonel Aureliano, Buendaa became aware somehow of those changes and
foresaw their consequences. “We’re becoming people of quality,?he protested. “At this rate we’ll end up fighting
against the Conservative regime again,runescape gold, but this time to install a king in its place.?Fernanda very tactfully tried
The house became full of loves Aureliano expressed it in poetry that had no beginning or end. He would write
it on the harsh pieces of parchment that Melquaades gave him, on the bathroom walls, on the skin of his arms,
and in all of it Remedios would appear transfigured: Remedios in the soporific air of two in the afternoon,rappelz money,
Remedios in the soft breath of the roses, Remedios in the water-clock secrets of the moths, Remedios in the
steaming morning bread, Remedios everywhere and Remedios forever. Rebeca waited for her love at four in the
afternoon,acheter kamas, embroidering by the window. She knew that the mailman’s mule arrived only every two weeks, but
she always waited for him, convinced that he was going to arrive on some other day by mistake. It happened
quite the opposite: once the mule did not come on the usual day. Mad with desperation, Rebeca got up in the
middle of the night and ate handfuls of earth in the garden with a suicidal drive, weeping with pain and fury,
chewing tender earthworms and chipping her teeth on snail shells. She vomited until dawn. She fell into a state
of feverish prostration, lost consciousness, and her heart went into a shameless delirium. 2rsula, scandalized,
forced the lock on her trunk and found at the bottom, tied together with pink ribbons, the sixteen perfumed letters
and the skeletons of leaves and petals preserved in old books and the dried butterflies that turned to powder at the
touch.
Aureliano was the only one capable of understanding such desolation. That afternoon, while 2rsula was trying
to rescue Rebeca from the slough of delirium, he went with Magnafico Visbal and Gerineldo Mrquez to
Catarino’s store. The establishment had been expanded with a gallery of wooden rooms where single women
who smelled of dead flowers lived. A group made up of an accordion and drums played the songs of Francisco
the Man, who had not been seen in Macondo for several years. The three friends drank fermented cane juice.
Magnafico and Gerineldo, contemporaries of Aureliano but more skilled in the ways of the world, drank
methodically with the women seated on their laps. One of the women, withered and with goldwork on her teeth,
gave Aureliano a caress that made him shudder. He rejected her. He had discovered that the more he drank the
more he thought about Remedios, but he could bear the torture of his recollections better. He did not know
exactly when he began to float. He saw his friends and the women sailing in a radiant glow, without weight or
mass,acheter kamas, saying words that did not come out of their mouths and making mysterious signals that did not correspond
to their expressions. Catarino put a hand on his shoulder and said to him: “It’s going on eleven.?Aureliano turned
his head, saw the enormous disfigured face with a felt flower behind the ear, and then he lost his memory, as
during the ti mes of forgetfulness,rs gold, and he recovered it on a strange dawn and in a room that was completely
foreign, where Pilar Ternera stood in her slip, barefoot, her hair down, holding a lamp over him, startled with
disbelief.
“Aureliano!?
Aureliano checked his feet and raised his head. He did not know how he had come there, but he knew what his
aim was, because he had carried it hidden since infancy in an inviolable backwater of his heart.
“I’ve come to sleep with you,?he said.
His clothes were smeared with mud and vomit. Pilar Ternera, who lived alone at that time with her two
younger children, did not ask him any questions. She took him to the bed. She cleaned his face with a damp
cloth, took of his clothes, and then got completely undressed and lowered the mosquito netting so that her
children would not see them if they woke up. She had become tired of waiting for the man who would stay, of
the men who left, of the countless men who missed the road to her house, confused by the uncertainty of the
cards. During the wait her skin had become wrinkled, her breasts had withered, the coals of her heart had gone