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vinegar, then with ashes and lemon, and finally they put him in a barrel of lye and let him stay for six hours.
They scrubbed him so much that the arabesques of his tattooing began to fade. When they thought of the
desperate measure of seasoning him with pepper, cumin seeds, and laurel leaves and boiling him for a whole day
over a slow fire, he had already begun to decompose and they had to bury him hastily. They sealed him
hermetically in a special coffin seven and a half feet long and four feet wide, reinforced inside with iron plates
and fastened together with steel bolts, and even then the smell could be perceived on the streets through which
the funeral procession passed. Father Nicanor, with his liver enlarged and tight as a drum, gave him his blessing
from bed. Although in the months that followed they reinforced the grave with walls about it, between which
they threw compressed ash, sawdust, and quicklime,9dragons gold, the cemetery still smelled of powder for many years after,
until the engineers from the banana company covered the grave over with a shell of concrete. As soon as they
took the body out, Rebeca closed the doors of her house and buried herself alive, covered with a thick crust of
disdain that no earthly temptation was ever able to break. She went out into the street on one occasion, when she
was very old, with shoes the color of old silver and a hat made of tiny flowers, during the time that the
Wandering Jew passed through town and brought on a heat wave that was so intense that birds broke through
window screens to come to die in the bedrooms. The last time anyone saw her alive was when with one shot she
killed a thief who was trying to force the door of her house. Except for Arg|nida, her servant and confidante, no
one ever had any more contact with her after that. At one time it was discovered that she was writing letters to
the Bishop, whom she claimed as a first cousin. but it was never said whether she received any reply. The town
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forgot about her.
In spite of his triumphal return, Colonel Aureliano Buendaa was not enthusiastic over the looks of things. The
government troops abandoned their positions without resistance and that aroused an illusion of victory among the
Liberal population that it was not right to destroy,age of conan power leveling, but the revolutionaries knew the truth, Colonel Aureliano
Buendaa better than any of them. Although at that moment he had more than five thousand men under his
command and held two coastal states, he had the feeling of being hemmed in against the sea and caught in a
situation that was so confused that when he ordered the restoration of the church steeple, which had been
knocked down by army cannon fire, Father Nicanor commented from his sickbed: “This is silly; the defenders of
the faith of Christ destroy the church and the Masons order it rebuilt.?Looking for a loophole through which he
could escape, he spent hours on end in the telegraph office conferring with the commanders of other towns,buy aion gold, and
every time he would emerge with the firmest impression that the war was at a stalemate. When news of fresh
liberal victories was received it was celebrated with jubilant proclamations, but he would measure the real extent
of them on the map and could see that his forces were penetrating into the jungle, defending themselves against
malaria and mosquitoes, advancing in the opposite direction from reality. “We’re wasting time,?he would
complain to his officers. “We’re wasting time while the bastards in the party are begging for seats in congress.?
Lying awake at night,buy warcraft gold, stretched out on his back in a hammock in the same room where he had awaited death, he
would evoke the image of lawyers dressed in black leaving the presidential palace in the icy cold of early
