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front of Remedios the Beauty and offered her the solitary rose. She took it with a natural gesture, as if she had
been prepared for that homage, and then she uncovered her face and gave her thanks with a smile. That was all
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an eternal instant.
From then on the gentleman had a band of musicians play beside the window of Remedios the Beauty,
sometimes until dawn. Aureliano Segundo was the only one who felt a cordial compassion for him and he tried
to break his perseverance. “Don’t waste your time any more,?he told him one night. “The women in this house
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understand that the females of his family had insides made of flint, but he could not weaken his obstinacy.
Exasperated by the interminable nights of music, Colonel Aureliano Buendaa threatened to cure his affliction
with a few pistol shots. Nothing made him desist except his own lamentable state of demoralization. From a
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keep an eye on her so that she would not paint little animals on the walls with a stick daubed in her own
excrement. She reached twenty without knowing how to read or write, unable to use the silver at the table,
wandering naked through the house because her nature rejected all manner of convention. When the young
commander of the guard declared his love for her, she rejected him simply because his frivolity startled her. “See
how simple he is,?she told Amaranta. “He says that he’s dying because of me, as if I were a bad case of colic.?
When, indeed, they found him dead beside her window, Remedios the Beauty confirmed her first impression.
“You see,?she commented. “He was a complete Simpleton.?
It seemed as if some penetrating lucidity permitted her to see the reality of things beyond any formalism. That
at least was the point of view of Colonel Aureliano Buendaa, for whom Remedios the Beauty was in no way
mentally retarded, as was generally believed, but quite the opposite. “It’s as if she’s come back from twenty years
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exceptional purity, but at the same time she was disturbed by her beauty, for it seemed a contradictory virtue to
her, a diabolical trap at the center of her innocence. It was for that reason that she decided to keep her away from
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little longer,?she said softly. Aureliano got undressed, tormented by shame, unable to get rid of the idea that-his
nakedness could not stand comparison with that of his brother. In spite of the girl’s efforts he felt more and more
indifferent and terribly alone. “I’ll throw in other twenty cents,?he said with a desolate voice. The girl thanked
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had ten years of seventy men per night, because she also had to pay the expenses of the trip and food for both of
them as well as the pay of the Indians who carried the rocking chair. When the matron knocked on the door the
second time, Aureliano left the room without having done anything, troubled by a desire to weep. That night he
could not sleep, thinking about the girl, with a mixture of desire and pity. He felt an irresistible need to love her
and protect her. At dawn, worn out by insomnia and fever, he made the calm decision to marry her in order to
free her from the despotism of her grandmother and to enjoy all the nights of satisfaction that she would give the
seventy men. But at ten o’clock in the morning, when he reached Catarino’s store, the girl had left town.
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meantime, Melquaades had printed on his plates everything that was printable in Macondo, and he left the
daguerreotype laboratory to the fantasies of Jos?Arcadio Buendaa who had resolved to use it to obtain scientific
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of the race of the Buendaa. “It’s a mistake,?Jos?Arcadio Buendaa thundered. “They won’t be houses of glass but
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went all night turning out baskets and more baskets of bread and a prodigious variety of puddings, meringues,
and cookies, which disappeared in a few hours on the roads winding through the swamp. She had reached an age
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enterprises that one afternoon she looked distractedly toward the courtyard while the Indian woman helped her
sweeten the dough and she saw two unknown and beautiful adolescent girls doing frame embroidery in the light
of the sunset. They were Rebeca and Amaranta. As soon as they had taken off the mourning clothes for their
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