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CHAPTER THREE

        At ty-eig desirable of baed from a long stay in Paris, udies in medie and surgery, and from time    foot on solid ground ions t    ed a minute of ime. urned more fastidious t, more in trol of ure, and none of emporaries seemed as rigorous and as learned as ter to tainty of u lotteries to determine oo, on being    o keep ate of grace, intad tempting, until    resistao the plebeian charms of Fermina Daza.

        o say t t of a ical error.    believe t it    of all at t time in rated on tiny of y s, rolling arm in arm    te autumn, it seemed impossible to imagine a purer er-noons, nuts on tiable lovers kissing on terraces, and still old    t    prepared to exc for a single instant of ill too young to kno t’s memory elimi to tifice o e. But    te promontory of trict again, tionless buzzards on t to dry on tand to ent im to table deceptions of nostalgia.

        ts ing bla of dro of te in to escape tencor    alpaca,    and dustcoat, eur and , pale part, and rol to    caused not by terror but by sadness. On ted dock guarded by barefoot soldiers    uniforms, ers and moting for    friends, atioe ticated airs; t t e and fn, but tremor in tainty in t belied t of all. Sill young, a woman w w rose from    e self-defense why his skin ale as wax.

        “It’s life over turn green in Paris.”

        A s ing    as    o y t came p in t to succumb to a proliferation of beggars, and it o dis t st of jasmine beo , poorer and sadder, and ts is t tumbled in frigrip from t to ed in t of trict of t seemed algia. Defeated, urned     see, and o cry in silence.

        toric resi-dence of t escaped t id say fountain in teriarden and t many marble flagstones airs copper railings t led to t,    ated tion six years earlier, and    of t ernal, ituted evening novenas for ed lyrical soirées and cs. ers, despite tural inations aive vocation, .

        Dr. Juvenal Urbino did not sleep at all on t of urn; ened by to t and all to ies and s terrors, ed by ting screams of t door, ter jar into ted t teps of tal fear of t, sleeping mansion.

        ers, Dr. Juvenal Urbino ended o Divine Providence because     to live anotreime tion of ry, and tous attentions of tigated tterness of    impression. Little by little omed to try    of October, to to ty judgments of o tomorroor, don’t    last o t. It did not take o i an easy justification for o    God o it.

        t to take possession of    in place ture made of    sig o ttic treatises on viceregal sd romantic medie and filled tings of took doures, except for tient, and tic Oated in Gotters, and    to    honors from various schools in Europe.

        ried to impose test ideas at Misericordia al, but t as easy as it iquated ubborn in its attac to atavistic superstitions, suding beds in pots of er to prevent disease from climbing up ting room because it aken fra elegance ial dition for asepsis. t tolerate tasting a patient’s urio determiing d trousseau as if tes, issuing severe    tal risks of vaes    iion of suppositories.    ing spirit, y, al pranksters--everyt, t stituted    estimable virtues provoked tment of he younger ones.

        ation in ty. o t auties to fill in t s, and to build in tem s    empty into t t, as    into some distant drainage area instead. trines iks, but tion lived i t dried in turo dust, and le breezes of December. Dr. Juvenal Urbino attempted to force ty cil to impose an obligatory training course so t to build trines.    in vain to stop tossing garbage into ts t over turies refa, and to    it instead at least te it in some unined area.

        al t of ter. t seemed fantastic, si ed it erns at ter rained doed under a t valued icles of time er collectors ers dripped day and nige earter jars. to prevent anyone from drinking from to dip out ter, its edges he    of a mock king.

        ter alline and cool in t tasted of t. But Dr. Juvenal Urbino    taken in by ty, for    despite all precautions, ttom of eacuary for erc mystical astonis, vinced along    time t erural creatures ill er, courted young maidens and could inflict furious vengeance because of love. As a boy eaco rebuff tery trail of glass i and tain of sto s. And so it ery toes, but once     it, because from t moment on    tone filters intact.

        For a long time ter in terns al    so many men in ty endured not only    embarrassment but ain patriotisolence. ary sc avoid a spasm of    t of men ures sitting in t afternoons, fanniicle as if it     tled like a lugubrious bird on stormy niged in unbearable pain    ts because a large, ure urned from Europe ific falla t ted in local superstition t many people opposed t of ter in terns for fear of destroying its ability to cause an ure.

        Impure er    all t alarmed Dr. Juvenal Urbino.    as ed    t, a vast extension of cleared land along Las ánimas Bay rious traveler of t as one of t varied in t    also, per alarming of markets. Set on its oides, it    erting viscera, animal refuse t floated, in sunsars for it s and tual scramble among t s from Sotavento    stalls, and tables from Arjona displayed on stras spread over ted to make tary, ed a slaug someructed ained-glass turrets, like t it seemed a so eat t even t plaisant of able friends pitied    is    toric merits of ty, ts relics, its s beauty, but to t enougo see it ruth.

        “y must be,”    f to finis off and ill    succeeded,”

        t    victims ruck doanding er of t, est deatoll in our ory. Until t time t dead erred uones in ty of arculars, s. t to tery, located on a ed from ty by a dry al    mayor: Lasciate ogni speranza voi crate.

        After t tery    i tco ts, and its doors did not open again until ter, at time t Fermina Daza saino Ariza at close quarters as s Midniger of t of St. Clare o its poplar-lined    o use ty’s orcery. to bury t delay and    coffins, but to be stopped because turned into a spo oozed siing, ied blood at every step. ts o tinue burying in ttle rancy, ed as tery.

        From time tion    a on from tress every quarter , in accordaion t gunpomospating to tion, y it    ended as suddenly as it ent of its ravages    be-cause to establis because one of our most ues aiice ing personal misfortune.

        Dr. Marco Aurelio Urbino, t dreadful time, as s most distinguisim. By official decree ed publi iative erveo sut in every social question t during t critical moments of ty seemed to exist. Years later, re-vie able tifid, in many rary to reason, so t in large measure it ered turned, little by little, into t time ted not ood ude of     dispute s: y recovered from ter, and it ice t her heroes of less honor-able wars.

        live to see oms t ied in ot even attempt a useless struggle but    to i anyone else. Locked in a utility room at Misericordia al, deaf to tims dying on te a letter of feveriso ter of gratitude for en y rending pages in ing script, and it    necessary to ko realize t    breatrus, ery and    seen by anyone who loved him.

        ter, in Paris, Dr. Juvenal Urbino received a telegram during supper oasted ter urity: y in order not to cry. But ter ter, and to trut oo s profundity, taug and fornicated y-t ter, imidity, pure and simple.

        Until tu befell oters and    not t see t tle in time, turning into memories, mists from otil to oblivion. ter, more telegram    tainty of deat one of    memories, wher.

        One rainy afternoon t in tiled floor, and    s unbuttoned aic armbands on    sleeves. Suddenly opped reading to scratcc tle silver    reac t itco scratge sensation of not feeling    last    h a sad smile.

        “If I died now,” he said, “you would hardly remember me when you are my age.”

        for no apparent reason, and t in t again trail of feattering in    t see ty years    afternoon. ical to o t awareness    al.

        o tine manner in some marginal course,    to believe t only ty years before, it y t after to kno t forms of c as a peo appease udied    outstanding epidemiologist of ime and tor of taires, Professor Adrien Proust, fat . So t o ry and smelled tenc    at sea and sas is,    only uedy    ain t it ed at any moment.

        t    long in ing. Iudents at Misericordia al asked for reating a cy patient range blue coloration all over o see ient o tal ic by    did not seem probable t ed anyone else. In a, Dr. Juvenal Urbino alerted ies s so t te and quaraaminated sco restrain tary ander of ty o declare martial laiate tic strategy of firing ter hour.

        “Save t powder for whe Middle Ages.”

        tient died in four days, it, but in te stant vigilance. A s    tions in ty. It    one of tery, but to , a victim of d ted and placed under individual quarantine, and tire o strict medical supervision. One of tracted c recovered very soon, and tire family returned ed in t tbreak, but by t    ted.

        No one doubted t tary rigor of Dr. Juvenal Urbino, more ts,    time on, and o tury, ly in ty but along most of t and t it never again flared into an epidemic. t t Dr. Juvenal Urbino’s ablisory C far from t time,    -ed ory, nor    moment one of racted and in disarray and ready tet everytruck by tning of his love for Fermina Daza.

        It , t of a ical error. A p ected toms of -year-old patient, and o see    very afternoon, alarmed at ty t tered tuary of ty, for all til t time    all of tion. ered ot, surprises. From tside, trees in to be in ruins, as did trict, but iy and an astonis t seemed to e from anotrance opened directly into a square Sevillian patio t    coat of lime and rees and tiles on ter, and pots ions e birds in tra of all io ime to bark, maddened by t of a stranger, but a opped ts leapt all around tio and ened by ty in t despite ter on stone, one could e breathe sea.

        Sion t God , Dr. Juvenal Urbino t t suco tino Ariza    time, ill a sairs to ted to be announced befoing into tient’s bedroom. But Gala Pla-cidia came out again h a message:

        “ta says you ot e in no home.”

        And so ur five in ternoon, in accordance rus, and Lorenzo Daza reet door and led o er’s bedroom. tting in a dark er ile efforts to trol ion. It    easy to knoor e tout in ty, but ead, ions in an impersonal void sremulous voice, botting in t last Dr. Juvenal Urbino asked tient to sit up, and e care dress doo t; s ant in to cover turbable, t looking at    ausculta-tion,     t and the back.

        Dr. Juvenal Urbino used to say t ion il t break of crict t ook no notice of est    t s be a victim of t: tor s in e    incapable of loving a estinal iion of alimentary i at    er    tracted co t, a fee t seemed excessive even for a po te expressions of gratitude. or’s family names, and    only did not    but would o see ances.

        t on tuesday of t being called and , Dr. Juvenal Urbiuro t t ernoon. Fermina Daza ing less    aop    and sigo o e over to    te dooed to t raised to keep it fring on t one or ruck by t t sing at o a party. ook ick out ongue,    ongue de-pressor, ime ed t, but s uand ted examination if     e baless tant: s ever    to see ion, tor put tongue depressor bato ruments and bottles of medie, and closed it h a resounding snap.

        “You are like a new-sprung rose,” he said.

        “thank you.”

        “ted St. t everyt is good, s in, es from t. Do you like music?”

        “ is t of t question?” surn.

        “Music is important for one’s h,” he said.

        it    of    topiusic    a magiula t o propose friends at t moment serpreted it as a joke. Besides, o paint    tittered and tes, and trol. Blind . tor stared at tains in be, ried to find treet door but lost o to sordid s, and saturated tor’s cloted o t:

        “Doctor-- for me there.”

        airs buttoning , ill in an uproar after a restless siesta. tor tried to overe .

        “I told your daug she is like a rose.”

        “true enoug one oo many thorns.”

        Dr. Urbino    greeting ed a rougo er:

        “e or’s pardon.”

        tor tried to intervene and stop    Lorenzo Daza paid no attention to ed: “    plea for uanding, and so    so beg pardon for, so keep out tried to firm    Lorenzo Daza insisted t uroending    foot as s ips, srical curtsy to tor.

        “I give you my most felt apologies, sir,” she said.

        Dr. Juvenal Urbino imitated op , but    e smile ed o o set t, a     ment in .

        trut Dr. Juvenal Urbino did not drink coffee, except for a cup first t drink alclass of     only drank do Lorenzo Daza offered ed a glass of ae. ted anotte, and till o make a fe first eention to t Lorenzo Daza tio offer in ter,    and serious girl, , so er. But after tte, tor t    tio, and ion    after    t    desded in t ts iicide bomb, uncovered t of soup on tove,    table, s raising    tasting t breaking til o give in and ask ive y t afternoon.

        Dr. Urbino kneo realize t Fermina Daza    pass by til , but ayed    t ions of ternoon. Lorenzo Daza,    seem to notice tention, for isfied able eloquence. alked at full gallop, c cigar, cougs, trying to clear , attempting    difficulty to find a fortable position in t. te to ead    tood up to lig ,    one eye ed like a fis    correspond to t of    tions brougood up, iion t    belonged not to    to someoing, and o make a great effort not to lose his mind.

        It er seven o’clock io, idealized by ae, floated at ttom of an aquarium, and ts sleeping u st of need lamp on table, and tings . “ t t not    Fermina Daza did not    ing for    sernoon’s ion. tor did not renounce o    Lorenzo Daza did not suggest it. ’s tongue, eonsils, but ened by t sed to see    o try to see o trys, emitted a funereal s your eyes,” tor said aloud, turned around to ask    he had said.

        “It    me,”    te.”

        Lorenzo Daza apanied    to force o accept a gold peso for t, but    take it.    instrus to taking o tients ill o see, and o t    o feel sick as treets, so t o take a different route.     in t oo, ill t Fermina Daza. o , and fell asleep, and in o    er anots of St. Julian taler.

        “S,” ers able in tire being dis bell of t Caty space of t tend General Ignaaría, t grandson of truck do afternoon by a cerebral    olling. Dr. Juvenal Urbino listeo    , trying to rea ar anise vomit.

        “Moted range must o sate.”

        tra yet occurred. taking advantage of t of t Romeo Lussiatas as soon as ty    a ory-making sereo Fermina Daza. S measures, and s o look out ting on to knoribute. tted    ied ts on ted suitors. Lorenzo Daza, on t delay as t ill    cloto tors’ parlor, wh a glass of good brandy.

        Fermina Daza soon realized t rying to soften . ter to ed by an Urbino de la Calle.” urn over in ed old    Lorenzo Daza ed to lunc the Social Club by Dr. Juvenal Urbino, who had received a severe reprimand for breaking club rules.

        It    s    eacime ed    a    possible. But Lorenzo Daza e capacity for assimilating ions, and inued rategies fing casual enters    realizing t it    of o let ered. At times t ting in t time because Fermina Daza    permit anyto run its normal course until . termediate     Lorenzo Daza gave Juvenal Urbino    lessons in c pupil t    t tor-mented il th.

        One nig ter, its envelope sealed ryo    o er and ted on t uood     o     ter from a suitor. S it on t table, for trut knoo do , and t stayed, unopened, for several days, until one rainy afternoon o to give ongue depressor o examine . In tongue depressor    of aluminum but of a delietal t sasted    s in two unequal pieces and gave he smaller one.

        ter. It    Juvenal Urbino asked o request o visit s simplicity and seriousness, and tivated . S tter in ttom of runk, but s s Florentino Ariza’s perfumed letters took it out of t to find anot, s seemed t t det to do o pretend s received it, and s in tco blue bubbles above t it ime stle more t s about Florentino Ariza, and even s how removed he was from her life: poor man.

        tters arrived    rains in October, t of ttle box of violet pastilles from Flavigny Abbey. tor ed Gala Placidia from t so t t t tters ell    been received. Moreover, botten in tic scra Fermina Daza already reized as a ping. Botance , but undery one could begin to dete impatie    in tters of Florentino Ariza. Fermina Daza read t, and    knoo to t s of anshem.

        tter in October reet door, and    from ting    it     Fermina Daza did not realize t until text itself proved to be a poison peer. ten it took fra Fermina Daza s, and from t supposition sinister clusions    ended : if Fermina Daza did not renouo move up in t desirable man in ty, so public disgrace.

        S im of a grave injustice, but ion    vindictive. On trary: so discover o vinent explanations, for s certain t never, for any reason,    folloters, as perfidious as t, but none of to be ten by tim of a plot, or t love affair urbed by t it    of a simple indiscretion on t of Juvenal Urbino.

        It occurred to    per from    peralked too muaginary quests, as did so many ot about io reproac to    t t mig o learn more from ted    ts ing t furious, impotent, ed. In trast to ial feeling t sed to meet o vio cut o ribbons    sleepless nigails and pters in t. It o tions but not from their evil ones.

        tion became even more bitter after t    to    aer, but . It    in Martinique, acc to tag, and it e gos    closed its eyes    seemed so co Fermina Daza t s oo sleeping    at niger a time, ing dream t te dress s from t. Fermina Daza    none as frig imagi a man like Juvenal Urbino y. S: t not by    by an iti srying to solve t for a moment of Florentino Ariza,    t it made er s of iny’s darling: t he world.

        Dr. Urbino’s last resort ion of Sister Franca de la Luz, Superior of tation of t deny t of a family t ed y sis establis in t nine o’clo to amuse tallic at and an imperious gaze t ionso ed    o do y made scorpions cra of o revive torture of scerror of examinations, t life distorted by tual poverty.

        Sister Franca de la Luz, on ted    seemed sincere. S ured, and s aste evident in tio, to    fetting too close to t mig e spot alk alone ed o the drawing room.

        It ter visit. Sister Franca de la Luz, ing no time on formalities, offered atement to Fermina Daza. t only from t also from ty, and to finisudies and receive e degree. Fermina Daza ed to know why.

        “It is t of someone wo make you    is?”

        tood. S auty a ter served as t s dare to speak of it. Instead s man, and by token s    to interfere in her life.

        “All    you alloes,” said tain your father will agree.”

        Fermina Daza’s anger gree t o t.

        “e saw eacwice wo see eacher again.”

        “For any    man is a gift from Divine Providence,” said the nun.

        Sio speak of ues, of ion, of ion t t carved in marble, and da in front of Fermina Daza’s eyes. It was a family    IV.

        “It is yours,” she said.

        Fermina Daza felt then she dared.

        “I do not uand o t love is a sin.”

        Sister Franca de la Luz pretended not to notice t io da of Fermina Daza’s eyes.

        “It ter for you to e to an uanding er me es    is a different story h him.”

        “Let him e,” said Fermina Daza.

        Sister Franca de la Luz tucked to ook a ig, looking at Fermina Daza from a great distand ion.

        “My poor cill t t man.”

        Fermina Daza ce as s t blinking, looked raig speak-ing, cil se satisfa t tears. Sister Franca de la Luz dried tood up.

        “Your fat w you are a mule,” she said.

        t e. So t    day if    arrived to spend Cmas     five o’clo t s radiant, very muced after t at sea. Ses of live turkeys and all ts of ile lands so t no one ies, because    at o send a load of fireer on.     e for er before Marcy of time for to enjoy life.

        t once. From t afternoon togetions er from tern. ts, ttocks, t breasts, eac o judge    cruelty time reated t occasion ta’s, as s and curly as steel raigical beds placed in t at times togetalked in til da runk, and aftero burn Armenian paper to purify t be time in Valledupar, and inued in Fonsed Rioen cousins o talk about men and to smoke.

        So smoke bad in    nig ttes    betray t s befoing to sleep, and it    s alt, even from    only because it    improper for a o smoke in public but because sed th secrecy.

        rip s in an effort to put dista it o ced, o mock fetfulness as elegrapor in Foo se prudence. And t is ino Ariza. Moreover, ion of love, and s ed all ot till, s renou caused a crisis of dismay in Fermina Daza, s to telegrapending to ino Ariza.

        S     correspoo t first gla seemed impossible t    almost invisible clerk    perturb anyone’s . But sed of    impression, for Florentino Ariza placed    ional service    knoification or even for ion            a suggestion, and sino Ariza first made some cor-res bete t last tore up te a pletely ne s very touc telegrapears.

        “o Fermina Daza, “but he is all love.”

        most struck ude. Sold y. Aced te scattered families in ain ing at any given time,    imagine a girl o ter of a private life. t rue: from time s six in til surned out t in ted o killing time. Life , at ter crouous fruit sellers ables from María la Baja and fruit from San Jato.

        And t of t ttery tickets, ters of Cy, t bottles, t old gold, t neo read one’s destiny in cards, in ter i door to say no, anoting from to stop bot, ica    Fermina fused to t of loving ime so to iron t t, s t only s brigio maintain teen years before.

        But Fermina Daza    t,    o be done in every circumstance, and in t y noto be determined. ain t ted for not a loss. Often, after s siesta and not il t day. ting classes o kill time.

        ionsion si Escolástica, alto live toget boto ual of lunever ate, for tifs and Gali appetizers at tisfied    eat supper eit able, everyte covered by anot    eat it until t day ered    ened o any request s make for unforeseen expenses. ioned a penny s, ions, but so make an ating before tribunal of the holy Office.

        o    ture or dition of aken o , o det young ladies even if apanied by t e en o’clock at nigical periods of til t time ay at t in all salon games and a good teac disturbing er, despite t t    ae    regular intervals t t, ep on tair,    of , and for t time sened by ed eye and the slurring of his words.

        “e are ruined,” otal ruin, so now you know.”

        t o indicate rut after t nig ses o er t a neigo    a past, in tation of traders and stevedores, of er of tary men. In t year ting classes ed , for teaco t tances, and for Fermina Daza tion ended ed to open t, bring in les of gun-po, but s o no avail, and for a very simple reason: to invite.

        In any case, it o life. In ternoon, after ting classes, so be taken out to see ty. Fermina Daza se saken every day    Escolástica, ttle park eo read s along er palace er restored and verted into tation of ted ery, o tion of t sen to ire oric city, tresses among trail of islands in the immense Caribbean.

        On Cmas Eve t to Midnig ial music est clarity, and s spot ened eyes up close for t time. tured alone as far as t ss, t sold fancy paper, and Fermina Daza s    realized t every step sook from o s ty, every moment of    past, did not seem to exist except by tino Ariza. ed t to    s admit it because sted t Florentino Ariza, for better or for    o her in her life.

        It ime t a Belgian pograpo ty a up udio at to pay took advantage of tunity to ures taken. Fermina and . tied Fermina Sanc, t dresses, ty ss, and tury ladies. Gala Placidia s, so move is, o o button ts.    ric    model decorated ed plaster fruit and oline flo last to types of t off o ograpaken. Gala Placidia c on t ts    God s.

        t of tudio because po-grapaken of Beeno,    easy to pograpo ing stance for a tle as possible, but as soon as    up    into c resist temptation to please t urn, t, but to be poar ala-baster n    tionless for more time t al portrait.    Flores de María,    in a letter t ime. For many years Fermina Daza kept    page of a family album, t disappeared    anyone’s knoino Ariza, ty years old.

        of tudio, t eve te arc ted e-colored salve and t t appro-priate to time of day or treet greeted t-calls and mockery. trying to escape public derision, s opened a patcalls ceased and tile groups dispersed. et    sigboard: in top , , ures, tness in y of his presence.

        Altely. t erest, oernoon    to pass by topped in front of told tempted to explain tipat say a    ing    no more about    anding in t on tboard, s uand ives.

        “Please get in,” said Dr. Juvenal Urbino. “I ake you o go.”

        Fermina Daza began a gesture of refusal, but ed. Dr. Juvenal Urbino jumped doips, almost    touco ternative but to climb in after .

        t real-ize t Dr. Urbino rus to t     took t o reacs destination. t and    opposite turned o in ted, and Dr. Urbino o move, ss, timacy of terior, and s it seemed a nice place to spend t of one’s life. Very soon to laugo exat a simple    -sisted of plag a nonsense syllable after every ote Fermina did not uand t only uood but ening as er mucer,    sorture of s.

        “Not us see w.”

        o unlace s, a    easy for o do because tays in t did not allo Dr. Urbino dallied until sook s out from under    riump laug fis of a pond. t Fermina and sating sun. Suation in    to postpo    all restraint.

        “No my s this wire cage.”

        Dr. Urbino uood t so , and unity as it fleake it off.” its of a prestidigitator,    and covered .

        “I    look,” he said.

        ty of acips, and s    Fermina, and no terrified t s be capable of taking off .    s if t g of the moving carriage.

        “I am ing,” said tor.

        “You    look now,” said hildebranda.

        ood t t ended    a sign from uro t as ter    disturbed at t so tor ory    o s satin glove, Dr. Urbino squeezed her ring finger.

        “I am ing for your answer,” he said.

        ty glove    dan-gling in tor’s    s    to retrieve it. S to bed    eating. o ter ented on ts of ternoon. S attempt to o ent, but    one poiible desire to devour uro to offend, but smiling and , put ao tion:

        “ a whore you are!” she said.

        less; sting sulfurous sparks from bet o tery in a different carriage. Sed and less years sill o live. Later, ter as quickly as possible, folded it as quickly as possible, put it in an envelope as quickly as possible, and before    of t to Dr. Juvenal Urbino. It ters, not a syllable too many or too feor yes, o her.

        ino Ariza lear Fermina Daza o marry a pune, educated in Europe and raordinary reputation for a man of    could raise ration. tránsito Ariza did all sratagems of a s- to sole     ite and    ing again. to Don Leo XII Loayza, till alive, and    telling o give    all in tion pany, as long as it    lost in telegrapell    ty.    give    of defereo    bear tenate son, but    as a telegrapor in Villa de Leyva, a dreamy city more ty days’ journey a ters above treet of indows.

        Florentino Ariza    curative jour-ney.    alune. elegram inf ment, it did not even occur to o sider it, but Lotario t vinced s t a brilliant career aed ration. old elegrapure.”    fur, a    eppes, and an overcoat ried and proven in ters of Bavaria.

        Uncle Leo XII gave s and a pair of erproof boots t o    boat. tránsito Ariza altered t smaller for    ter t    o resist tain elands. Florentino Ariza, teo tions for tending to tions for icism o no o    of    t    tell anyone    say goodbye to anyone, but on ture ted,    of t t mig him his life.

        At midnig on    and    to stand alone under Fermina Daza’s baly to play tz o trated -plicity. ears, ion so inte    measures treet and ty began to    ttle by little, ted by tz ended in supernatural sile open, and no one appeared o, not even t c al to profit in some small    ino Ariza, for o its case as    looking back,    t    m but t ermination o return.

        t, one of tical vessels belonging to t ing tory    of five feet allo to iate ts    in ati in midtury on t traveled ts of t level er, eam engines and ters like    different s.

        On tain and ion and dining room, ed at least oo -class s o served as a on dining room, and in tting room open to t of t nigs, t    tead, tal paddles at tern, just undering toilets on tino Ariza    taken trouble to explore t raveling for t time did almost by instinct.    dusk, as t t of Calamar, o tern to urinate and saoilet, tic paddle eam.

        raveled before. in trunk ain elands, trated     in pamp form every mont o cardboard covers, and try t ed from memory and t    to crumble into dust    beified it too closely une, but o take ate, a very popular and practical bedroll, s pilloer d mosquito ing, all of trating tied wo hemp ropes for hanging a hammo an emergency.

        Florentino Ariza    ed to take it, for    it    provided bed and bed-clot from t nigo be grateful for    t moment, a passenger dressed in evening clot;    m on a sed to tinue    delay, along er and liveried servant and seven trunks tings, oo bulky for tair-o aodate ted travelers, tain, a giant from Cura?ao, called on trio-tism. In a jumble of Spanisois, o Floren-tino Ariza t tentiary from England, on o tal of t kingdle for independence from Spanis as a -sequeno sacrifice oo great if it ion to feel more at ry tino Ariza, of course, gave up his .

        At first    regret it, for t t time of year and t navigated    any difficulty for t t five o’clock, tributed folding vas cots to t ate, ao ing over t. t on tables in tableclot    crip. Florentino Ariza    of t, t ering to ude ion of t as it moved like a great animal til t rosy streaks appeared on ted pastureland and misty s anot t itude to endure fetting.

        After ter,    became more difficult to navigate betune sandbanks aive rapids. turned muddy and greangled jungle of colossal trees    to ts and ttering of to intensify t. At nig o an order to sleep, and t of being alive became unendurable. to t and toes rips of salted meat o dry on t of tilential stenc t s of predatory creatures oo dry t perspiration, and at daed and ses.

        Moreover, atent civil ives    t year, and tain aken very strict precautions to maintain internal order and pro-tect ty    to avoid misuandings and provocatioe pastime during river voyages in to s tors sunning ter on, , ed everyone’s ur tiser fit, igers.

        tris became even more drastic above t of tenerife, ain could not obtain any fur-tiarding t alarming sign because t respond to    t same day tered anot, tle for Jamaica, and    t tion of till o travel. ted from leaving t, not only in ts but even in ted places o take on    until t, a trip of six days, ts of prisoners, including templation of a packet of prapccards t circulated from o    anyone’s knoeran of t tiny sampling of tain’s legendary colle. But, in t dis-tra ation only increased tedium.

        Florentino Ariza eie    sorroo ion to o no o at tless alligators sunning to catcterflies, cartled    rose    ees t    large maternal teats and startled ted, green,    past, ting on t t by, one of t a ed in t’s    t-ing stenated his memory of Fermina Daza.

        t , good or bad, ionso    nig rated novels    by    u burning until daen regaiagonists ar-crossed lovers. On ots e anguisters and ttered ts over ter t floo difficult    times in timid prince or a paladin of love, at otimes in ting, until t breezes began to bloo doze in the railing.

        One nigopped racted, tooilets, a door opened as alon of a    sleeve and pulled o a . In t perspiration, o t, unbuttoned rousers, impaled ripped    glory, of y. Boto ttomless pit t smelled of a salt mars on top of o exist in the darkness.

        “No all about it,” shis never happened.”

        t riump t it could only be uood not as a sudden madness caused by boredom but as t of a plan elaborated over time and doo its smallest detail. tifyiainty increased Florentino Ariza’s eagerness, for at t of pleasure ion t    believe, t o admit,     pelled to discover tity of tress of violation in s    find tune. But    successful. On trary, to t from truth.

        t aken pla t , but ted    to it by a door, so t to family sleeping quarters s ure but very attractive, and an infant a fe y ineraries of teamboats because of tino Ariza iced the sleeping child in a large birdcage.

        traveling on a fasles us and lace gets and broad-brimmed s trimmed fits several times a day, so t to carry ing in t. All t tentions    eveermiionso one anot t first    t t be t t old enoug, and t sial m t t s imagi one of to do    saken advantage of a for-tuitous, or per    times tayed out for a breatil very late,    one nig    th gauze.

        Despite tangle of clues, Florentino Ariza sooed ty t t rator of t, and c, iful and t of t valid reasons, but only because ions of to accept as trut    t. t suppositio o t ensity t about Fermina Daza, ign t t moty-five, suguese eyelids t made isfied ender she lavished on her son.

        From breakfast until bedtime s so put o sleep s ignore    s fleo t sooner or later sray ure. c iste blouse as     dissimulatioeo read, aed imperti-nence of    t     fi    t s tory of t. t only because o    name: Rosalba.

        On t navigated    difficulty turbulent strait squeezed beter lunare. tion point for tio Antioquia, one of t affected by t sisted of s and a store made of    ected by several squads of barefoot and ill-armed soldiers because tion-ists to plus. Beo tory of uncultivated -iron ice at t    nig ttack did not materialize, and in t ransformed into a Sunday fair, agua amulets and love potions amid packs of animals ready to begin t to tral mountain range.

        Florentino Ariza passed time to tces of cers of Envigado, and    realize until it oo late t Rosalba and y ayed on sting sidesaddle, s and torial colors, and took tep    dared to take during, to Rosalba, and ty t cut o too late. ore, follorunks, tboxes, and ter days, dealt al blow.

        so e , o die for il t time ook possession of o God t tning of divine justice rike Fermina Daza as s to give o a man o rapture at tones of torrent of een bis of tar. Once ed, ed of    intact, distant but alive, because it    possible for o imagi her.

        sleep again, and if at times    doo pick at food, it    Fermina Daza    table or, versely, to deny ing for    times ainty t during toxication of ion, even during ts of , o least but one in a, - sed, and insulted would appear in s, and all royed.

        t before t of Caracolí, raditional farey, ra posed of creer from Great Britain oicism, sing    allo a nig by t    seen in evening dress in t o ty artans of tavisertai and taugerested o dance ional dances, and before daybreak    o be carried to ino Ariza, prostrate o t er of t rea Lotario t’s overcoat in an effort to overe t five t m, as t daion, and for t entire day    imagine, minute by minute, eacs at Fermina Daza’s er, ime and t everyt from w o laug asy.

        But in any case, it urday of passion,    o flee i to give to ts of t nigain, y or, and tor took tion of sending Florentino to tine     day, ed ts ed, be-cause in tives     give a damn about t future of telegrap ake t back to reet of indows.

        It    difficult to persuade to give urn passage in exco tative of Queen Victoria. tain also attempted to dissuade    telegrapure. So muc tem for installing it on boats. But ed all arguments, and in tain took    because    because    es to the Caribbean.

        trip doook less tino Ariza felt t    tered Mercedes Lagoon at da. It ill dark    for riverboats until t bato service. to    until six o’clo to board t of sloops for    o tination. But Florentino Ariza     t o temptation of a symbolic act: ate into ter, and follo    floated past ts of t t    again for all t of y of Fermina Daza.

        t daybreak. Above ting mist Florentino Ariza sa liges on t roofs, and orienti tune ill dozing, iated    idea broke , but o suppress it; on trary, ook pleasure in o gros    lay at ancless odors from t and tter on ttom of to oilential stenc arrived, and gangs of stevedores in er up to ts lifted to sino Ariza    to jump on land from t time oed tid reek of ty, but hing smelled of her.

        return to telegraperest seemed to be t io buy for    io read again and again, lying in il .    even ask for ablisions    friends, and sometimes tdoor cafés u    go back to turday nig ceive of t her.

        On turn from    Fermina Daza ed    took it fra s forever to e. tainty filled    ting.    of Rosalba,    ime t acips t    of    cire being, and tituting one love for anottle by little t and less intense, and at last it remained only in we gardenias.

        One niging, not knoioed ido te in royed by on fire during tán Obeso. It ránsito Ariza rol of tuation ao ext t t actually in t anot did not alloino Ariza    made love since    y to Rosalba in t, and in t seemed natural to    t s on tino Ariza    knoo do, and so speak to ime sossed til s even wearing her wedding ring.

        Sook off taffeta blouse    across to tossed o t, in garter belt and funereal stogs, and sil ted    remnants of     eacures seemed to be saluted by ttag troops, o its foundations. Florentino Ariza tried to en ays, but sicipated    maneuver, for in five years of matrimonial devotion so depend on ages, ies, sliding ts of a s last she was naked.

        Sy-eigimes, but act tement of an un-married ino Ariza o uand icles of peial clot y, to satisfy in a single assault tinence of    nigo han her dead husband.

        S permit y of remorse. On trary. Kept aio evoke    qualities until daybreak, not reproacy ot igated by ion t o     ers uhe ground.

        “I am ain    home.”

        t nigopped    passing termediate stage of blouses tle gray floed ted butterflies, and so so ask for it. roops of General Gaitán Obeso ed after a sixty-t t iful sea terrace t overlooked ter s fury during tormy season. t    irony,    a gift, as long as it    made of gold, and s no one could ed clusive evidenproper duct. On only one occasion did sed t Arce de Luna    died by act after eating a plate of poisonous mus eionally because seo expose ed in ations. As so say between peals of laughe province.

        t never missed ments ino Ariza, not even during    times, and it    pretensions of loving or being loved, alt resembled love, but    times    to o sit on terrace, drenc spray, cried to teacricks ra el, along ical formulations preacario t on s of debauchery.

        o let to replace tional missionary position ered angel, and t broke trying to devise someto no avail. trut sice but lacked all talent fuided fornication. Sood ty in bed, never    of iion, and une and epidermi uninspired lay. For a long time Florentino Ariza lived ion t    belief until so talk in tle by little, listening to ogetion c of less islands of    life. In t s    to marry    did feel joio itude to ed en said to him:

        “I adore you because you made me a whore.”

        Said in anot. Florentino Ariza ripped y of a ventional marriage, more pernicious tal virginity or tinence of    o perpetuate love. And somet from t time on o termined allotment of lays, and ever reason, one’s o o    t sook    ill, because    ter tino Ariza could not uand alking in bed about t for ion    could not be denied,    t endero make up for s. to see eaced rying to find sola ots for    last,    eacher.

        t ino Ariza’s first bedroom love. But instead of t union, of t, bot to embark on a profligate ino Ariza developed met seemed incredible in someone like aciturn and time. ages ly spotted ting for ed ion, for    t not ly identified ary man in need of love, a street beggar as    ditions,    asking     tranquillity of knooric battles of absolute secrecy, itle t said everyt notation . Fifty years later, ence, y-five notebooks, y-tries of long-term liaisons, apart from tless fleeting adve did not even deserve a cable note.

        After six mont, Florentino Ariza    orment of Fermina Daza.    only believed it,    several times ránsito Ariza during trip, and io believe it il oeful Sunday s, y and flattery of    first art    a name    out of to make oxicated tion of o su t Florentino Ariza needed a moment of refle t-nize her.

        Ss, t al bird--everyt inctive and fident, as if it iful and yout more lost to    uand    siated ty t to float above tfalls of reality. Flor-entino Ariza did not feel eit -tempt for    ply, inferior, and un only of    of any oth.

        So surned. S any reason to repent of trary, ser surviving ties of to    still trailing clouds of inno-ce. So lose t last al ceremony of ted to alking    naturalness about o live together.

        t ed into solitary love, range sensation of disc somet incts    in bed,    give    mule drivers’ cigarette. S ain pangs of sce, ed to ealy about t even about t despite tc rites, sill burdened by t ty was a bloody sacrifice.

        So t    spectacular of t tury,    inparably elegant young man of t ters again, some of tainis, but sook st notice of tered on    violation. Alt    ention, it    o respond to anonymous letters from a class aced by ts of ory to bos aplis. So t little by little tion as it became clear t ticed ttention paid is ament, tle Park of t    gifts.

        tránsito Ariza kne ime it caused    s al parties to ask o dig doo y-four    of additional i. It o tent it did noied so t t names could emerge from tuaries and, radiant in t a     of tury and e glory imes President of t, and auto tional ant time on, in some of t diaries. Fermina Daza came to tar of t ability.

        Ser at tar of t    eleven o’clo trinity, and    a single cable t for Florentino Ariza,     ser on a boat t    to carry etting. Duri tion, s seemed painted on e lead, a soulless grimace t some interpreted as a mog smile of victory, but iy empt at disguising terror of a virgin bride.

        It u unforeseen circumstances, bined anding, resolved t ts    pain. It ial. trans-atlantique, its itinerary upset by bad    its departure y-four    it    sail for La Roc six mont on t same nig t anot surprises to offer, for tion ended after midnigly lit o liner, ra t    ret zes by Jorauss on t various members of ty, soggy o be dragged aso ask teiion all to Paris. t to leave saside t taverns, sitting o, uxedo in ruins. remendous loud ting in a trickle of fouled er t migears.

        Not on t nigs of smoots occur t Fermina Daza e tateroom, t nigition of trip from Rio p sleep at all so     an overly distinguiso do for seasiess. But torm abated o of Guayra, and by t time t so mucime togetalked so muc t like old friends. On t,     pray befoing to sleep. Sy of taiao rituals, but act, and so maintain it in silence. S unication h God.”

        ood iced t, but a rat time: Dr. Urbino ed    a set. S ted o toucips before t    attempted to. It    calm nig still dressed, t    caresses    ion t s on dress seemed natural to    into to c first surned out ts in tateroom, and urn to bed in absolute dark-ness. As sh good humor:

        “ do you expect, Doctor? t time I    ranger.”

        Dr. Urbi    to artled little animal, trying to keep as far a for to be toget toucook cerror,    ions of otense again because o e. But o e took several ialking very sloer.

        o reet, on ter-races of to tanding up on t anyone disturbing tips,    t ension    attempt to raise go sopped ypical of er. So do it myself.” Sook it off, in fact, and till t Dr. Urbino mig s    been for t of he darkness.

        After a     still moist ender de and unmoving for a y to take t step and sing for it    kno    tip of ongue and grazed    al explosion as if ouc see t so t    fet t I’ve met t    and nehe darkness.

        “I remember it very    took     tle kisses, first tacarpus, tiny on o    a somet could not decip is a scapular.” S one by one and t to pull it out by ts. “ried, until s ing        alloo iead    and moved    ed strengtil s t breat bodily form, but eager a.

        trary to o    it lie i    instead so teet loud at o identify oucs size, trengts s, tension of its s determination but pitying its solitude, making it ailed curiosity t someone less experie rengto overe tigo of iny, until s ossing it into trash.

        “I o uand    thing works,” she said.

        tative met to o tioned and s to be moved    a propitious mome all of t. o turn it on, but ster y sed to turn on t as    sed to be to do it,    anyone’s    o, and sness, al positio.

        But cudy    ation, tur t, observed it erest t o seem more tifid said ed out otages more serious t is like a firstborn son: you spend your life    of trut as io exami, asking    t isfied io in boto firm t it did not    it drop ure of disdain.

        “Besides, I t oo many t,” she said.

        ouation    t: tage of simplifying t seemed antiquated to ed funs t ial in otages of t    in ours. Yes: it could be more simple and by token less vulnerable.    is somet only God    do, of course, but in a it o    establisical terms.” S and so mucural ook advantage of tunity to embrace    time on tinued giving    kisses on    and caressed , straig move    s    in t t ook oep further.

        “Let’s not go on he medical lesson,” she said.

        “No,” o be a lesson in love.”

        t and s only did not object but kicked it a of    because s.    aic, muc appeared    of a forest animal, o t lasted until th.

        love iness, rengty on , but as s time acle to ting true love. t speak of it t first nigil da. But in take.

        At da s be one mu fact, after augo dance Viennese zes uarry Caribbean sky,    to ter suro tateroom ing for    iative, and gave    fear,    regret, ure on traces of bloody ceremony except for t. t as if by miracle, and tio make love er eacime for t of t along as if they were old lovers.

        tayed in Europe,    trips to neigries. During t time ter Sundays    ime for lung impulses, and o let aake advantage of o be te one of terile, and tted torous examinations at tal de la Salpêtrière,     fruitless effort.    expected it, and ifitervention, turned        i uized in her who had died of cholera.

        It o kno    c time. t only bet    as Florentino Ariza perceived ter turn on t Sunday of uion of life, bringirends in to lead,    ret developments in literature, musid above all in ion to Le Figaro, so    lose toucy, and anoto t    lose toucry. o receive    ole Frand Pierre Loti, and by t, including Rémy de Gourmont and Paul Bet, but under no circumstances anytolerable despite    intervention in to mail    attractive scores from talogue,    title earned by est friend of certs in ty.

        Fermina Daza, alant to t back six trunks of clot periods, for t labels did not vince uileries in ter for tion by ortable tyrant of e couture, and t    kept entious and voracious to    o buy    s in t it    back quantities of Italian s brand names,    back a parasol from Dupuy, as red as to e about.

        S only one    from Madame Reboux, but on trunk ificial calks of all t floailfeatic roosters, entire ps, less variety of exotic birds preserved in midflig    ty years to cs. S back a colle of fans from tries all over te to a different occasion. S back a disturbing fragraé, before t s only once because s reize . S back a etic case t est tiveness, and sook it to parties at a time w of c.

        t back ted opening of tales of errifying blaze t destroyed almost all t. Mark’s Square in Venice, s from tel, and ting glimpse of Oscar ilde during t sno amid t ted not s came from udent in Paris. It or    o do    ually , t our stitution    for a nation not of men but of angels. From t time on, special o    of our many -patriots o France    out of to see udents, among tood guard for a time outside    t    last t a ten request for a private audien titution of Rionegro.

        to be passing t of te y,    tures, and    t seemed to belong to a larger man.     to ruin ti greeting: isfied    unreal vision t    of uro Paris as a married man, in a position to see ances, Victo had already died.

        As a solation, Juvenal Urbino and Fermina Daza brougernoon    defied torm outside a small books at last, elegant indeed but peroo scious of being so, t opped just to c ed to cross t    appropriate, given t t s iful gazelle-skin glove, long, smoot, t a man as refined as e ture. But ed ried to go despite s,    feel .

        “If you cross t street,” o    back here you will find me dead.”

        It ural in    tle girl in t, and sy for dealing ra left erious talent for making ood in Spaniso knoer. “But o uand you.” It    to imagine anyone o love    despite ternal raiurned ired of traveling, dro t h four words of Caribbean slang:

        “It’s not so much.”
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