百年孤独这本书怎么样 世纪文学经典:《百年孤独》第11章Part 8

世纪文学经典:《百年孤独》第11章Part 8  

In February
when the sixteen sons of Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía returned
still marked with the cross of ashes
Aureli-ano Triste spoke to them about Rebeca in the tumult of the celebration and in half a day they restored the appearance of the house
changing doors and windows
painting the front with gay colors
bracing walls and pouring fresh cement on the floor
but they could not get any authorization to continue the work inside. Rebeca did not even e to the door. She let them finish the mad restoration
then calculated what it had cost and sent Argénida
her old servant who was still with her
to them with a handful of coins that had been withdrawn from circulation after the last war and that Rebeca thought were still worth something it was then that they saw to what a fantastic point her separation from the world had arrived and they understood that it would be impossible to rescue her from her stubborn enclosure while she still had a breath of life in her.
On the second visit by the sons of Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía to Macon-do
another of them
Aureli-ano Cen-teno
stayed on to work with Aureli-ano Triste. He was one of the first who had been brought to the house for baptism and úrsula and Amaranta remembered him very well because in a few hours he had destroyed every breakable object that passed through his hands. Time had moderated his early impulse for growth and he was a man of average height marked by smallpox scars
but his amazing power for manual destruction remained intact. He broke so many plates
even without touching them
that Fernanda decided to buy him a set of pewterware before he did away with the last pieces of her expensive china
and even the resistant metal plates were soon dented and isted. But to make up for that irremediable power
which was exasperating even for him
he had a cordiality that won the immediate confidence of others and a stupendous capacity for work. In a short time he had increased the production of ice to such a degree that it was too much for the local market and Aureli-ano Triste had to think about the possibility of expanding the business to other towns in the swamp. It was then that he thought of the decisive step
not only for the modernization of his business but to link the town with the rest of the world.
"We have to bring in the railroad
" he said.
That was the first time that the word had ever been heard in Macon-do.