百年孤独这本书怎么样 世纪文学经典:《百年孤独》第8章Part 5

世纪文学经典:《百年孤独》第8章Part 5  

Carmelita Montiel
a enty-year-old virgin
had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the shot rang out. Aureli-ano José had been destined to find with her the happiness that Amaranta had denied him
to have seven children
and to die in her arms of old age
but the bullet that entered his back and shattered his chest had been directed by a wrong interpretation of the cards. Captain Aquiles Ricardo
who was really the one destined to die that night
did indeed die
four hours before Aureli-ano José. As won as the shot was heard he was brought down by o simultaneous bullets whose origin was never established and a shout of many voices shook the night.
"Long live the Liberal party! Long live Colonel Aure-liano Buendía!"
At elve o'clock
when Aureli-ano
José had bled to death and Carmelita Montiel found that the cards showing her future were blank
more than four hundred men had filed past the theater and discharged their revolvers into the abandoned body of Captain Aquiles Ricardo. A patrol had to use a wheelbarrow to carry the body
which was heavy with lead and fell apart like a water-soaked loaf of bread.
Annoyed by the outrages of the regular army
General José Raquel used his political influence
put on his uniform again
and assumed the civil and military leadership of Macondo. He did not expect
however
that his conciliatory attitude would be able to prevent the inevitable. The news in September was contradictory. While the government announced that it was maintaining control throughout the country
the Liberals were receiving secret news of armed uprisings in the interior. The regime would not admit a state of war until it was proclaimed in a decree that had followed a court-martial which had condemned Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía to death in absentia. The first unit that captured him was ordered to carry the sentence out. "This means he's e back
" úrsula said joyfully to General . But he himself knew nothing about it.
Actually
Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía had been in the country for more than a month. He was preceded by conflicting rumors
supposed to be in the most distant places at the same time
and even General did not believe in his return until it was officially announced that he had seized o states on the coast. "Congratulations
dear friend
" he told úrsula
showing her the telegram. "You'll soon have him here." úrsula was worried then for the first time. "And what will you do?" she asked. General had asked himself that same question many times.
"The same as he
my friend
" he answered. "I'll do my duty."
At dawn on the first of October Colonel Aureli-ano Buendía attacked Macondo with a thousand well--armed men and the garrison received orders to resist to the end. At noon
while General was lunching with úrsula
a rebel cannon shot that echoed in the whole town blew the front of the municipal treasury to dust. "They're as well armed as we are
" General sighed
"but besides that they're fighting because they want to." At o o'clock in the afternoon
while the earth trembled with the artillery fire from both sides
he took leave of úrsula with the certainty that he was fighting a losing battle.
"I pray to God that you won't have Aureli-ano in the house tonight
" he said. "If it does happen that way
give him an embrace for me
because I don't expect ever to see him again."