Kemudian dia menyuruhnya melihat ke kamar tidur dan Aureliano Segundo melihat bagal. Kulitnya menempel pada tulang -tulangnya seperti nyonya, tetapi itu sama hidup dan tegas seperti dia. Petra Cotes telah memberinya makan dengan murka, dan ketika tidak ada lagi jerami atau jagung atau akar, dia telah memberinya berlindung di kamarnya sendiri dan memberi makan di lembaran perkala, karpet Persia, seprai mewah, seprai, gantungan beludru, dan kanopi disiram dengan benang emas dan rumbai silk di ranjang episcopal.

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(Then she told him to look in the bedroom and Aureliano Segundo saw the mule. Its skin was clinging to its bones like that of its mistress, but it was just as alive and resolute as she. Petra Cotes had fed it with her wrath, and when there was no more hay or corn or roots, she had given it shelter in her own bedroom and fed it on the percale sheets, the Persian rugs, the plush bedspreads, the velvet drapes, and the canopy embroidered with gold thread and silk tassels on the episcopal bed.)