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"The Arabs compromised a community of peaceful immigrants who had settled at the beginning of the century in Caribbean towns, even in the poorest and most remote" (81).
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"She'd been seduced by Ibrahim Nasar in the fullness of her adolescence" (9).
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"[He was] happy with his father until the latter died suddenly, three years before" (7).
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"Bayardo San Román, the man who had given back his bride, had turned up for the first time in August of the year before: six months before the wedding" (25).
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"'When I wake up,' he said, 'remind me that I'm going to marry her'" (29)
"...Angela Vicario and Bayardo San Román had seen each other for the first time on the national holiday in October during a charity bazaar at which she was in charge of singing out the raffle numbers" (29). -
"On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on" (3).
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"The only unforeseen surprise was on the morning of the wedding, for he was two hours late in coming for Angela Vicario and she had refused to get dressed as a bride until she saw him in the house" (40).
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"Many knew that in the confusion of the bash I had proposed marriage to Mercedes Barcha as soon as she finished primary school" (43).
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"But not only had he sold the house with everything in it; he asked Bayardo San Román to pay him little by little because he didn't even have an old trunk where he could keep so much consolation money" (37).
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"Angela Vicario, the beautiful girl who'd gotten married the day before, had been returned to the house of her parents, because her husband had discovered that she wasn't a virgin" (21).
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"At six in the afternoon, while they were performing the autopsy on Santiago Nasar's corpse, the mayor was summoned because Pedro Vicario was convinced that his brother had been poisoned" (80).
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In the panopticon of Riohacha, where they spent three years awaiting trial because they couldn't afford bail" (49).
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"From then on she was no longer conscious of what she wrote nor to whom she was really writing to, but she kept on without quarter for seventeen years" (95).
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In the panopticon of Riohacha, where they spent three years awaiting trial because they couldn't afford bail" (49).
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"Many knew that in the confusion of the bash I had proposed marriage to Mercedes Barcha as soon as she finished primary school, just as she herself would remind me fourteen years later when we got married" (43-44).
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"Bayardo San Román took a step forward, unconcerned, about the other astonished embroiderers, and laid his saddlebags on the sewing machines.
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"Everything we know about his character has been learned from the brief, which several people helped me look for twenty years later in the Palace of Justice in Riohacha" (98).
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"Plácida Linero, his mother, told me twenty-seven years later" (3).