Amerigo Bonasera followed Hagen into the corner room of the house and
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- Bones of his skull, Bonasera turned to his still uncomprehending wife and
- He needed and a love he still trusted. His Godfather Corleone.
- Such an affair. The Godfather. Don Corleone.
- Observer might easily have thought the Don himself was the lucky groom.
- Standing at the door with him were two of his three sons. The eldest, baptized
- The washed-out rag of an American girl.
- Two sons to the wedding feast.
- Family. They would have to take care of him.
- Landing above, beckoning her upward.
- Corner room, Thomas Hagen watched the wedding party in the festooned garden.
- Disappearing into the garden.
- Don Corleone nodded and gestured that Luca Blasi should be brought to him.
- Story about Luca?' and Tom said, 'When you're a hundred.’ Michael sipped his
- Polite stretching of rubbery, veal-colored lips.
- Refuse a request on his daughter's wedding day. And no Sicilian ever lets a
- Lucy Mancini lifted her pink gown off the floor and ran up the steps. Sonny
- Treacherously triumphant, as if she had stolen a treasure from the bride.
- Amerigo Bonasera followed Hagen into the corner room of the house and
- Bonasera hesitated, then bent down and put his lips so close to the Don's hairy
- Don Corleone rose from behind the desk. His face was still impassive but his
- Sonny Corleone pressed close to the window. What he saw made him move
- Corleone led him into the house.
- Won't take me back unless I come crawling on my hands and knees, and I can't
- Never says anything against you. You couldn't help him a bit? Why not? He sings
- Hagen sat behind the desk and made notes. The Don heaved a sigh and asked,
- Hagen made a face of impressed approval that was very strangely Italian on
- When Johnny Fontane appeared in the garden, Kay Adams recognized him
- Favors. Someday he'll be at each one of those people's houses and they had
- Something special. Go your own way now, you're a man after all. But come to me
- Others into the sick man's room.
- Genco Abbandando had run a long race with death, and now, vanquished, he
- And criminal traitor to man.
- Spitball he was holding in his hand across to the clerk, who picked it up and
- Following Friday. But Hagen knew that to the Don, both were of equal importance,
- Any grown man could reasonably expect, and he found life interesting.
- Marines the day after Pearl Harbor.
- And his benefactor's blood family.
- Their lives or until they accepted defeat and returned to their home towns.
- Jack Woltz was a tall, powerfully built man with a heavy paunch almost
- A personal friend of mine. If I let him know I'm being pressured, you guys will
- Hagen listened patiently. He had expected better from a man of Woltz's stature.
- Than he had appeared this morning.
- Going to race him, I'm going to put him to stud. I'm going to build the greatest
- Much too sensitive. He never asks a second favor where he has been refused the
- Make me ridiculous. A man in my position, Mr. Hagen, can't afford to look
- For the first time, Woltz succeeded in astounding Hagen. He found it
- Naturally, anxious to show their gratitude.
- Were one hundred thousand black Chevy sedans in New York City.
- Tom Hagen went to his law office in the city on Thursday morning. He planned
- Threat against Don Corleone himself. Genius had its rewards.
Found Don Corleone sitting behind a huge desk. Sonny Corleone was standing by
The window, looking out into the garden. For the first time that afternoon the Don
Behaved coolly. He did not embrace the visitor or shake hands. The sallow-faced
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Undertaker owed his invitation to the fact that his wife and the wife of the Don
Were the closest of friends. Amerigo Bonasera himself was in severe disfavor
With Don Corleone.
2 Bonasera began his request obliquely and cleverly. "You must excuse my
Daughter, your wife's goddaughter, for not doing your family the respect of
coming today. She is in the hospital still." He glanced at Sonny Corleone and
Tom Hagen to indicate that he did not wish to speak before them. But the Don
Was merciless.
3 "We all know of your daughter's misfortune," Don Corleone said. "If I can help
Her in any way, you have only to speak. My wife is her godmother after all. I have
never forgotten that honor." This was a rebuke. The undertaker never called Don
Corleone "Godfather" as custom dictated.
4 Bonasera, ashen-faced, asked, directly now, "May I speak to you alone?"
5 Don Corleone shook his head. "I trust these two men with my life. They are my
two right arms. I cannot insult them by sending them away."
The undertaker closed his eyes for a moment and then began to speak. His
voice was quiet, the voice he used to console the bereaved. "I raised my daughter
In the American fashion. I believe in America. America has made my fortune. I
Gave my daughter her freedom and yet taught her never to dishonor her family.
She found a 'boy friend,' not an Italian. She went to the movies with him. She
Stayed out late. But he never came to meet her parents. I accepted all this without
A protest, the fault is mine. Two months ago he took her for a drive. He had a
Masculine friend with him. They made her drink whiskey and then they tried to
Take advantage of her. She resisted. She kept her honor. They beat her. Like an
Animal. When I went to the hospital she had two black eyes. Her nose was broken.
Her jaw was shattered. They had to wire it together. She wept through her pain.
'Father, Father, why did they do it? Why did they do this to me?' And I wept."
Bonasera could not speak further, he was weeping now though his voice had not
Betrayed his emotion.
Don Corleone, as if against his will, made a gesture of sympathy and Bonasera
went on, his voice human with suffering. "Why did I weep? She was the light of
My life, an affectionate daughter. A beautiful girl. She trusted people and now she
will never trust them again. She will never be beautiful again." He was trembling,
His sallow face flushed an ugly dark red.
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8 "I went to the police like a good American. The two boys were arrested. They
Were brought to trial. The evidence was overwhelming and they pleaded guilty.
The judge sentenced them to three years in prison and suspended the sentence.
They went free that very day. I stood in the courtroom like a fool and those
Bastards smiled at me. And then I said to my wife: 'We must go to Don Corleone
for justice.' "
The Don had bowed his head to show respect for the man's grief. But when he
spoke, the words were cold with offended dignity. "Why did you go to the police?
Why didn't you come to me at the beginning of this affair?"
10 Bonasera muttered almost inaudibly, "What do you want of me? Tell me what
you wish. But do what I beg you to do." There was something almost insolent in
His words.
11 Don Corleone said gravely, "And what is that?"
Bonasera glanced at Hagen and Sonny Corleone and shook his head. The
Don, still sitting at Hagen's desk, inclined his body toward the undertaker.
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