Hagen sat behind the desk and made notes. The Don heaved a sigh and asked,
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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.
"Is there anything else?"
2 "Sollozzo can't be put off any more. You'll have to see him this week." Hagen
Held his pen over the calendar.
3 The Don shrugged. "Now that the wedding is over, whenever you like."
This answer told Hagen two things. Most important, that the answer to Virgil
Sollozzo would be no. The second, that Don Corleone, since he would not give
The answer before his daughter's wedding, expected his no to cause trouble.
5 Hagen said cautiously, "Shall I tell Clemenza to have some men come live in
the house?"
6 The Don said impatiently, "For what? I didn't answer before the wedding
Because on an important day like that there should be no cloud, not even in the
Distance. Also I wanted to know beforehand what he wanted to talk about. We
know now. What he will propose is an infamita. "
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7 Hagen asked, "Then you will refuse?" When the Don nodded, Hagen said, "I
think we should all discuss it – the whole Family – before you give your answer."
8 The Don smiled. "You think so? Good, we will discuss it. When you come back
From California. I want you to fly there tomorrow and settle this business for
Johnny. See that movie pezzonovante. Tell Sollozzo I will see him when you get
back from California. Is there anything else?"
9 Hagen said formally, "The hospital called. Consigliori Abbandando is dying, he
won't last out the night. His family was told to come and wait."
10 Hagen had filled the Consigliori ’s post for the past year, ever since the cancer
Had imprisoned Genco Abbandando in his hospital bed. Now he waited to hear
Don Corleone say the post was his permanently. The odds were against it. So
High a position was traditionally given only to a man descended from two Italian
Parents. There had already been trouble about his temporary performance of the
Duties. Also, he was only thirty-five, not old enough, supposedly, to have
acquired the necessary experience and cunning for a successful Consigliori.
11 But the Don gave him no encouragement. He asked, "When does my
daughter leave with her bridegroom?"
12 Hagen looked at his wristwatch. "In a few minutes they'll cut the cake and
then a half hour after that." That reminded him of something else. "Your new son-
in-law. Do we give him something important, inside the Family?"
13 He was surprised at the vehemence of the Don's answer. "Never." The Don hit
the desk with the flat of his hand. "Never. Give him something to earn his living, a
Good living. But never let him know the Family's business. Tell the others, Sonny,
Fredo, Clemenza."
14 The Don paused. "Instruct my sons, all three of them, that they will
Accompany me to the hospital to see poor Genco. I want them to pay their last
Respects. Tell Freddie to drive the big car and ask Johnny if he will come with us,
as a special favor to me." He saw Hagen look at him questioningly. "I want you to
Go to California tonight. You won't have time to go see Genco. But don't leave
until I come back from the hospital and speak with you. Understood?"
15 "Understood," Hagen said. "What time should Fred have the car waiting?"
16 "When the guests have left," Don Corleone said. "Genco will wait for me."
17 "The Senator called," Hagen said. "Apologizing for not coming personally but
That you would understand. He probably means those two FBI men across the
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Street taking down license numbers. But he sent his gift over by special
messenger."
The Don nodded. He did not think it necessary to mention that he himself had
warned the Senator not to come. "Did he send a nice present?"
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