When Michael Corleone arrived at his father's house in Long Beach he found
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- 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.
- Be made to tell who had done the buying.
- Producer of the film telling him to report for work the following Monday.
- For any rap as long as he knows that they will be well taken care of for living
- Notoriously straitlaced in matters of sex.
- Legal protection is a must. I hear, Don Corleone, that you have as many judges in
- His leather armchair and motioned brusquely for a drink. Hagen poured him a
- Without a shred of trust Hagen got into the car.
- Michael Corleone had lied to Hagen. He was already in New York, and he had
- Worrying Sonny Corleone out in Long Beach.
- At a quarter to five that afternoon, Don Corleone had finished checking the
- Passed. They disappeared around the corner, leaving Freddie alone in the street
- In the half hour after the shooting of his father, Sonny Corleone received five
- It was Clemenza. The fat man's voice came wheezing over the phone in
- His mother looked at him steadily for a moment and then asked in Italian,
- Could be but one outcome. But again the nagging worry. Where was Luca Brasi?
- Counting the driver, there were four men in the car with Hagen. They put him
- And suddenly Hagen knew that he was no longer going to be set free. That
- When Michael Corleone arrived at his father's house in Long Beach he found
- Young to know about it and then things got pretty smooth while you were
- Want it to be Paulie either.
- Don't care if we have to fight all the five families in New York. The Tattaglia Family
- It was nearly four o'clock in the morning as they all sat in the corner room
- Brasi's number and kept the receiver to his ear as it rang and rang.
- Peter Clemenza slept badly that night. In the morning he got up early and
- Impressive apprenticeship in the Family. During the war he had been wounded in
- If displeased with him. With a man so sensitive and suspicious as Gatto this
- Talk about that later. You understand the Family now is occupied with more
- Bronx to his home in Manhattan.
- On the night before the shooting of Don Corleone, his strongest and most
- Meeting was not as outlandish as it seemed.
- Humanity remaining to him. He was dead.
- The day after the shooting of Don Corleone was a busy time for the Family.
- Could be. I think though that Sollozzo gave him a little surprise. That fits in with
- Bulletproof vest in his hands. Wrapped In the vest was a huge dead fish.
- When Michael Corleone went into the city that night it was with a depressed
- Years passed, she would not have been able to bear the anguish of it.
- When Michael got out of the cab in front of the French Hospital he was
- Before, in terrible pain, yet smiled benevolently on his youngest son, wanting to
- Too tight for them. They sat leaning forward, their elbows on the counter.
- George opened the slit that opened back into the kitchen. “Sam,” he called.
- Door into the kitchen and untied Nick and the cook.
- Outside the arc-light shone through the bare branches of a tree. Nick walked up
The narrow entrance mouth of the mall blocked off with a link chain. The mall
Itself was bright with the floodlights of all eight houses, outlining at least ten cars
Parked along the curving cement walk.
Two men he didn't know were leaning against the chain. One of them asked in
a Brooklyn accent, "Who're you?"
He told them. Another man came out of the nearest house and peered at his
face. "That's the Don's kid," he said. "I'll bring him inside." Mike followed this
Man to his father's house, where two men at the door let him and his escort pass
Inside.
The house seemed to be full of men he didn't know, until he went into the
Living room. There Michael saw Tom Hagen's wife, Theresa, sitting stiffly on the
Sofa, smoking a cigarette. On the coffee table in front of her was a glass of
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whiskey. On the other side of the sofa sat the bulky Clemenza. The caporegime's
Face was impassive, but he was sweating and the cigar in his hand glistened
Slickly black with his saliva.
5 Clemenza came to wring his hand in a consoling way, muttering, "Your mother
is at the hospital with your father, he's going to be all right." Paulie Gatto stood
Up to shake hands. Michael looked at him curiously. He knew Paulie was his
Father's bodyguard but did not know that Paulie had stayed home sick that day.
But he sensed tension in the thin dark face. He knew Gatto's reputation as an up-
And-coming man, a very quick man who knew how to get delicate jobs done
Without complications, and today he had failed in his duty. He noticed several
Other men in the corners of the room but he did not recognize them. They were
Not of Clemenza's people. Michael put these facts together and understood.
Clemenza and Gatto were suspect. Thinking that Paulie had been at the scene, he
asked the ferret-faced young man, "How is Freddie? He OK?"
6 "The doctor gave him a shot," Clemenza said. "He's sleeping."
Michael went to Hagen's wife and bent down to kiss her cheek. They had
always liked each other. He whispered, "Don't worry, Tom will be OK. Have you
talked to Sonny yet?"
Theresa clung to him for a moment and shook her head. She was a delicate,
Very pretty woman, more American than Italian, and very scared. He took her
Hand and lifted her off the sofa. Then he led her into his father's corner room
Office.
Sonny was sprawled out in his chair behind the desk holding a yellow pad in
One hand and a pencil in the other. The only other man in the room with him was
the caporegime Tessio, whom Michael recognized and immediately realized that it
Must be his men who were in the house and forming the new palace guard. He
Too had a pencil and pad in his hands.
When Sonny saw them he came from behind his desk and took Hagen's wife
in his arms. "Don't worry, Theresa," he said. "Tom's OK. They just wanta give him
The proposition, they said they'd turn him loose (отпустят). He's not on the
Operating end, he's just our lawyer. There's no reason for anybody to do him
harm."
He released Theresa and then to Michael's surprise he too, got a hug and a
kiss on the cheek. He pushed Sonny away and said grinning, "After I get used to
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you beating me up I gotta put up with this?" They had often fought when they
Were younger.
12 Sonny shrugged. "Listen, kid, I was worried when I couldn't get ahold of you
In that hick town. Not that I gave a crap if they knocked you off, but I didn't like
the idea of bringing the news to the old lady. I had to tell her about Pop."
13 "How'd she take it?" Michael asked.
14 "Good," Sonny said. "She's been through it before. Me too. You were too
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