Want it to be Paulie either.
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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
27 He shook his head. "Neither one of them," he said. But he said it only
Because Sonny had said he had the answer. If it had been a vote, he would have
Voted Paulie guilty.
28 Sonny was smiling at him. "Don't worry," he said. "Clemenza is OK. It's
Paulie."
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29 Michael could see that Tessio was relieved. As a fellow caporegime his
Sympathy would be with Clemenza. Also the present situation was not so serious
if treachery did not reach so high. Tessio said cautiously, "Then I can send my
people home tomorrow?"
30 Sonny said, "The day after tomorrow. I don't want anybody to know about
This until then. Listen, I want to talk some family business with my brother,
Personal. Wait out in the living room, eh? We can finish our list later. You and
Clemenza will work together on it."
31 "Sure," Tessio said. He went out.
32 "How do you know for sure it's Paulie?" Michael asked.
33 Sonny said, "We have people in the telephone company and they tracked
Down all of Paulie's phone calls in and out Clemenza's too. On the three days
Paulie was sick this month he got a call from a street booth across from the old
Man's building. Today too. They were checking to see if Paulie was coming down
Or somebody was being sent down to take his place. Or for some other reason. It
doesn't matter." Sonny shrugged. "Thank God it was Paulie. We'll need Clemenza
bad."
34 Michael asked hesitantly, "Is it going to be an all-out war?"
35 Sonny's eyes were hard. "That's how I'm going to play it as soon as Tom
checks in. Until the old man tells me different."
36 Michael asked, "So why don't you wait until the old man can tell you?"
37 Sonny looked at him curiously. "How the hell did you win those combat
Medals? We are under the gun, man, we gotta fight. I'm just afraid they won't let
Tom go."
38 Michael was surprised at this. "Why not?"
39 Again Sonny's voice was patient "They snatched Tom because they figured
The old man was finished and they could make a deal with me and Tom would be
The sit-down guy in the preliminary stages, carry the proposition. Now with the
Old man alive they know I can't make a deal so Tom's no good to them. They can
Turn him loose or dump him, depending how Sollozzo feels. If they dump him, it
would be just to show us they really mean business, trying to bulldoze us."
40 Michael said quietly, "What think he could get a deal with you?"
41 Sonny flushed and he didn't answer for a moment. Then he said, "We had a
Meeting a few months ago, Sollozzo came to us with a proposition on drugs. The
Old man turned him down. But during the meeting I shot off my mouth a little, I
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Showed I wanted the deal. Which is absolutely the wrong thing to do; if there's
One thing the old man hammered into me it's never to do a thing like that, to let
Other people know there's a split of opinion in the Family. So Sollozzo figures he
Gets rid of the old man, I have to go in with him on the drugs. With the old man
Gone, the Family power is cut at least in half. I would be fighting for my life
Anyway to keep all the businesses the old man got together. Drugs are the
Coming thing, we should get into it. And his knocking off the old man is purely
Business, nothing personal. As a matter of business I would go in with him. Of
Course he would never let me get too close, he'd make sure I'd never get a clean
Shot at him, just in case. But he also knows that once I accepted the deal the
Other Families would never let me start a war a couple of years later just for
revenge. Also, the Tattaglia Family is behind him."
42 "If they had gotten the old man, what would you have done?" Michael asked.
43 Sonny said very simply, "Sollozzo is dead meat. I don't care what it costs. I
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