Could be. I think though that Sollozzo gave him a little surprise. That fits in with
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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
what the Consigliori says. We should expect the worst."
49 Sonny said to all of them, "Sollozzo should get the word soon about Paulie
Gatto. How will that affect him?"
50 Clemenza said grimly, "It will make him think. He will know the Corleone
Family are not fools. He will realize that he was very lucky yesterday."
51 Sonny said sharply, "That wasn't luck. Sollozzo was planning that for weeks.
They must have tailed the old man to his office every day and watched his routine.
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Then they bought Paulie off and maybe Luca. They snatched Tom right on the
Button. They did everything they wanted to do. They were unlucky, not lucky.
Those button men they hired weren't good enough and the old man moved too
Quick. If they had killed him, I would have had to make a deal and Sollozzo would
Have won. For now. I would have waited maybe and got him five, ten years from
Now. But don't call him lucky, Pete, that's underrating him. And we've done that
too much lately."
One of the button men brought a bowl of spaghetti in from the kitchen and
Then some plates, forks and wine. They ate as they talked. Michael watched in
Amazement. He didn't eat and neither did Tom, but Sonny, Clemenza and Tessio
Dug in, mopping up sauce with crusts of bread. It was almost comical. They
Continued their discussion.
Tessio didn't think that the loss of Paulie Gatto would upset Sollozzo, in fact
He thought that the Turk might have anticipated it, indeed might have welcomed it.
A useless mouth off the payroll. And he would not be frightened by it; after all,
Would they be in such a situation?
54 Michael spoke up diffidently. "I know I'm an amateur in this, but from
Everything you guys have said about Sollozzo, plus the fact that all of a sudden
He's out of touch with Tom, I'd guess he has an ace up his sleeve. He might be
Ready to pull off something real tricky that would put him back on top. If we could
figure out what that would be, we'd be in the driver's seat."
55 Sonny said reluctantly, "Yeah, I thought of that and the only thing I can figure
Is Luca. The word is already out that he's to be brought here before he's allowed
Any of his old rights in the Family. The only other thing I can think of is that
Sollozzo has made his deal with the Families in New York and we'll get the word
Tomorrow that they will be against us in a war. That we'll have to give the Turk his
deal. Right, Tom?"
56 Hagen nodded. "That's what it looks like to me. And we can't move against
That kind of opposition without your father. He's the only one who can stand
Against the Families. He has the political connections they always need and he
can use them for trading. If he wants to badly enough."
Clemenza said, a little arrogantly for a man whose top button man had
recently betrayed him, "Sollozzo will never get near this house, Boss, you don't
have to worry about that."
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58 Sonny looked at him thoughtfully for a moment. Then he said to Tessio, "How
about the hospital, your men got it covered?"
For the first time during the conference Tessio seemed to be absolutely sure
of his ground. "Outside and inside," he said. "Right around the clock. The cops
Have it covered pretty good too. Detectives at the bedroom door waiting to
Question the old man. That's a laugh. The Don is still getting that stuff in the
Tubes, no food, so we don't have to worry about the kitchen, which would be
Something to worry about with those Turks, they believe in poison. They can't get
at the Don, not in any way."
60 Sonny tilted back in his chair. "It wouldn't be me, they have to do business
with me, they need the Family machine." He grinned at Michael. "I wonder if it's
You? Maybe Sollozzo figures to snatch you and hold you for a hostage to make a
deal."
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