When Michael Corleone went into the city that night it was with a depressed
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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
Spirit. He felt that he was being enmeshed in the Family business against his will
And he resented Sonny using him even to answer the phone. He felt
Uncomfortable being on the inside of the Family councils as if he could be
Absolutely trusted with such secrets as murder. And now, going to see Kay, he
Felt guilty about her also. He had never been completely honest with her about his
Family. He had told her about them but always with little jokes and colorful
Anecdotes that made them seem more like adventurers in a Technicolor movie
Than what they really were. And now his father had been shot down in the street
And his eldest brother was making plans for murder. That was putting it plainly
And simply but that was never how he would tell it to Kay. He had already said his
father being shot was more like an "accident" and that all the trouble was over.
Hell, it looked like it was just beginning. Sonny and Tom were off-center on this
Guy Sollozzo, they were still underrating him, even though Sonny was smart
Enough to see the danger. Michael tried to think what the Turk might have up his
Sleeve. He was obviously a bold man, a clever man, a man of extraordinary force.
You had to figure him to come up with a real surprise. But then Sonny and Tom
And Clemenza and Tessio were all agreed that everything was under control and
they all had more experience than he did. He was the "civilian" in this war,
Michael thought wryly. And they'd have to give him a hell of a lot better medals
Than he'd gotten in World War II to make him join this one.
Thinking this made him feel guilty about not feeling more sympathy for his
Father. His own father shot full of holes and yet in a curious way Michael, better
Than anyone else, understood when Tom had said it was just business, not
Personal. That his father had paid for the power he had wielded all his life, the
Respect he had extorted from all those around him.
What Michael wanted was out, out of all this, to lead his own life. But he
Couldn't cut loose from the family until the crisis was over. He had to help in a
Civilian capacity. With sudden clarity he realized that he was annoyed with the
Role assigned to him, that of the privileged noncombatant, the excused
conscientious objector. That was why the word "civilian" kept popping into his
Skull in such an irritating way.
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When he got to the hotel, Kay was waiting for him in the lobby. (A couple of
Clemenza's people had driven him into town and dropped him off on a nearby
Corner after making sure they were not followed.)
5 They had dinner together and some drinks. "What time are you going to visit
your father?" Kay asked.
6 Michael looked at his watch. "Visiting hours end at eight-thirty. I think I'll go
After everybody has left. They'll let me up. He has a private room and his own
Nurses so I can just sit with him for a while. I don't think he can talk yet or even
know if I'm there. But I have to show respect."
7 Kay said quietly, "I feel so sorry for your father, he seemed like such a nice
Man at the wedding. I can't believe the things the papers are printing about him.
I'm sure most of it's not true."
8 Michael said politely, "I don't think so either." He was surprised to find himself
So secretive with Kay. He loved her, he trusted her, but he would never tell her
Anything about his father or the Family. She was an outsider.
9 "What about you?" Kay asked. "Are you going to get mixed up in this gang
war the papers are talking about so gleefully?"
10 Michael grinned, unbuttoned his jacket and held it wide open. "Look, no
guns," he said. Kay laughed.
It was getting late and they went up to their room. She mixed a drink for both
Of them and sat on his lap as they drank. Beneath her dress she was all silk until
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