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BOOK IBehind every great fortune there is a crime.--BALZAC6
Chapter 1Amerigo Bonasera sat in New York Criminal Court Number 3 and waited for justice;vengeance on the men who had so cruelly hurt his daughter, who had tried to dishonor her.The judge, a formidably heavy-featured man, rolled up the sleeves of his black robe as ifto physically chastise the two young men standing before the bench. His face was cold withmajestic contempt. But there was something false in all this that Amerigo Bonasera sensed butdid not yet understand.“You acted like the worst kind of degenerates,” the judge said harshly. Yes, yes, thoughtAmerigo Bonasera. Animals. Animals. The two young men, glossy hair crew cut, scrubbedclean-cut faces composed into humble contrition, bowed their heads in submission.The judge went on. “You acted like wild beasts in a jungle and you are fortunate you didnot sexually molest that poor girl or I’d put you behind bars for twenty years.” The judge paused,his eyes beneath impressively thick brows flickered slyly toward the sallow-faced AmerigoBonasera, then lowered to a stack of probation reports before him. He frowned and shrugged asif convinced against his own natural desire. He spoke again.“But because of your youth, your clean records, because of your fine families, andbecause the law in its majesty does not seek vengeance, I hereby sentence you to three years’confinement to the penitentiary. Sentence to be suspended.”Only forty years of professional mourning kept the overwhelming frustration and hatredfrom showing on Amerigo Bonasera’s face. His beautiful young daughter was still in the hospitalwith her broken jaw wired together; and now these two animales went free? It had all been afarce. He watched the happy parents cluster around their darling sons. Oh, they were all happynow, they were smiling now.The black bile, sourly bitter, rose in Bonasera’s throat, overflowed through tightlyclenched teeth. He used his white linen pocket handkerchief and held it against his lips. He wasstanding so when the two young men strode freely up the aisle, confident and cool-eyed, smiling,not giving him so much as a glance. He let them pass without saying a word, pressing the freshlinen against his mouth.The parents of the animales were coming by now, two men and two women his age but7
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Page 25 and 26: Don Corleone, as if against his wil
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two hands around Wagner’s head li
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hours in the evening were all the y
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Hagen opened the folder that held h
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notoriously straitlaced in matters
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held a dismissal. “Young people a
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Without a shred of trust Hagen got
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Both phones in the Long Beach house
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Freddie had heard his father shout,
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proposition. Don’t do anything ra
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then go out and up to the bedroom.
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You know it’s the smart thing to
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On the coffee table in front of her
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could have been Paulie Gat to, who
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would never let me start a war a co
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Sonny nodded. “The cops have it l
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Chapter 6Peter Clemenza slept badly
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over the heads of more deserving an
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it with mattresses. That apartment
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the swamp. He and Clemenza walked h
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Christmas present for the Don. In h
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stayed by the phone relaying messag
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kitchen cooking up a huge pot of to
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Hagen said quietly, “Sollozzo was
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insurance. But everybody knows that
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Michael said politely, “I don’t
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office. “Oh, your father just had
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the lamplight but Michael could not
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in his skull. His mouth filled with
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get out with his life.” Hagen pau
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down a New York police captain and
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eincarnation of Don Corleone himsel
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smiled at his brother. “Now stick
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policemen. They all went to Fordham
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Michael spent the day with Clemenza
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Sonny said, “Easy, Mike, now is n
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Sonny had been listening judiciousl
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time. Michael flinched as a long bl
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ahead, it’s your business,’ but
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candle goes out.Only one second had
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Book II135
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picture window he could see the dar
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She was saying something very sweet
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When he got to what had been his ho
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“By the way, guess who called me,
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morning, bacon and eggs in the afte
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public goes to see him. It’s not
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contention on your own merits. And
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He and Johnny would have to see a l
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Ginny brought coffee and cake into
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piece of everything he made, every
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house.”Again there was a long pau
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walked out of the studio. They went
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words she was saying had never been
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was a fag. He sipped his drink thou
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Academy Award good-bye with Woltz w
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uined his voice with booze and toba
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Book III169
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grocery gave him a small tribute, t
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Together they rolled the rug into a
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something so chilling in his smile
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clerk with perhaps his own grocery
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the gun Clemenza had given him to u
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in the tenement and he could see da
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to the flat. The woman was Italian
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me again in another six months. But
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monopoly efficient. And so he simpl
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honest work in vain. Proud men deme
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eliminate the upstart. The Corleone
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to prove extremely important. And n
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public indignation might even lead
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young men in the organization. One
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gestured at the metal parts strewn
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BOOK IV201
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him. So she said simply, “These m
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She called out, “Dad, can you joi
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that it was him. She knew he would
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dumb small-time hood. He hoped the
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The first time he had marked her up
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He pulled away from her to run down
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families to the beach, came the tri
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soon as you can, just in case Sonny
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personal authority and cannot be co
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dough the last few months and they
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somber parlors.He always resented t
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Hagen’s voice was gentler now, bu
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without saying a word to Bonasera,
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to be extraordinarily careful in al
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in his hand. “Clean it up,” he
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no danger, the Five Families had qu
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Hagen had taken the call in the kit
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and I’ll take care of you in the
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up to receive them. They embraced h
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BOOK V241
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communally, but assuring labor and
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Hostages given, the meeting took pl
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his sons had married into an old, w
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was impossible for him not to be in
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There were greetings, there were dr
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the omerta and talk his brains out.
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to dabble in it. That was human nat
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guard against outside meddlers. Oth
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let the Bocchicchio hostages go?”
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It was a dismissal. The men rose. H
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Chapter 21But it was to be nearly a
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McCluskey.There were many details t
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and he would be lifting her in the
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Hagen explained that this money had
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They went to the supper show and Ju
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the bed, legs spread apart. He had
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1880, I think it was. She likes to
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Lucy was introducing them and one o
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“Oh,” Jules said. He didn’t l
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it’s not all sweet music and if y
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BOOK VI283
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Tommasino was an old-fashioned Mafi
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understand. He had passed his medic
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about this time Don Tommasino becam
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Italians, disdaining handkerchiefs
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this was an unerasable printing of
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farmboy. “Who are you and what do
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Michael said, “She may not be abl
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dressed peasant, and it was obvious
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home. The wedding procession pelted
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unbearably aphrodisiacal. Her virgi
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To make a long story short, Brasi l
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Chapter 24The Sicilian sun, early-m
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just putting the lunch basket in th
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BOOK VII311
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There was silence at the other end
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meant just to say “Hello, how are
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wasn’t that glad when I saw my fa
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never be in the Family business. By
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Governments really don’t do much
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honey, playa few hands; bring me lu
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Johnny felt a sense of relief. It c
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“I warned you,” Jules said.“Y
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victim because I was, after all, a
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maybe more, than he had ever had as
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few times he was angry with her. Th
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night. He and Nino took the girls t
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after the operation. Jules Segal bo
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you to do things you’d hate to do
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There’s something wrong with the
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were dazed, the mouth loose, all th
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she saw Mama Corleone, the Don’s
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Sonny being killed?” she said.Mic
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Had done it because she had asked h
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All this was known to the men sitti
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would be wise to teach them a littl
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The Don finally spoke. “Tom, it
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only family and close friends to at
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Chapter 29Michael Corleone had take
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Lampone and Albert Neri were pallbe
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much less the title of Don.“Let
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that kind of advice,” he said.Dur
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The boy grinned confidently.Neri hi
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made Tommy go down the street and g
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old-style Italian who owned a fish
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the wine robustly red. Neri was str
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policeman’s cap too, the visor ha
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mall. Hagen brought him a drink, st
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on, trousers, shirt, tie and jacket
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the mall. They walked toward Michae
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going to be killed, murmured, “Ba
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more convincing. He looked directly
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Chapter 32The bloody victory of the
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long time ago, but Mama Corleone ne
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once in your life. I know Michael c
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