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behave [b?'he?v] - вести себя). Despite all these virtues (достоинства
['v?:tju:]) he did not have that personal magnetism, that animal force, so
necessary for a leader of men, and he too was not expected to inherit the
family business (не ожидалось = не предполагали, что унаследует
[?n'her?t]).

1 Standing at the door with him were two of his three sons. The
eldest, baptized Santino but called Sonny by everyone except his father,
was looked at askance by the older Italian men; with admiration by the
younger. Sonny Corleone was tall for a first-generation American of Italian
parentage, almost six feet, and his crop of bushy, curly hair made him look
even taller. His face was that of a gross Cupid, the features even but the
bow-shaped lips thickly sensual, the dimpled cleft chin in some curious way
obscene. He was built as powerfully as a bull and it was common knowledge
that he was so generously endowed by nature that his martyred wife feared
the marriage bed as unbelievers once feared the rack. It was whispered that
when as a youth he had visited houses of ill fame, even the most hardened
and fearless putain, after an awed inspection of his massive organ,
demanded double price. Here at the wedding feast, some young matrons,
widehipped, wide-mouthed, measured Sonny Corleone with coolly confident
eyes. But on this particular day they were wasting their time. Sonny
Corleone, despite the presence of his wife and three small children, had
plans for his sister's maid of honor, Lucy Mancini. This young girl, fully
aware, sat at a garden table in her pink formal gown, a tiara of flowers in
her glossy black hair. She had flirted with Sonny in the past week of
rehearsals and squeezed his hand that morning at the altar. A maiden could
do no more.
2 She did not care that he would never be the great man his father had
proved to be. Sonny Corleone had strength, he had courage. He was generous
and his heart was admitted to be as big as his organ. Yet he did not have
his father's humility but instead a quick, hot temper that led him into
errors of judgment. Though he was a great help in his father's business,
there were many who doubted that he would become the heir to it.
3 The second son, Frederico, called Fred or Fredo, was a child every
Italian prayed to the saints for. Dutiful, loyal, always at the service of
his father, living with his parents at age thirty. He was short and burly,
not handsome but with the same Cupid head of the family, the curly helmet
of hair over the round face and sensual bow-shaped lips. Only, in Fred,
these lips were not sensual but granitelike. Inclined to dourness, he was
still a crutch to his father, never disputed him, never embarrassed him by
scandalous behavior with women. Despite all these virtues he did not have
that personal magnetism, that animal force, so necessary for a leader of
men, and he too was not expected to inherit the family business.

1 The third son, Michael Corleone, did not stand with his father and
his two brothers but sat at a table in the most secluded corner (в самом
безлюдном уголке; to seclude [s?'klu:d] - отстранять, изолировать) of the
garden. But even there he could not escape the attentions (избежать знаков
внимания) of the family friends.
2 Michael Corleone was the youngest son of the Don and the only child