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middle-aged Peter Clemenza whirling young girls around the wooden dance
floor in a rustic and lusty Tarantella. Clemenza, immensely tall, immensely
huge, danced with such skill and abandon, his hard belly lecherously
bumping the breasts of younger, tinier women, that all the guests were
applauding him. Older women grabbed his arm to become his next partner. The
younger men respectfully cleared off the floor and clapped their hands in
time to the mandolin's wild strumming. When Clemenza finally collapsed in a
chair, Paulie Gatto brought him a glass of icy black wine and wiped the
perspiring Jovelike brow with his silk handkerchief. Clemenza was blowing
like a whale as he gulped down the wine. But instead of thanking Paulie he
said curtly, "Never mind being a dance judge, do your job. Take a walk
around the neighborhood and see everything is OK." Paulie slid away into
the crowd.
2 The band took a refreshment break. A young man named Nino Valenti
picked up a discarded mandolin, put his left foot up on a chair and began
to sing a coarse Sicilian love song. Nino Valenti's face was handsome
though bloated by continual drinking and he was already a little drunk. He
rolled his eyes as his tongue caressed the obscene lyrics. The women
shrieked with glee and the men shouted the last word of each stanza with
the singer.
3 Don Corleone, notoriously straitlaced in such matters, though his
stout wife was screaming joyfully with the others, disappeared tactfully
into the house. Seeing this, Sonny Corleone made his way to the bride's
table and sat down beside young Lucy Mancini, the maid of honor. They were
safe. His wife was in the kitchen putting the last touches on the serving
of the wedding cake. Sonny whispered a few words in the young girl's ear
and she rose. Sonny waited a few minutes and then casually followed her,
stopping to talk with a guest here and there as he worked his way through
the crowd.
4 All eyes followed them. The maid of honor, thoroughly Americanized
by three years of college, was a ripe girl who already had a "reputation."
All through the marriage rehearsals she had flirted with Sonny Corleone in
a teasing, joking way she thought was permitted because he was the best man
and her wedding partner. Now holding her pink gown up off the ground, Lucy
Mancini went into the house, smiling with false innocence, ran lightly up
the stairs to the bathroom. She stayed there for a few moments. When she
came out Sonny Corleone was on the landing above, beckoning her upward.

1 From behind the closed window of Don Corleone's "office," a slightly
raised corner room (cлегка приподнятой угловой комнаты), Thomas Hagen
watched the wedding party in the festooned garden. The walls behind him
were stacked with law books (были уставлены юридическими книгами; to
stack - складывать в стог; stack - куча, груда; law - закон). Hagen was the
Don's lawyer (адвокат) and acting consigliori (исполняющим обязанности
консильори /советника - итал./), or counselor, and as such held the most
vital subordinate position (и в качестве такового занимал наиболее важную:
"жизненную" подчиненную должность) in the family business. He and the Don
had solved many a knotty problem (разрешили немало запутанных проблем;
knot - узел) in this room, and so when he saw the Godfather leave the
festivities and enter the house, he knew, wedding or no (свадьба свадьбой,