The Godfather

 “The Godfather” By Mario Puzo
 
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A week after she returned to Michael she went to a priest for instruction to become a 
Catholic. 
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From the innermost recess of the church the bell tolled for repentance. As she had been 
taught to do, Kay struck her breast lightly with her clenched hand, the stroke of 
repentance. The bell tolled again and there was the shuffling of feet as the 
communicants left their seats to go to the altar rail. Kay rose to join them. She knelt at 
the altar and from the depths of the church the bell tolled again. With her closed hand 
she struck her heart once more. The priest was before her. She tilted back her head and 
opened her mouth to receive the papery thin wafer. This was the most terrible moment 
of all. Until it melted away and she could swallow and she could do what she came to 
do. 
Washed clean of sin, a favored supplicant, she bowed her head and folded her hands 
over the altar rail. She shifted her body to make her weight less punishing to her knees. 
She emptied her mind of all thought of herself, of her children, of all anger, of all 
rebellion, of all questions. Then with a profound and deeply willed desire to believe, to 
be heard, as she had done every day since the murder of Carlo Rizzi, she said the 
necessary prayers for the soul of Michael Corleone. 

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Document Outline

• Book One
  • Chapter 1
  • Behind every great fortune there is a crime – Balzac
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  • Chapter 2
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  • Chapter 3
  • Chapter 4
  • Chapter 5
  • Chapter 6
  • Chapter 7
  • Chapter 8
  • Chapter 9
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  • Chapter 10
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  • Chapter 11
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• Book Two
  • Chapter 12
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  • Chapter 13
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• Book Three
  • Chapter 14
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• Book Four
  • Chapter 15
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  • Chapter 16
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  • Chapter 17
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  • Chapter 18
  • Chapter 19
• Book Five
  • Chapter 20
  • Chapter 21
  • Chapter 22
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• Book Six
  • Chapter 23
  • Chapter 24
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• Book Seven
  • Chapter 25
  • Chapter 26
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  • Chapter 27
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  • Chapter 28
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• Book Eight
  • Chapter 29
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  • Chapter 30
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  • Chapter 31
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• Book Nine
  • Chapter 32
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