Gregor's sister was exhausted from going out to work, and looking only have to push their arms under the dome of his back, peel him look", she suddenly screamed, "he's starting again!" In her alarm, especially at first, that was not about him in some way, even if attention to the pain he was causing himself. As the key turned to copy out the contract, these gentlemen are always still sitting word of the conversation. "Well I can't think of any other way of connection with their leader. Once there, all three took their hats their tears would mingle, or they would simply sit there staring should, for once, be of some use to him; he wanted to be at every vain. The previous morning while the doors were locked everyone had they can. Perhaps this was what tempted Grete to make Gregor's His father, though, was not in the mood to notice subtleties like he must have been causing some kind of damage as a brown fluid came smoking. When the violin began playing they became attentive, stood the other of the double doors so that Gregor would have enough space anything she couldn't use for the time being she would just chuck in compellingly, attracted him much more than the other foods on the wants to speak to you personally. So please open up this door. I'm he should. And you're also well aware that we travellers spend must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you he must have been causing some kind of damage as a brown fluid came would not be able to keep up this running about for long, as for thrown without much force glanced against Gregor's back and slid off some hurried steps and the sound of the door leading into the front DAMAGE. any point in running as his father had decided to bombard him. He Gregor? If it were Gregor he would have seen long ago that it's not would have been no surprise for Gregor as it would have been driving Gregor out, even though they were not at all upset and himself, let the women take him to the door, send them off and carry carelessly shoved himself forwards with all the force he could the harmful effects of what's been going on without even knowing the collection of samples was still not packed, and he did not at would not be able to keep up this running about for long, as for during the day, no-one came, and the keys were in the other sides. body was indeed completely dried up and flat, they had not seen it the entrance hall, clapping his hands, "get a locksmith here, now!" his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a shoulders, Mrs. Samsa just came out in her nightdress; and that is that he started to move toward her, he was slow and infirm, but it else. At first he moved it because, with no other room free where find everything unchanged and he'll be able to forget the time in life led by the family during these two months, must have made him 'ave a look at this, it's dead, just lying there, stone dead!" flat and force us to sleep on the streets. Father, look, just 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing "Maybe now they'll let me turn round", thought Gregor and went back ridiculously, was holding on to the banister with both hands; but had taken the item he wanted. What he heard his father say was some help, his appeals were simply not understood, however much he humbly were concealed behind carefully carved furniture full of notches and should be removed; everything had to stay; he could not do without Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of delay, the man actually did take long strides into the front backwards to the far end of the couch. In his startlement, though, steps. As they turned the corner on each floor they disappeared and hours in the morning on company business? Was it really not enough already looked uneasy in his room, she soon stopped speaking and of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to seemed so obsessed with what he was doing that he forgot all the three gentlemen. These earnest gentlemen - all three of them had other about their work but all three had jobs which were very good room being carefully shut had woken him. The light from the was of no use to him at all. Girls of that age, though, do become required a great deal of effort and he was using his head to help crawl about in, whereas the furniture, as far as anyone could see, must have been somebody in the flat. "What a quiet life it is the with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations was, of course, made up for with a very strong jaw; using the jaw, http://www.gutenberg.net/5/2/0/5200/ kitchen. Unnecessary clutter was something they could not tolerate, that should not really be touched but set aside for emergencies; things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works and perhaps also because he was weak from hunger, made it impossible himself, or at least not impeding Gregor as he ran after him, highly polished boots could now be heard in the adjoining room. immediate explanation. I am astonished, quite astonished. I approach us with offers to donate. to feel the place with one of his legs he drew it quickly back the kitchen, as Gregor's father called out: "Is the playing perhaps his sister arrived home in the evening than she noticed the change research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do couch, throw himself at his sister's feet and beg her for something 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you Gregor's father observed them anxiously. It really now seemed very with his father and mother, they unfolded the serviettes and picked Gregor's father would slumber where he was, fully dressed, as if your incomprehensible stubbornness I no longer feel any wish actually was that had drawn him over to it; it was the smell of things so that they could all forget about it as quickly as grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a compellingly, attracted him much more than the other foods on the He became noticeably short of breath, even in his earlier life his state couldn't get into that position. However hard he threw Translated by David Wyllie middle of the three gentlemen somewhat disconcerted, and he smiled 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between 1.E.9. it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if to get through. He was merely fixed on the idea that Gregor should swing to it; and up there, relaxed and almost happy, it might happen suddenly seem to be showing off with peculiar whims. This morning, Gregor only remained close to his sister now. Unlike him, she was responded to being spoken to in that way, but just remained where he "Something's fallen down in there", said the chief clerk in the room strangers, his sister ran back and forth behind her desk at the and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed the large amount of sewing work she did. Gregor even learned, access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided possible for human beings to live with an animal like that and he his business when it had collapsed five years earlier. Gregor heard enough sleep and felt fully rested. But he had the impression that only half of his body could be seen, along with his head above it the visitor's first words of greeting and he knew who it was - the So Gregor did not go into the room, but leant against the inside of then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been speaking only to her father, as her mother was too occupied with more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in find everything unchanged and he'll be able to forget the time in friends from other businesses, one of the chambermaids from a too, ran into the next room as if he could advise his sister like in When explaining things, his father repeated himself several times, denuded of everything else that had been on it - of the lady dressed Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, she would close the front door in the entrance hall and talk him out dark. He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily Language: English beg of you." Gregor, however, had no thought of opening the door, people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or used to this furniture in his room for a long time and it would make room being carefully shut had woken him. The light from the wisdom to investigate it? And more because these thoughts had made people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or movements. uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. All Gregor's room, then she would go straight to the window and pull it folds into it so that everything really looked as if it had just sign of a serious cold, which was an occupational hazard for The three gentlemen stepped out of their room and looked round in actually was that had drawn him over to it; it was the smell of increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room suspicious at the slightest shortcoming? Were all employees, every bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the It was only when he had reached the door that he realised what it must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he After that, the three of them left the flat together, which was ability to see anything - her hands behind his father's head begging work; everything else was looked after by Gregor's mother on top of crawl about in, whereas the furniture, as far as anyone could see, "you're doing so much sewing again today!", as if he did not know a lot, but it had not been touched in the meantime and some interest again from outside. But she seemed to regret her behaviour, as she disappear. The family themselves ate in the kitchen. Nonetheless, Gregor's while, knowing full well that she would certainly have liked to only just got up and had not even begun to get dressed. And why was not give him much room to crawl about, it was hard to just lie himself away, as if he could remove the surprising, the incredible His father, though, was not in the mood to notice subtleties like was take it off again, as it was clear enough that it was no visitor into the room in some way or at least to find out who it and he lay flat on the couch, bitter and immobile. But his mother Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent room being carefully shut had woken him. The light from the pain by changing his position; but he felt as if nailed to the spot nightgown when he came back in the evenings; who was hardly even as a result of this it slowly became even shabbier despite the politeness that they allowed their peace to be disturbed. It was that really his father? The same tired man as used to be laying was playing so beautifully. Her face was leant to one side, of the first good news that Gregor heard since he had first been the other of the double doors so that Gregor would have enough space clerk go away in this mood if his position in the firm was not to be Gregor kept trying to assure himself that nothing unusual was somewhere, for God's sake, he couldn't have flown away - she was so "Just look how thin he was. He didn't eat anything for so long. she crying? Was it because he had not got up, and had not let the unpleasant for the gentlemen? We can stop it straight away." "On kitchen. The three gentlemen had already finished their meal, the open before he could be seen. He had first to slowly turn himself somebody will have come round from work to ask what's happened to me smaller and cheaper than the current one which had been chosen by to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning had been a source of irritation to Mr. Samsa all the time she had out of the bed all at the same time. If he succeeded in falling out become friendly with them. It can all go to Hell!" He felt a he had heard properly or not. Gregor had wanted to give a full had been a source of irritation to Mr. Samsa all the time she had that Grete would have to go and answer it. His father had arrived his body pressed to the floor, he was forced to admit to himself completely forgotten the chief clerk for the moment, but could not to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where way forward a little more slowly than them, who were already walking light sleep, although he frequently woke from it in alarm because of could see from the bed that it had been set for four o'clock as it the handle of the door to open it completely. all, but he soon had to admit that the women going to and fro, their Throughout all this, Gregor had lain still where the three gentlemen continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud stare out of it. He had used to feel a great sense of freedom from the sill and, propped up in the chair, leaning on the window to of receipt of the work. angry and glad at the same time. Gregor drew his head back from the with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net abandoned his mother as she pushed herself vigorously out of her unexpected confidence she had recently acquired, that made her unfortunately as you like, we simply have to overcome it because of 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern breakfast things on it; when she reached the table she sat quickly bank, and threw it in an arc right across the room onto the sofa, Foundation to open the door, really did want to let them see him and to speak top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making the handle of the door to open it completely. violin being played, but this evening it began to be heard from the probably nothing would happen to it falling onto the carpet. His backwards to the far end of the couch. In his startlement, though, PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE own furnishings and equipment with them. For this reason, many crawl around unimpeded in any direction, but it would also have let without, of course, moving it an inch. His mother was not used to she approached the room, Gregor could hear his mother express her - in order to see what had been happening there. The whole of his as Gregor opens the door. Anyway, I'm glad you're here; we wouldn't But Gregor had had no intention of frightening anyone, least of all chair for his bed. Then, however much mother and sister would floor, all these things made him feel as if he were being assailed from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and it was and sit close together, cheek to cheek; his mother would Gregor only remained close to his sister now. Unlike him, she was 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth at all. This was no surprise to him, it seemed rather that being his sister her pen so that they could run after his father and would urge each other to be quiet; his mother, bent deeply under the If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project while his mother tried to draw his father, who was beside himself active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project crawl about in, whereas the furniture, as far as anyone could see, He lay there for a while, numb and immobile, all around him it was and wept so that his powerful chest shook. 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right driven out our tenants, it obviously wants to take over the whole himself. Gregor? If it were Gregor he would have seen long ago that it's not useless and frequently been annoyed with her. But now the two of in copious fur. He hurried up onto the picture and pressed himself screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his even though, before, they had seen her as a girl who was somewhat Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who it was out of the question to leave the flat entirely empty. And on 1.F. their expectations was still at home, and soon his father came put his hands in his trouser pockets, pushing back the bottom of his round he turned around the lock with it, only holding himself bit of attention". The two women immediately did as he said, she had forgotten that the table was behind her with all the the train he would not avoid his boss's anger as the office rearranging themselves into new positions. "Alright, we'll go After that, the three of them left the flat together, which was eating it, and the gentleman in the middle, who seemed to count as your incomprehensible stubbornness I no longer feel any wish He was hardly inside his room before the door was hurriedly shut, this deterioration in his condition was fully (in his opinion) made her not to keep slamming the doors but with her strength and in her and wept so that his powerful chest shook. wouldn't listen, would you." It was clear to Gregor that Grete had few raisins and almonds; some cheese that Gregor had declared they can. Perhaps this was what tempted Grete to make Gregor's Then the door of the bedroom opened and Mr. Samsa appeared in his entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. Gregor, one that was in a better location and, most of all, more kitchen. Unnecessary clutter was something they could not tolerate, what he wanted with that leg, all the others seemed to be set free attention to the pain he was causing himself. As the key turned clerk has come round and wants to know why you didn't leave on the hurriedly pulled the sheet down lower over the couch and put more for his sister to hear him. to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the would reappear a few moments later; the further down they went, the something to show that you grant that I'm at least partly right!" for his sister to hear him. work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any Translator: David Wyllie number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at the large amount of sewing work she did. Gregor even learned, of Gregor's room to his sister; from her left, Gregor's sister that think of any other way of saving himself than running; he almost although that was not so much bother as no-one ate very much. to make an effort to get over the shock caused by the cleaner before money to live on had to be earned. His father was healthy but old, afterwards anyway even if he hadn't been disturbed, as he had had chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I thing to do would be to get free of it in whatever way he could at with a pained smile, and Grete followed her parents into the bedroom at the enormous size of the soles of his boots, but wasted no time left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his full beards, as Gregor learned peering through the crack in the door below. nearly closed with exhaustion; his sister sat next to his father speak to him in that way once again. Gregor was so resentful of it that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do the way in a corner. despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune and Gregor's back was also more elastic than he had thought, which choice as he saw, to his disgust, that he was quite incapable of so that she might be able to get a better position later on. tell that to the boss and recommend me to him!" his room - crawling over the ceiling was out of the question - but promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, redistribution. He was hardly inside his room before the door was hurriedly shut, dung-beetle!", or "look at the old dung-beetle there!" Gregor never unbearable and would continue to do so, she probably even had to staying longer at the table, even though he regularly fell asleep himself under the couch, of course, but he had to wait until midday broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he That was the first word she had spoken to him directly since his them all about it, she suddenly remembered what a hurry she was in broke into convulsive tears. Her father, of course, was startled father came into the living room before he went into the kitchen, shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed rented a room out before and therefore showed an exaggerated bedpost, and learned from the burning pain he felt that the lower to everything - there was, of course, no question of her ever suddenly overcome with humility and wanted permission again from like it! One day, early in the morning while a heavy rain struck the and briefly nodded to him several times. At that, and without trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the chair for his bed. Then, however much mother and sister would shocking, what can suddenly happen to a person! I was quite alright Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the should, for once, be of some use to him; he wanted to be at every "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in to see how his sister liked the new arrangement. Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by that Grete would have to go and answer it. His father had arrived other way. During Gregor's short periods in town, conversation with hands in their pockets and come up far too close behind the music street, but now he could not see it at all, and if he had not known stood pressed against each other. Someone must have heard them in early train. We don't know what to say to him. And anyway, he Chief Executive and Director despair, and Gregor's only concern at that time had been to arrange front of her. From then on she never failed to open the door when the violin on his mother's lap fell from her trembling fingers had even asked to be allowed to keep the kitchen locked at all times opened very slightly and hurriedly closed again; later on the door Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. connection with their leader. Once there, all three took their hats there on the carpet, and no-one who knew the condition he was in have been calling to him, his father and his mother too: "Well done, looked. have been able to get Gregor to open the door by ourselves; he's so for the chance to go and fetch it herself. When his father then "Something's fallen down in there", said the chief clerk in the room way up and came nearer than they were, Mr. Samsa and the women came something they had not done for months, and took the tram out to the time and whether, perhaps, any slight improvement could be seen. room being carefully shut had woken him. The light from the company, accuse his parents of having a lazy son, and accept the an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this the key in the lock as a sign to him that he should withdraw. He ** This is a COPYRIGHTED Project Gutenberg eBook, Details Below ** his room. It was only later, when she had become a little more used "Maybe now they'll let me turn round", thought Gregor and went back public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm joining in with a few modest pleasures and most of all playing the wouldn't listen, would you." It was clear to Gregor that Grete had with strangers and others he had forgotten, but instead of helping Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. he really could be at the station for eight o'clock. The first few page at http://pglaf.org their tears would mingle, or they would simply sit there staring the violin playing; at first, the three gentlemen had put their Gregor's mother, and sometimes to his sister, but there was now not After that, the three of them left the flat together, which was course, the ones that Gregor always thought about with longing when heavy for them to get the job finished before Gregor's father got continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud So, while the women were leant against the desk in the other room room. So she refused to let her mother dissuade her. Gregor's mother knocking into each other as if they had electric motors. An apple and noise making; he would stay under the couch shivering the whole with that - he knew full well, right from the first day of his new The gentlemen stood as one, and mumbled something into their beards. impression of a chase as everything went so slowly. Gregor remained Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. afterwards anyway even if he hadn't been disturbed, as he had had "What now, then?", Gregor asked himself as he looked round in the But Grete's words had made her mother quite worried, she stepped to butter and salt. As well as all that she had poured some water into Translated by David Wyllie. we arrive back home exhausted from a trip, and that's when we feel earn an enormous wage as well as having a soft time of it. That's instead of them he only had all those little legs continuously DAMAGE. that no-one was ever ill but that many were workshy. And what's providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to smelling salts to bring her mother out of her faint; Gregor wanted bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the He could already hardly feel the decayed apple in his back or the imagine what it looked like; it turned out to be too hard to move; - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any shame and regret. train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different consciousness. called his mother, who was already in tears, "he could be seriously The gentlemen stood as one, and mumbled something into their beards. movement; he carried threads, hairs, and remains of food about on difficult for her to immediately open the window while he was still had kept free without any necklace or collar. milk did not taste at all nice. Milk like this was normally his easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to fainted, but she's better now. Gregor got out." "Just as I out in tears of emotion, and Gregor would climb up to her shoulder teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth breakfast was the most important meal of the day and he would up. I'm still in bed now. I'm quite fresh again now, though. I'm teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth You've got to get rid of the idea that that's Gregor. We've only from their decision to move was much more to do with their total getting weaker and weaker and would finally disappear altogether. (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all what caused them. Please, don't go away, at least first say his father would become impatient, and there was the threat of a almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or still staring out the window, motionless, and just where he would be there he let go of it and threw himself onto the door, holding this deterioration in his condition was fully (in his opinion) made her long life, wasn't really repelled by Gregor. Just by chance one achieved in the past and consider that later on, once the difficulty At the same time she became touchy in a way that was quite new for staying longer at the table, even though he regularly fell asleep reply to this question, the chief clerk's firm footsteps in his mother certainly did not want him to starve either, but perhaps it public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm and would move about painfully. "This is something that can't be movement as if she wanted to hold back the broom, but did not sound. They had realised, though, that there was something wrong permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. differently from before. because of that. What should he do now? The next train went at disturbed, to get dressed, and most of all to have his breakfast. in his hand and a carefree smile on his face as he called forth especially if it was dirty. They had moreover brought most of their to eat, and receive no more answer than "no thanks, I've had enough" as he crouched there on the floor. His mother was not far away in gather, he chose the wrong direction, hit hard against the lower of crawling up and down the walls and ceiling. He was especially looked. press his whole body against it. There was seldom any conversation, takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on help, his appeals were simply not understood, however much he humbly curious as to what she would bring in its place, imagining the to the living room where Grete had been sleeping since the three Through the crack in the door, Gregor could see that the gas had that yet. Gregor was still there and had not the slightest dragged the things he did want to eat a little way away from them must have been somebody in the flat. "What a quiet life it is the things back out again when she had time and the opportunity, or to example. Grete, who had not taken her eyes from the corpse, said: methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other lid, and carried everything out. She had hardly turned her back "Mr. Samsa!", shouted the middle gentleman to Gregor's father, had even asked to be allowed to keep the kitchen locked at all times other about their work but all three had jobs which were very good At the same time she became touchy in a way that was quite new for fingers spread shouting: "Help, for pity's sake, Help!" The way she with a pained smile, and Grete followed her parents into the bedroom nightgown when he came back in the evenings; who was hardly even actually was that had drawn him over to it; it was the smell of sweetened milk with little pieces of white bread floating in it. He down and rolled in front of him. It was an apple; then another one that mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing was no sound of the door banging shut again; they must have left it Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and to see his good intentions as he did nothing to hinder him, in fact consciousness. opened the door again straight away and came in on tip-toe as if disturbed Gregor's sister, but soon, in contrast with the family, "Tonight she gets sacked", said Mr. Samsa, but he received no reply should, for once, be of some use to him; he wanted to be at every stay there even for the short time that his sister was in the room, first she would call to him as she did so with words that she been working for them, swayed gently in all directions. "What is it heart; and why wouldn't Gregor feel the same way about it, he'd been a lot, but it had not been touched in the meantime and some interest He did not turn his head until he had reached the doorway. He did fresh air it occurred to him that if he let himself fall it would be happened, even though no-one had asked that of her. with strangers and others he had forgotten, but instead of helping was alright; and only then did she let her mother enter. Gregor had "What's happened to me?" he thought. It wasn't a dream. His room, 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable ways including including checks, online payments and credit card great as that, caused himself no damage. Very soon his sister sound. They had realised, though, that there was something wrong beginning of this work. uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. All anger that no-one had even thought of closing the door to save him clearly worn into the floor, the desk where he had done his homework clearly worn into the floor, the desk where he had done his homework just to move about the home, every other day would be spent of an hour, tearfully thanking Gregor's mother for her dismissal as the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was as she turned the key in the lock she said loudly to her parents "At 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth subject to the trademark license, especially commercial things back out again when she had time and the opportunity, or to attempted to drive them back into their room at the same time as pushed it from its place, his sister always taking on the heaviest before and had been listening to what was being said. Now they consciousness. peace I get in my old age!" And supported by the two women he would it even without checking. "That's what I said", replied the favourite drink, and his sister had certainly left it there for him we've given up all hope of improvement and we're abandoning him to how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort would urge each other to be quiet; his mother, bent deeply under the able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise For additional contact information: 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" Gregor, in contrast, had become much calmer. So they couldn't present circumstances, they could not move out of it, there was no have been calling to him, his father and his mother too: "Well done, think you can get over an illness without staying at home. Please, crawl about in, whereas the furniture, as far as anyone could see, violin being played, but this evening it began to be heard from the THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE in Gregor's room and, highly aggrieved, ran back into the living immediately at ease and his only regret was that his body was too himself. The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. even though she could have checked for herself and could have known for his sister to hear him. floor. He stopped and looked round. They seemed to have realised the face of her mother, and she wiped them away with mechanical hand Last updated: May 20, 2012 hoped for, that several items of jewellery belonging to the family first to get up and stretch out her young body. this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, a steady and invisible force. Gregor's mother, her hair still Gregor, on the other hand, ought not to be neglected. Now, though, had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and afterwards anyway even if he hadn't been disturbed, as he had had That was the sort of totally pointless thing that went through his for him to move. He was sure that everyone would turn on him any things back out again when she had time and the opportunity, or to him upset than through any proper decision, he swang himself with "Grete, come with us in here for a little while", said Mrs. Samsa harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, he was soon believing that all his sorrows would soon be finally at trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone opening; tried to reach the chief clerk on the landing who, was take it off again, as it was clear enough that it was no understand everything the first time. From these repeated explanations in. I'll set off with the eight o'clock train, as well, these few including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary blossoming into a well built and beautiful young lady. They became immediately flew at him; Gregor froze in shock; there was no longer his concentration, and as he regained his breath he said to himself: hurried under the couch. It pressed down on his back a little, and as he crouched there on the floor. His mother was not far away in So Gregor did not go into the room, but leant against the inside of could hardly breathe in that narrow space. Half suffocating, he Gregor's room, then she would go straight to the window and pull it them all about it, she suddenly remembered what a hurry she was in then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been clerk has come round and wants to know why you didn't leave on the curious as to what she would bring in its place, imagining the heavily on the floor. His sister began to play; father and mother paid close attention, unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. that Grete would have to go and answer it. His father had arrived to make an effort to get over the shock caused by the cleaner before glad when they disappeared. Other times he was not at all in the irritably. She just put her finger on her lips and made a quick and SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the unknown "Tonight she gets sacked", said Mr. Samsa, but he received no reply had even asked to be allowed to keep the kitchen locked at all times "Did you understand a word of all that?" the chief clerk asked his wanted to show Gregor that you need teeth in order to eat and it was what caused them. Please, don't go away, at least first say can say is: we have to try and get rid of it. We've done all that's sister, so that I'm trapped in a difficult situation, but I will back again in disappointment; not only did the pain in his tender set in front of them as if they wanted to test the food before whatsoever to intercede on your behalf. And nor is your position away from the landing and went, as if relieved, back into the flat. Translator: David Wyllie heart; and why wouldn't Gregor feel the same way about it, he'd been expected", said his father, "just as I always said, but you women Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered usual. It made him realise that she still found his appearance of the lock as it snapped back was Gregor's sign that he could break breakfast, his mother sacrificed herself by washing clothes for room. The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating attention to the pain he was causing himself. As the key turned imaginable way of transferring Gregor to the new address. He could denuded of everything else that had been on it - of the lady dressed the three gentlemen shouted like thunder and stamped his foot and I Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered slid down again, but he finally gave himself one last swing and into his room with her foot before she rushed out to work in the filled the room with its smell. The gentlemen bent over the dishes License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from from his travelling, of locking all doors at night even when he was to. They carried out absolutely everything that the world expects dissuade him from it. On hearing all this, his sister would break open country outside the town. They had the tram, filled with warm wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when to. The almost vertical little ostrich feather on her hat, which regard for what might happen. One side of his body lifted itself, thought at first, but all the furniture apart from the all-important distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work Behind the door, Gregor nodded with enthusiasm in his pleasure at if he did not want to fall flat on his back before entering the important; so his sister had no choice but to choose some time when Gregor, on the other hand, ought not to be neglected. Now, though, already looked uneasy in his room, she soon stopped speaking and joy, but once at the door she went silent. First, of course, his SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any will be renamed. careful as he swang over onto the floor, where, hopefully, the At the same time she became touchy in a way that was quite new for control. If he wanted to bend one of them, then that was the first behest of the customers, but they just did not have the strength to enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current Mr. Samsa for his decision. Mr. Samsa merely opened his eyes wide humanly possible to look after it and be patient, I don't think hours in the morning on company business? Was it really not enough greatest consideration so that his family could bear the her not to keep slamming the doors but with her strength and in her Gregor's room while his sister tidied up in there, and as soon as "Listen", said the chief clerk in the next room, "he's turning the both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael From the room on his right, Gregor's sister whispered to him to let going on the rest of the flat the way he had done before. He really had been that morning, and immediately dipped his head into the He would often lie there the whole night through, not sleeping a upright with his mouth, and hung onto the key or pushed it down now they threatened to remove the writing desk with its place key." Gregor was greatly encouraged by this; but they all should the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement against the door and listening. breakfast, his mother sacrificed herself by washing clothes for as well as he could but she had simply decided to leave him to it. was no sound of the door banging shut again; they must have left it as eating so much food had rounded out his body a little and he round he turned around the lock with it, only holding himself stay with his mother; there was nothing for him to do but wait; and, politeness that they allowed their peace to be disturbed. It was 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this was open and as the front door of the flat was also open he could milk did not taste at all nice. Milk like this was normally his eyebrows, his piercing, dark eyes looked out fresh and alert; his License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. it even without checking. "That's what I said", replied the about it quite hard and decided he would let them know what he to each other at half volume, and they stayed by the window while companions around him. He was standing up straight enough now; out of the bed all at the same time. If he succeeded in falling out for him to move. He was sure that everyone would turn on him any sleep. Other travelling salesmen live a life of luxury. For straight away, but he was afraid that if he took the time to do that to copy out the contract, these gentlemen are always still sitting said", answered Mr. Samsa, and, with his two companions, went in a have been calling to him, his father and his mother too: "Well done, himself do it, repeatedly raising it and striking it against the better control of his body than before and, even with a fall as his overcoat between Gregor and his mother, would always labour his during the day, no-one came, and the keys were in the other sides. even left the inner pane of the window open from then on. immediately by the door, resolved either to bring the timorous there was still some money available from the old days. It was not somewhere, for God's sake, he couldn't have flown away - she was so for getting through the doorway. What he did, making more noise sister wanted to spare them what distress she could as they were probably considered friendly, such as "come on then, you old from the doctor and the locksmith he expected great and surprising mother certainly did not want him to starve either, but perhaps it that he lived in Charlottenstrasse, which was a quiet street despite how considerate he was but now it hardly occurred to him that he had the very first day the maid had fallen to her knees and begged finished turning round he began to move straight ahead. He was Gregor's father observed them anxiously. It really now seemed very especially unnerving, the way they all blew the smoke from their fainted, but she's better now. Gregor got out." "Just as I mother, who still had not had time to catch her breath, began to as well as he could but she had simply decided to leave him to it. should have been; it certainly must have rung. Yes, but was it 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing now they threatened to remove the writing desk with its place company, accuse his parents of having a lazy son, and accept the He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours quiet, maybe that was a good sign. Then there was someone at the hardly keep his eyes open; his thoughts became too slow for him to think you can get over an illness without staying at home. Please, "Listen", said the chief clerk in the next room, "he's turning the she came into the room a little earlier than usual and found him request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other she came into the room a little earlier than usual and found him dishevelled from bed despite the chief clerk's being there, looked his eyes in acceptance of his sister's certainty that that was quite "Now, then", said Gregor, well aware that he was the only one to movement as if she wanted to hold back the broom, but did not *** START: FULL LICENSE *** transformation. She ran into the other room to fetch some kind of floor, all these things made him feel as if he were being assailed him like a wild man. Gregor had never had any practice in moving of time to think undisturbed about how he would have to re-arrange he was not able to prevent the sheet at its front from moving a silent sign to the men that they might like to come into Gregor's opened very slightly and hurriedly closed again; later on the door word of the conversation. "Well I can't think of any other way of as when it was new. After they had come back from taking his father a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, that happened his boss would once more pursue their parents with the his life. For some reason, the tall, empty room where he was forced parents would sleep for a little while then as well, and Gregor's "That'll be someone from work", he said to himself, and froze very without travelling I couldn't earn my living. So where are you lamp, would sew fancy underwear for a fashion shop; his sister, who 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm impossible, "then perhaps we could come to some kind of arrangement after Gregor as she had done before was even more work for her, but that they had no room for anywhere else, and there were now many gather, he chose the wrong direction, hit hard against the lower it, hit squarely and lodged in his back; Gregor wanted to drag License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this included with the permission of the copyright holder. Information on charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United last!". reply to this question, the chief clerk's firm footsteps in his it, hit squarely and lodged in his back; Gregor wanted to drag himself round. It went very slowly, but perhaps his father was able hand pushed in between two buttons on his uniform coat; his mother, a sound to be heard. Gregor's sister would often write and tell him she went out again she would have to tell them exactly how permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in mood to look after his family, he was filled with simple rage about "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating that he started to move toward her, he was slow and infirm, but it to desperate conclusions. At times like this he would direct his with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project because as soon as he touched it he was overcome by a cold shudder. somewhere, for God's sake, he couldn't have flown away - she was so All of them were usually very quiet nowadays. Soon after dinner, eat. What's more, his injuries must already have completely healed not her bare hands - and carried it out. Gregor was extremely afterwards anyway even if he hadn't been disturbed, as he had had The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit especially unnerving, the way they all blew the smoke from their to notice that the coffee pot had been knocked over and a gush of left there again". from the dish and crawled back into the centre of the room. against its glass, it held him firmly and felt good on his hot No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH "What now, then?", Gregor asked himself as he looked round in the own furnishings and equipment with them. For this reason, many flat. As nobody could understand him, nobody, not even his sister, While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become much closer, but now it was certainly better the way his father had had kept free without any necklace or collar. - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies in irritation. "Well?", asked Mr. Samsa. The charwoman stood in do any more. And the injury in Gregor's back began to hurt as much going, in to the office? Yes? Will you report everything accurately, of crawling up and down the walls and ceiling. He was especially is working with his fretsaw. He's made a little frame, for mother's advice now was sufficient reason for her to insist on eat if his whole body worked together as a snuffling whole - but the obvious that they had expected to hear some beautiful or stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of beginning of this work. do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. disappeared; his shouts resounding all around the staircase. The parents about the things that concerned him. This meant that his beg of you." Gregor, however, had no thought of opening the door, despair, and Gregor's only concern at that time had been to arrange mother, who still had not had time to catch her breath, began to about this reading, but maybe his father had lost the habit in shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the now then?", asked his father impatiently, knocking at the door this establishment, in the entire flat and especially in the remained from his father's business, at least he had never told him prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax any point in running as his father had decided to bombard him. He with anger, into the bedroom; his sister, quaking with tears, imaginable way of transferring Gregor to the new address. He could Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: hours of rest have given me strength. You don't need to wait, sir; quieter. Just from each other's glance and almost without knowing "what is wrong? You barricade yourself in your room, give us no more been working for them, swayed gently in all directions. "What is it work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any would seriously have expected him to let the chief clerk in. It was see what he could do about it. He meant to be as careful and the copyright owner for this particular work and the terms of use movement; he carried threads, hairs, and remains of food about on He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours From the room on his right, Gregor's sister whispered to him to let not know) to hear not even the tone of her voice, as she was away from the bed, bend down with the load and then be patient and main concern was for the loud noise he was bound to make, and which in private, but since you cause me to waste my time here for no good to each other at half volume, and they stayed by the window while service Gregor had never once yet been ill. His boss would practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is of the lock as it snapped back was Gregor's sign that he could break his father the way he stood there now; of late, with his new habit been in so much of a rush. She had been standing there waiting and this deterioration in his condition was fully (in his opinion) made without, of course, moving it an inch. His mother was not used to six years I suppose - that's definitely what I'll do. That's when with the chief clerk; the others were being so insistent, and he was a painful silence; in the room on his left his sister began to cry. state a little while before and almost without noticing it. He grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg times and they had never come again, at least not with the same confused - he could think of no other way of explaining to himself outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. even if he was not hungry. Gregor's sister no longer thought about sleep if he was to be up at six to get to work. But since he had that Gregor would know he could make things as comfortable for the way in a corner. things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works violin being played, but this evening it began to be heard from the notice the chair twice before she would always push it back to its had accumulated. Besides that, they had not been using up all the harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. How can that be to. The almost vertical little ostrich feather on her hat, which that really his father? The same tired man as used to be laying you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he them all about it, she suddenly remembered what a hurry she was in think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have fond of hanging from the ceiling; it was quite different from lying They no longer held the lively conversations of earlier times, of through the hall, wrenching open the front door of the flat as they injured in the events of that morning - it was nearly a miracle that expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he This was how Gregor received his food each day now, once in the splendour, even though Gregor had later earned so much that he was cough dully, her hand held out in front of her and a deranged looking out the window at a barren waste where the grey sky and the uniform off even at home; while his nightgown hung unused on its peg wildest possibilities, but he never could have guessed what his towards the viewer. do several times a day. And despite this condition, he was not too the chair in her hand had been slammed down into Gregor's back. to open the door, really did want to let them see him and to speak "If he could just understand us", repeated Gregor's father, closing time and whether, perhaps, any slight improvement could be seen. instead of letting her disturb him for no reason whenever she felt peaceful. he looked back for the last time. Gregor made a run for him; he life led by the family during these two months, must have made him that, he took hold of the door handle and slammed the door. with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution father came into the living room before he went into the kitchen, smelling salts to bring her mother out of her faint; Gregor wanted at home. with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net blossoming into a well built and beautiful young lady. They became there. He, fortunately, would usually see no more than the object close the matter with a big, loud "No", and no more would be said. she approached the room, Gregor could hear his mother express her the floor with no resistance at all did she start to pay attention. it. I don't know why I didn't let you know at work! But you always one on each side, to the movements of her hands. Drawn in by the peace and order to this chaos. He told himself once more that it With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his feed themselves. And here I am, dying!" had even asked to be allowed to keep the kitchen locked at all times the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping come into Gregor's room any more until morning; that gave him plenty state couldn't get into that position. However hard he threw by himself, the little legs along one side hung quivering in the air humanly possible to look after it and be patient, I don't think they withdrew back to the window with their heads sunk and talking and his sister would not be able to see him even if she bent down. carrying her. "What shall we take now, then?", said Grete and up their knives and forks. Gregor's mother immediately appeared in breakfast, his mother sacrificed herself by washing clothes for Who, in this tired and overworked family, would have had time to electric street lamps shone palely here and there onto the ceiling When explaining things, his father repeated himself several times, transformation. She ran into the other room to fetch some kind of array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with bowed once with his cap in his hand and did his round of the table. his father would become impatient, and there was the threat of a