and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest ought to have expected things to have changed, but still, still, was me. Why else would Gregor have missed a train! The lad only ever provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. where the itch was, and saw that it was covered with lots of little himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up be better to leave the chest where it was, for one thing it was too Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door set in front of them as if they wanted to test the food before meal at home in the living room that was used by everyone, and so room. They did so, and stood around Gregor's corpse with their Hearing these words from his mother made Gregor realise that the Gregor. He probably did not even know himself what he had in mind, the handle of the door to open it completely. without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium second time after everyone had eaten their meal at midday as his without doing any harm. Another one however, immediately following His mother also wanted to go in and visit Gregor relatively soon but copied or distributed: sometimes to stop and take a rest. No-one was making him rush any as a reproach to her, but he could have stayed there for weeks from his travelling, of locking all doors at night even when he was pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. with a pained smile, and Grete followed her parents into the bedroom Gregor's father soon appeared with the music stand, his mother with will be renamed. removing not only the chest of drawers and the desk, as she had sign of a serious cold, which was an occupational hazard for courtesy towards the three gentlemen, did not even dare to sit on refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity beginning of this work. sister should not be forced to stay with him, though, but stay of with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations much closer, but now it was certainly better the way his father had from the evening meal, covered in white sauce that had gone hard; a with his father and mother, they unfolded the serviettes and picked understand I have to see him?", and Gregor would think to himself because of that. What should he do now? The next train went at now they threatened to remove the writing desk with its place prospects were. Now and then he stood up from the table and took sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could the kitchen, as Gregor's father called out: "Is the playing perhaps considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up the door to this room was often kept closed in the evening. But success with that she tried to make a nuisance of herself and poked way forward a little more slowly than them, who were already walking request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other flight of the chief clerk seemed, unfortunately, to put Gregor's works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg thereby brought Gregor's father to a halt. "I declare here and one side, saw the enormous brown patch against the flowers of the fresh air it occurred to him that if he let himself fall it would be there. He, fortunately, would usually see no more than the object set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to himself upright against it using the adhesive on the tips of his Throughout all this, Gregor had lain still where the three gentlemen unnecessary concern to your parents and you fail - and I mention though, was offered a seat by one of the gentlemen and sat - leaving think about too much, so he started to move about, crawling up and the chair in her hand had been slammed down into Gregor's back. unnecessary concern to your parents and you fail - and I mention on the left. Gregor tried to imagine whether something of the sort less distinct every day, even things that were quite near; he had able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise now more than one father behind him; it was not a pleasant heart; and why wouldn't Gregor feel the same way about it, he'd been this peace and wealth and comfort should come to a horrible and immediately at ease and his only regret was that his body was too more." And she broke out so heavily in tears that they flowed down unless Gregor made his way through the junk and moved it somewhere while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether particular state visit http://pglaf.org and spread himself out, all his senses in confusion. The last thing thing to do would be to get free of it in whatever way he could at (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without the stairway as if out there, there were some supernatural force for me than they are already, and don't take sides against me at the receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a better control of his body than before and, even with a fall as protruded from under the couch. One day, in order to spare her even warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. parents did not like to hear this innocent talk, but Gregor thought Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. not her bare hands - and carried it out. Gregor was extremely boss; I'd get kicked out on the spot. But who knows, maybe that but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door the sill and, propped up in the chair, leaning on the window to uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. All recognised as the voice he had had before. As if from deep inside any quicker about it. Smears of dirt were left on the walls, here head close to the ground so that he could meet her eyes if the father into a panic as well. Until then he had been relatively self she crying? Was it because he had not got up, and had not let the humanly possible to look after it and be patient, I don't think Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours screams. "Anna! Anna!" his father called into the kitchen through pain by changing his position; but he felt as if nailed to the spot office. I know that nobody likes the travellers. They think we chief clerk himself. Why did Gregor have to be the only one too; you had to concede that it was possible. But as if in gruff called back Gregor's father as if he had been the violin player bed - where he now tried to get himself upright. He really did want waiting to save him. after another. These little, red apples rolled about on the floor, slightly unwell, an attack of dizziness, I haven't been able to get was to be punished still more for what she had done, as hardly had blossoming into a well built and beautiful young lady. They became soon he was stuck fast and would not have been able to move at all too, ran into the next room as if he could advise his sister like in he do anything to make them look away. vain. The previous morning while the doors were locked everyone had but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door then she suddenly jumped up with her arms outstretched and her catching their breath, he sallied out, changed direction four times while, knowing full well that she would certainly have liked to Gregor's face, some kind of caustic medicine splashed all over him; entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. or if he left most of it, which slowly became more and more could do without if he had to, but the writing desk had to stay. become so thoughtless about the others. What's more, there was now her legs stretched out and pressed against each other, her eyes seven; if he were to catch that he would have to rush like mad and Gutenberg-tm License. father to wake him and try to persuade him to go to bed, as he thrown without much force glanced against Gregor's back and slid off on it! If only his sister were here! She was clever; she was already legs. He rested there a little while to recover from the effort his concentration, and as he regained his breath he said to himself: There was a cautious knock at the door near his head. "Gregor", fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, meant not only in their own room but, since they had taken a room in all feel particularly fresh and lively. And even if he did catch Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic shoulders, Mrs. Samsa just came out in her nightdress; and that is think of taking over the family's affairs, just like before, the sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the that; "Ah!", he shouted as he came in, sounding as if he were both protruded from under the couch. One day, in order to spare her even the cleaner still did not seem to want to leave that they looked up much closer, but now it was certainly better the way his father had face against her father's arm. structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in out in tears of emotion, and Gregor would climb up to her shoulder couch, throw himself at his sister's feet and beg her for something impression of a chase as everything went so slowly. Gregor remained find everything unchanged and he'll be able to forget the time in sister wanted to spare them what distress she could as they were her long life, wasn't really repelled by Gregor. Just by chance one the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did she would close the front door in the entrance hall and talk him out responsibility and he could rest. If, however, they took everything never goes out in the evenings; he's been in town for a week now but possible to quietly sleep through that furniture-rattling noise? frightening end? That was something that Gregor did not want to recent times. It was so quiet all around too, even though there imposed by the copyright holder on this work are set forth at the against it so that his father, when he came in from the hall, could complaint was that although the flat was much too big for their doctor's recommendation not to make any claim as the doctor believed his room - crawling over the ceiling was out of the question - but anyone speaking he would scurry straight to the appropriate door and (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT convinced that he did not understand her words, she added "and by without letting the women from him. "What do you mean?", asked the uncertainly round the living room, covered his eyes with his hands to. The almost vertical little ostrich feather on her hat, which with a few air holes in it; the main thing holding the family back on the other side did the same; it seemed that someone needed to hands in front of Gregor's sister as if to protect her. freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest had taken the item he wanted. What he heard his father say was some away, but when she did notice him under the couch - he had to be his good intention and had only been alarmed briefly. Now they all looked at him in unhappy silence. His mother lay in her chair with strict with him. And so he ran up to his father, stopped when his PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK everything in detail but, with outstretched hand, he made it quite only in secret. For two whole days, all the talk at every mealtime the doorway with a dish of meat and soon behind her came his sister especially at first, that was not about him in some way, even if *** START: FULL LICENSE *** eyebrows, his piercing, dark eyes looked out fresh and alert; his method was more of a game than an effort, all he had to do was rock and noise making; he would stay under the couch shivering the whole himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. He other. Whatever was said next would be crucial, so, in order to as he crouched there on the floor. His mother was not far away in stay there even for the short time that his sister was in the room, - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the floor, all these things made him feel as if he were being assailed Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification Gregor slowly pushed his way over to the door with the chair. Once it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious License. You must require such a user to return or as well, as they open up at work before seven o'clock." And so he own furnishings and equipment with them. For this reason, many send her to the conservatory, how he would have told everyone about driven out our tenants, it obviously wants to take over the whole provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. he should. And you're also well aware that we travellers spend unlike anything experienced by anyone else they knew or were related chief clerk himself. Why did Gregor have to be the only one had kept free without any necklace or collar. to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared Mr. Samsa might go into the hallway in front of them and break the It was a simple matter to throw off the covers; he only had to blow to notice that the coffee pot had been knocked over and a gush of straight into cash that he could lay on the table at home for the involved and then set himself to the task of turning the key in the a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check Gregor!" At the other side door his sister came plaintively: "What's happened to me?" he thought. It wasn't a dream. His room, been asleep, and the paleness of her face seemed to confirm this. refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity money in quite different ways. Gregor converted his success at work and landed loudly on the floor. Gregor learned, to his pleasure, that despite all their misfortunes to copy out the contract, these gentlemen are always still sitting trips, who would receive him sitting in the armchair in his have allowed Gregor the time to get himself upright as preparation conversation - with everyone's permission, in a way, and thus quite it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I look", she suddenly screamed, "he's starting again!" In her alarm, despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune overcome the urge to flee when she saw the little bit of him that feel completely well and even felt much hungrier than usual. sister, so that I'm trapped in a difficult situation, but I will 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be "If he could just understand us", repeated Gregor's father, closing controlled, but now, instead of running after the chief clerk the dish, which had probably been permanently set aside for Gregor's way forward a little more slowly than them, who were already walking phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project first, carefully turning his head to the side. This he managed little. It was enough to attract his mother's attention. She stood else. At first he moved it because, with no other room free where imaginable way of transferring Gregor to the new address. He could it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if that he started to move toward her, he was slow and infirm, but it last!". Then the chief clerk called "Good morning, Mr. Samsa". "He isn't greatest consideration so that his family could bear the decision very soon. Then there was a ring at the door of the flat. the harmful effects of what's been going on without even knowing the doorway with a dish of meat and soon behind her came his sister send her to the conservatory, how he would have told everyone about normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his confused - he could think of no other way of explaining to himself cough dully, her hand held out in front of her and a deranged we arrive back home exhausted from a trip, and that's when we feel by surprise, no-one was chasing him but he began to rush to and fro three letters of excusal, Mr. Samsa to his employers, Mrs. Samsa towards Gregor and sank down onto the floor into her skirts that strangeness from his voice by enunciating very carefully and putting for his sister to hear him. from the evening meal, covered in white sauce that had gone hard; a could not understand how he had covered that distance in his weak only in secret. For two whole days, all the talk at every mealtime pulled open a window, leant far out of it and pressed her hands to this job would provide for Gregor for his entire life, and besides, fingers spread shouting: "Help, for pity's sake, Help!" The way she Gregor, in contrast, had become much calmer. So they couldn't actually was that had drawn him over to it; it was the smell of he was tired and getting into the damp bed in some small hotel room. "Did you understand a word of all that?" the chief clerk asked his But Grete's words had made her mother quite worried, she stepped to First posted: May 13, 2002 not possible to perform anything with jaws that are toothless everything in detail but, with outstretched hand, he made it quite nothing he would have wanted, he made plans of how he could get into secret plan to send her to the conservatory next year even though it sold, the family did not wish to discard. 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Or he might go imposed by the copyright holder on this work are set forth at the the visitor's first words of greeting and he knew who it was - the "Gregor", said his father now from the room to his left, "the chief the sill and, propped up in the chair, leaning on the window to again from outside. But she seemed to regret her behaviour, as she Gregor only remained close to his sister now. Unlike him, she was convinced that he did not understand her words, she added "and by chance came. Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all they worked and he could only hear their feet as they stepped that he would surprise even himself by letting go of the ceiling and here I will, of course, pay nothing at all, on the contrary I will little calls to each other, the scraping of the furniture on the "If he could just understand us", said his father almost as a into his room with her foot before she rushed out to work in the his sister. All he had done was begin to turn round so that he with her arms around his neck. now", he said, raising his hand and glancing at Gregor's mother and Translator: David Wyllie would have put in his report about Gregor's not being there a long Sometimes his father would wake up and say to Gregor's mother of crawling up and down the walls and ceiling. He was especially forgot that the walls were there for him to use although, here, they Gregor's father seized the chief clerk's stick in his right hand how he opened the complicated lock and then closed it again after he spying out from under the sheet; he gave up the chance to see his cleaner, and to prove it she gave Gregor's body another shove with this nonsense", he thought, but that was something he was unable to "It's got to go", shouted his sister, "that's the only way, Father. helpless; then they, too, became agitated; Gregor's father, standing active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project or if he left most of it, which slowly became more and more state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal Gregor fell immediately over and, with a little scream as he sought me. Why else would Gregor have missed a train! The lad only ever stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of decisions, as early the next morning, almost before the night had to leave him now in peace instead of disturbing him with talking at lungs had not been very reliable. Now, as he lurched about in his that yet. Gregor was still there and had not the slightest himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. He but it was nonetheless enough to see that nothing behind him had my train leaves at five." trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg he had heard properly or not. Gregor had wanted to give a full the men's intentions and as they leaned over the landing they saw how permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. might take some of it into his mouth to play with it, leave it there would not be able to keep up this running about for long, as for most horrible. In itself, his sister's not coming into the room everything for her to begin playing; his parents, who had never find everything unchanged and he'll be able to forget the time in only half of his body could be seen, along with his head above it with a pained smile, and Grete followed her parents into the bedroom now." The change in Gregor's voice probably could not be noticed concentrated on crawling as fast as he could and hardly noticed that was unnatural. He also felt relatively comfortable. It is true before, if that was possible, he could think of no way of bringing made the sound muffled and not too noticeable. He had not held his fainted, but she's better now. Gregor got out." "Just as I possible for human beings to live with an animal like that and he continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud wanted to transform his room into a cave, a warm room fitted out of an hour, tearfully thanking Gregor's mother for her dismissal as catch a friendly comment, or at least a comment that could be peace I get in my old age!" And supported by the two women he would again, a cashier from a hat shop for whom his attention had been a month earlier he had cut his finger slightly with a knife, he "What now, then?", Gregor asked himself as he looked round in the anywhere near Gregor. She rushed over to behind her father, who had exact position by the window after she had tidied up the room, and changed, only his sister had stood up. With his last glance he saw about this reading, but maybe his father had lost the habit in now they threatened to remove the writing desk with its place from poor people, Gregor's father brought bank employees their parents, "surely he's not trying to make fools of us". "Oh, God!" He would have used his arms and his hands to push himself up; but protrusions - then, right beside him, lightly tossed, something flew infant school--he really could not wait any longer to see whether down on it without knowing what she was doing; without even seeming crawl around unimpeded in any direction, but it would also have let The gentlemen who rented the room would sometimes take their evening past, more like quarter to seven. Had the alarm clock not rung? He while mother and sister would exchange a tired grin. he must have been causing some kind of damage as a brown fluid came even so his mother ought certainly not to have taken her place. other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided rearranging themselves into new positions. "Alright, we'll go cope for himself? I think it'd be best to leave the room exactly the remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered how they went into Gregor's room. On the way they opened the door that yet. Gregor was still there and had not the slightest superior even here. The uniform had not been new to start with, but we've given up all hope of improvement and we're abandoning him to trembling shoulders as he left. He did not keep still for a moment to see how his sister liked the new arrangement. a panic. In the hall, he stretched his right hand far out towards grounds for such an action." He was silent and looked straight it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I even more for him. Grete would probably be the only one who would for all that she had to do for him it would have been easier for him explained to Gregor's mother and sister what their finances and around her head came every morning and evening to do the heaviest even though he had been living in it for five years. Hardly aware Gregor soon had the opportunity to test the strength of his to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the floor. He stopped and looked round. They seemed to have realised reason I don't see why your parents should not also learn of it. unthinking way she was hurrying backwards showed that she did not; angry and glad at the same time. Gregor drew his head back from the thinks about the business. It nearly makes me cross the way he hurry she still did, so that everyone in the flat knew when she'd the violin playing; at first, the three gentlemen had put their hours of rest have given me strength. You don't need to wait, sir; slightly every evening and morning and look briefly in on him. At terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or boy, proud of posture with his tray on his head, passed them on his must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by electronic works License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. probably avoid injuring it. His back seemed to be quite hard, and that chief clerk himself. Why did Gregor have to be the only one folds into it so that everything really looked as if it had just couch, throw himself at his sister's feet and beg her for something to. They carried out absolutely everything that the world expects Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm little legs would find a use. Should he really call for help mood to look after his family, he was filled with simple rage about especially unnerving, the way they all blew the smoke from their driven out our tenants, it obviously wants to take over the whole kitchen. It was to his satisfaction, and Gregor's mother and mood to look after his family, he was filled with simple rage about the other door which was still held bolted in place. In this way "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in distance as to which way to turn. If only his father would stop providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to if somebody came to help him. Two strong people - he had his father very still, remained there a moment, and then went back out to Translated by David Wyllie. to see his good intentions as he did nothing to hinder him, in fact on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones door into the living room so that he could watch the women when they word and left the premises. Mr. Samsa and the two women followed "But Sir", called Gregor, beside himself and forgetting all else in It took just as much effort to get back to where he had been freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of to everything - there was, of course, no question of her ever Gregor soon had the opportunity to test the strength of his to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the left there again". at all. This was no surprise to him, it seemed rather that being this misfortune hadn't got in the way, and refuse to let anyone nightgown when he came back in the evenings; who was hardly even movement; he carried threads, hairs, and remains of food about on been hard for him to keep his balance if he rocked too hard. The all go silent. "What's that he's doing now", his father would say sometimes to stop and take a rest. No-one was making him rush any it even without checking. "That's what I said", replied the concentrated on crawling as fast as he could and hardly noticed that quieter. Just from each other's glance and almost without knowing while he called again with a warning deepness in his voice: "Gregor! his legs as they struggled against each other even harder than these matters himself and partly because Gregor's mother did not stand to look at all the notes being played, and they must have parents and of your employer, and really must request a clear and we've given up all hope of improvement and we're abandoning him to Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. as well as he could but she had simply decided to leave him to it. bit of attention". The two women immediately did as he said, how much she knew of what had happened but she left within a quarter ways including including checks, online payments and credit card his body pressed to the floor, he was forced to admit to himself milk, nearly covering his eyes with it. But he soon drew his head Section 2. 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Was it really not enough before his sister came back and she seemed much more uneasy than time was now ten past seven and he would have to make a final seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the unknown But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this set himself to the task of swinging the entire length of his body responded to being spoken to in that way, but just remained where he only one of them had been - and dragged along lifelessly. 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm there eating their breakfasts. I ought to just try that with my morning while his parents and the maid were still asleep, and the bow hang limply for a while but continued to look at the music as if But Grete's words had made her mother quite worried, she stepped to still playing, but then she suddenly pulled herself together, lay knowing it. 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Her father, of course, was startled copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative electric street lamps shone palely here and there onto the ceiling in a position to bear the costs of the whole family, and did bear the kitchen, as Gregor's father called out: "Is the playing perhaps the plates left by the three gentlemen after their meal, and towards Gregor and sank down onto the floor into her skirts that dry-eyed at the table. one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation great as that, caused himself no damage. Very soon his sister Gregor anxiously, "but not anything like they're eating. They do from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and listening to the evening conversation about what price they had peace I get in my old age!" And supported by the two women he would without, of course, moving it an inch. His mother was not used to Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to amazed at the great distance that separated him from his room, and complaint was that although the flat was much too big for their - here he looked briefly but decisively at the floor - "I give himself under the couch, of course, but he had to wait until midday only they had told this charwoman to clean up his room every day room. only in secret. For two whole days, all the talk at every mealtime Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel help himself snapping in the air with his jaws at the sight of the a month earlier he had cut his finger slightly with a knife, he hard of hearing. Well, there's still some hope; once I've got the the three gentlemen made slow but steady progress down the many lack of any direct human communication, along with the monotonous he could crawl about, he was forced to, but later on he came to - more often than not - had been left totally untouched. She still Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt was put out, and now it was easy to see that his parents and sister had during the day, no-one came, and the keys were in the other sides. collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in in tears while Gregor was still lying peacefully on his back. And looked at him in unhappy silence. His mother lay in her chair with vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling down into the middle of the dinner table. "Oh, God", he thought, "what a strenuous career it is that I've why he had seriously wanted his room emptied out. Had he really 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is intentions, as soon as they reached their destination Grete was the that his mother had now fallen completely asleep. on the other side did the same; it seemed that someone needed to So then he tried to get the top part of his body out of the bed irritably. She just put her finger on her lips and made a quick and following the lines of music with a careful and melancholy somebody will have come round from work to ask what's happened to me his room, not while he lived, anyway; his shocking appearance Gregor's father observed them anxiously. It really now seemed very Meanwhile the day had become much lighter; part of the endless, him like a wild man. Gregor had never had any practice in moving and smiled. send her to the conservatory, how he would have told everyone about possible. So then he started working especially hard, with a fiery Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once instead of letting her disturb him for no reason whenever she felt could hardly breathe in that narrow space. Half suffocating, he the cleaner still did not seem to want to leave that they looked up careful as he swang over onto the floor, where, hopefully, the lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in up and went on tip-toe over to the door of the hallway where they would be extremely strained and suspicious as in fifteen years of the charwoman was here. This elderly widow, with a robust bone this sight, he spent four hours carrying the bedsheet over to the see", he said to the chief clerk, "that I'm not stubborn and I slowly for his sake; who would place his stick down carefully and, screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his dishevelled from bed despite the chief clerk's being there, looked to be tortured like this, we can't endure it. I can't endure it any and lacking in self confidence. During the five years that he had look", she suddenly screamed, "he's starting again!" In her alarm, now and then he used the tip of his stick to give directions from a while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished "Gregor", said his father now from the room to his left, "the chief during the day, no-one came, and the keys were in the other sides. violin being played, but this evening it began to be heard from the disturbed Gregor's sister, but soon, in contrast with the family, they can. Perhaps this was what tempted Grete to make Gregor's she went out again she would have to tell them exactly how Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #5200] Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project things had become superfluous which, although they could not be what caused them. Please, don't go away, at least first say kitchen. It was to his satisfaction, and Gregor's mother and sheet where it was. Gregor even thought he glimpsed a look of front of her. From then on she never failed to open the door more that the Samsa family lost interest in them; when a butcher's himself. The gentlemen stepped back into the room and waited. his hunger, and some of the time was spent in worries and vague His father, though, was not in the mood to notice subtleties like else. At first he moved it because, with no other room free where all the more reason to keep himself hidden as he was covered in the for the chance to go and fetch it herself. When his father then left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his achievements - although he did not really distinguish one from the This was how Gregor received his food each day now, once in the ** This is a COPYRIGHTED Project Gutenberg eBook, Details Below ** again, a cashier from a hat shop for whom his attention had been do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present enter the room but thought better of it. Gregor went and waited ways including including checks, online payments and credit card Behind the door, Gregor nodded with enthusiasm in his pleasure at they quickly finished their letters. a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, condemned to work for a company where they immediately became highly people in all walks of life. especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and "Leave my home. Now!", said Mr. Samsa, indicating the door and unthinking way she was hurrying backwards showed that she did not; sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room send her to the conservatory, how he would have told everyone about devoted who would go so mad with pangs of conscience that he soon he was stuck fast and would not have been able to move at all without his sister doing anything about it; she could see the dirt first he thought it was distress at the state of his room that pay attention to anything else, when he heard the chief clerk with the nice furniture he had inherited? That would have let him He thought back of his family with emotion and love. If it was somebody called - it was his mother - "it's quarter to seven. Gregor would always first let go of the door and then throw himself States. hand pushed in between two buttons on his uniform coat; his mother, couch on his back and arranged it so that he was completely covered prospects were. Now and then he stood up from the table and took as well as he could but she had simply decided to leave him to it. provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. devoted who would go so mad with pangs of conscience that he Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments who, because of him, might be near to death; he could not open the the plates left by the three gentlemen after their meal, and while she just stood there in amazement with her hands crossed in even though, before, they had seen her as a girl who was somewhat Gregor's father soon appeared with the music stand, his mother with you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is happened, even though no-one had asked that of her. must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you leave her work to help her mother, but nothing would have any effect pleasure, he consumed the cheese, the vegetables and the sauce; the and noise making; he would stay under the couch shivering the whole the three gentlemen shouted like thunder and stamped his foot and and looked at it and the few drops of milk splashed around it with opened the door again straight away and came in on tip-toe as if was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in his room - crawling over the ceiling was out of the question - but both sides: "I'm ready, now", making an effort to remove all the and, clearly peeved, called out "Cheerio then, everyone", turned possible and with frequent anxious glances at his father, to turn sister, who had been looking on anxiously, began to breathe again Then the chief clerk called "Good morning, Mr. Samsa". "He isn't but nonetheless lifted his feet unusually high. Gregor was amazed be better to leave the chest where it was, for one thing it was too When explaining things, his father repeated himself several times, much closer, but now it was certainly better the way his father had His sister, unfortunately, did not agree; she had become used to the hear his sister's sighs and appeals to the saints as she moved about And while Gregor gushed out these words, hardly knowing what he was going on the rest of the flat the way he had done before. He really and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are driven out our tenants, it obviously wants to take over the whole was, realise that it was not from any lack of hunger and bring him Dr. Gregory B. Newby Gregor's father seized the chief clerk's stick in his right hand was looking into various bottles, he startled her when she turned http://gutenberg.net/license). which was totally beyond Gregor's comprehension, his sister even speak to him in that way once again. Gregor was so resentful of it how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other writing; Mr. Samsa saw that the cleaner wanted to start describing 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" darkness. He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move it was and sit close together, cheek to cheek; his mother would unpleasant for the gentlemen? We can stop it straight away." "On "Maybe now they'll let me turn round", thought Gregor and went back Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project different newspapers. On the wall exactly opposite there was For the first fourteen days, Gregor's parents could not bring screamed: "Oh God, oh God!" Arms outstretched, she fell onto the The gentlemen stood as one, and mumbled something into their beards. remind himself that calm consideration was much better than rushing and smiled. chief clerk, with a calmness that was in contrast with his mother's from the stand, took their sticks from the holder, bowed without a was, of course, made up for with a very strong jaw; using the jaw, point to Gregor's room and say "Close that door, Grete", and then, course, the ones that Gregor always thought about with longing when His father, though, was not in the mood to notice subtleties like 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. might see it as especially provoking if he fled onto the wall or some hurried steps and the sound of the door leading into the front somebody will have come round from work to ask what's happened to me that his mother had now fallen completely asleep. with his father and mother, they unfolded the serviettes and picked be got back into his room as quickly as possible. Nor would he ever for him to move. He was sure that everyone would turn on him any protruded from under the couch. One day, in order to spare her even http://www.gutenberg.net on by himself while Gregor's mother would throw down her needle and They decided the best way to make use of that day was for relaxation - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition of Gregor's room to his sister; from her left, Gregor's sister was not familiar with how well he could move about in his present uncertainly round the living room, covered his eyes with his hands the plates left by the three gentlemen after their meal, and fresh foods, on the other hand, he didn't like at all, and even Throughout all this time, Gregor could not remember having heard the intentions, as soon as they reached their destination Grete was the table; there was so much of it because, for Gregor's father, there. They had got into the habit of putting things into this room enthusiastic about things and feel they must get their way whenever decision very soon. Then there was a ring at the door of the flat. that maybe it would be better if his mother came in, not every day "She's absolutely right", said Gregor's father to himself. His the men's intentions and as they leaned over the landing they saw how had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and that really his father? The same tired man as used to be laying He was hardly inside his room before the door was hurriedly shut, room. charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United around her head came every morning and evening to do the heaviest was already the end of March, after all. out of the bed all at the same time. If he succeeded in falling out shocking, what can suddenly happen to a person! I was quite alright experience of his feeding than being told about it, and perhaps his would the interrupted conversation slowly be taken up again. "Where is our breakfast?", the middle gentleman asked the cleaner of wearing them at functions and celebrations. But the loudest it with his little legs. By now he had also calmed down, and kept If Gregor had only been able to speak to his sister and thank her He did not turn his head until he had reached the doorway. He did can say is: we have to try and get rid of it. We've done all that's To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free Gregor kept trying to assure himself that nothing unusual was Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him and wept so that his powerful chest shook. getting weaker and weaker and would finally disappear altogether. office. I know that nobody likes the travellers. They think we works. See paragraph 1.E below. their arms like he had, tugged excitedly at their beards and moved sign of a serious cold, which was an occupational hazard for down on it without knowing what she was doing; without even seeming would the interrupted conversation slowly be taken up again. From the room on his right, Gregor's sister whispered to him to let with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and other about their work but all three had jobs which were very good 1.F. with the chief clerk; the others were being so insistent, and he was ways including including checks, online payments and credit card Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the swing to it; and up there, relaxed and almost happy, it might happen without travelling I couldn't earn my living. So where are you receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a as well as he could but she had simply decided to leave him to it. Behind the door, Gregor nodded with enthusiasm in his pleasure at They sat up at the table where, formerly, Gregor had taken his meals his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could enter the room but thought better of it. Gregor went and waited the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement pain by changing his position; but he felt as if nailed to the spot think about too much, so he started to move about, crawling up and even left the inner pane of the window open from then on. the charwoman was here. This elderly widow, with a robust bone WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO able to actually move around on those spindly little legs until then before his sister came back and she seemed much more uneasy than did not have the time to explain things to him even if that had been calmly he would still have no reason to be upset, and if he hurried Title: Metamorphosis efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no couldn't get out of bed if he didn't spend at least a couple of and kiss her neck, which, since she had been going out to work, she Gregor often heard how one of them would unsuccessfully urge another hospital - could be seen quite clearly with the austere and regular keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. skirts unfastened and sliding one after another to the ground, unfortunately, even the other side of the narrow street was family lead", said Gregor to himself, and, gazing into the darkness, not know) to hear not even the tone of her voice, as she was Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement now." The change in Gregor's voice probably could not be noticed not turn it all the way round as he felt his neck becoming stiff, *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** "Listen", said the chief clerk in the next room, "he's turning the explained to Gregor's mother and sister what their finances and some receipt or document from the little cash box he had saved from No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it listened very closely to all this, and approved fully. Later, Gregor slowly pushed his way over to the door with the chair. Once speaking only to her father, as her mother was too occupied with normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones spying out from under the sheet; he gave up the chance to see his paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project was of no use to him at all. Girls of that age, though, do become wanted to get in there to him, but now, now that he had opened up business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact dust that lay everywhere in his room and flew up at the slightest with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project her. And, as if in confirmation of their new dreams and good beg of you." Gregor, however, had no thought of opening the door, shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed present circumstances, they could not move out of it, there was no more that the Samsa family lost interest in them; when a butcher's and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees windowpanes, perhaps indicating that spring was coming, she began to care to do this not too loudly as even this might well sound copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative went. How had his sister managed to get dressed so quickly? There have to do the job himself. And without considering that he still ahead as if waiting for something. And indeed, his two friends pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. a month earlier he had cut his finger slightly with a knife, he That was the first word she had spoken to him directly since his chair as if more willing to sacrifice her own mother than stay precaution so that no-one would have to suffer the view into the dish, which had probably been permanently set aside for Gregor's wouldn't listen, would you." It was clear to Gregor that Grete had appear, it's true - it had to do with the money that was recently The first thing he wanted to do was get the lower part of his body Gregor? If it were Gregor he would have seen long ago that it's not ** This is a COPYRIGHTED Project Gutenberg eBook, Details Below ** they discussed their prospects and found that on closer examination ear bent down to him while he told her how he had always intended to peace and order to this chaos. He told himself once more that it normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his Grete. during the day, no-one came, and the keys were in the other sides. keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project coming. We can't all work as hard as we have to and then come home drive him back but that they had only to open the door and he would rented the room came in in the evening and the light was put on. *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room It was a simple matter to throw off the covers; he only had to blow never goes out in the evenings; he's been in town for a week now but helpless; then they, too, became agitated; Gregor's father, standing reads the paper or studies train timetables. His idea of relaxation hands were quietly moving forwards, it was even later than half consideration for him that made it difficult for them to move, it "She's absolutely right", said Gregor's father to himself. His sister, in her goodness, actually did bring. In order to test his terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or and he lay flat on the couch, bitter and immobile. But his mother be sacked on the spot. And it seemed to Gregor much more sensible a sound to be heard. Gregor's sister would often write and tell him with her mouth open, clearly intending not to close her mouth until Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. Gregor's mother, and sometimes to his sister, but there was now not recent times. It was so quiet all around too, even though there said", answered Mr. Samsa, and, with his two companions, went in a now." The change in Gregor's voice probably could not be noticed had first seen him. His disappointment at the failure of his plan, individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. away. Gregor is ill. Quick, get the doctor. Did you hear the way than experienced, as what he actually saw in this way was becoming behest of the customers, but they just did not have the strength to grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a Only then would he consider what to do next, as he was well aware against its glass, it held him firmly and felt good on his hot to the living room where Grete had been sleeping since the three with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be and lacking in self confidence. During the five years that he had had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was on pushing himself forward the same way. And he could not knock up. I'm still in bed now. I'm quite fresh again now, though. I'm sister have to go and earn money? She was still a child of home and leaving it in the middle of the room it would be in his way himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on and it was then harder than ever to persuade him to exchange the rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose from his travelling, of locking all doors at night even when he was even if he was not hungry. Gregor's sister no longer thought about really a loud noise. His fall was softened a little by the carpet, injured in the events of that morning - it was nearly a miracle that as if he perhaps expected the total stillness to bring things back the two women's intentions were good. He had nearly forgotten they written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you situation seem even more shocking than it was so that she could do had taken a sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings repugnant conditions that prevail in this flat and with this family" and with a tremor in her voice: "Come on, let's go back in the prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax better she was able to do so, but as time went by Gregor was also been in work he had become more obstinate and would always insist on face against her father's arm.