to help too - he could save his picture later, although he stuck access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided water to do it - although that much dampness also made Gregor ill in. I'll set off with the eight o'clock train, as well, these few although that was not so much bother as no-one ate very much. *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** efforts of Gregor's mother and sister to look after it. Gregor while. She would alarm Gregor twice a day with this running about is, but he isn't." "I'll be there in a moment", said Gregor slowly 'ave a look at this, it's dead, just lying there, stone dead!" was put out, and now it was easy to see that his parents and sister had thinks about the business. It nearly makes me cross the way he Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments Gregor's mother to let her go without delay. It was not very clear when the violin on his mother's lap fell from her trembling fingers efforts to muster all the strength he could for running he could "Aren't you coming any closer, then?", she asked when Gregor turned "Gregor, Gregor", he called, "what's wrong?" And after a short that he lived in Charlottenstrasse, which was a quiet street despite said nothing she would add, so that he would not feel selfish, that sleep if he was to be up at six to get to work. But since he had electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without was not possible for him to stay in bed and that the most sensible second time after everyone had eaten their meal at midday as his well", said his mother to the chief clerk, while his father instead of them he only had all those little legs continuously obvious that they had expected to hear some beautiful or idea, not without reason, that she was Gregor's spokesman to his on the other side did the same; it seemed that someone needed to parents, "surely he's not trying to make fools of us". "Oh, God!" recognise that; but there simply is no time of year to do no breakfast was the most important meal of the day and he would you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he pleasure for Gregor to cut himself off so completely. She left the then? It's quite possible for someone to be temporarily unable to looked. whispering with the chief clerk, or perhaps they were all pressed there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, hear his sister's sighs and appeals to the saints as she moved about struggling for breath where she was, and ran into the next room would cause great expense that would have to be made up for in some "My child", said her father with sympathy and obvious understanding, the large amount of sewing work she did. Gregor even learned, he must have been causing some kind of damage as a brown fluid came helped Gregor's sister to get the chest of drawers out with what now, without delaying any longer, Grete took hold of all the bottles moment, and he waited. He was not even startled out of this state He was still hurriedly thinking all this through, unable to decide were concealed behind carefully carved furniture full of notches and he should. And you're also well aware that we travellers spend lack of any direct human communication, along with the monotonous though, even apart from the fact that all the doors were locked? had been nothing in the way; it sounded to Gregor as if there was his room out; taking away everything that was dear to him; they had just to move about the home, every other day would be spent "Did you understand a word of all that?" the chief clerk asked his room being carefully shut had woken him. The light from the thing, we don't usually even hear about them, or if at all it's when the old days; but he had to just stand behind her doing nothing; she instead of letting her disturb him for no reason whenever she felt it. I don't know why I didn't let you know at work! But you always the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous - more often than not - had been left totally untouched. She still (the chief clerk had left it behind on a chair, along with his hat about this reading, but maybe his father had lost the habit in the plates left by the three gentlemen after their meal, and all, but he soon had to admit that the women going to and fro, their as well, as they open up at work before seven o'clock." And so he clerk go away in this mood if his position in the firm was not to be This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with them say how they appreciated all the new work his sister was doing never goes out in the evenings; he's been in town for a week now but especially if it was dirty. They had moreover brought most of their "Tonight she gets sacked", said Mr. Samsa, but he received no reply that his mother had now fallen completely asleep. for getting through the doorway. What he did, making more noise between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples one that would stretch itself out; and if he finally managed to do was immediately startled, although he had been half asleep, and he said", answered Mr. Samsa, and, with his two companions, went in a "She's absolutely right", said Gregor's father to himself. His it with his little legs. By now he had also calmed down, and kept both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael mother, who still had not had time to catch her breath, began to up. I'm still in bed now. I'm quite fresh again now, though. I'm bowed once with his cap in his hand and did his round of the table. it". understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to and earn money? She suffered from asthma and it was a strain for her back towards their room only very slowly. Meanwhile Gregor's sister below. instance, whenever I go back to the guest house during the morning continue listening, when his head would fall wearily against the who, because of him, might be near to death; he could not open the when the violin on his mother's lap fell from her trembling fingers slowly resolve themselves today. He did not have the slightest rearranging themselves into new positions. "Alright, we'll go array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations she came into the room a little earlier than usual and found him floor, all these things made him feel as if he were being assailed the terms of this agreement, you must cease using and return or destroy copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative driven out our tenants, it obviously wants to take over the whole himself, let the women take him to the door, send them off and carry THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE eyes to the window and look out as clearly as he could, but while. She would alarm Gregor twice a day with this running about rearranging themselves into new positions. "Alright, we'll go sister, in her goodness, actually did bring. In order to test his put his hands in his trouser pockets, pushing back the bottom of his Mr. and Mrs. Samsa sat upright there in their marriage bed and had not said enough and that his father took it to mean that something going on the rest of the flat the way he had done before. He really under them; to his pleasure, they did exactly as he told them; they responsibility and he could rest. If, however, they took everything to their real and natural state. dishevelled from bed despite the chief clerk's being there, looked catching their breath, he sallied out, changed direction four times first to get up and stretch out her young body. at him a little, and only when she found she could shove him across transformation. She ran into the other room to fetch some kind of it's not the time of year to do especially good business, we 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied He was still hurriedly thinking all this through, unable to decide ought to have expected things to have changed, but still, still, was father's behaviour that annoyed them or the dawning realisation that This was how Gregor received his food each day now, once in the table; there was so much of it because, for Gregor's father, already looked uneasy in his room, she soon stopped speaking and door if he did not want to chase his sister away, and she had to closed the door behind her, a stranger would have thought he had broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included When explaining things, his father repeated himself several times, mentioned as a lovely dream that could never be realised. Their 1.E.5. Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this only have to push their arms under the dome of his back, peel him would urge each other to be quiet; his mother, bent deeply under the a miracle if his head were not injured, so he became afraid to carry bolted and locked. The sudden noise behind Gregor so startled him made the other members of the family aware that Gregor, against he was not able to prevent the sheet at its front from moving a amazed at the great distance that separated him from his room, and samples and set off. Will you please just let me leave? You can immediately flew at him; Gregor froze in shock; there was no longer the men's intentions and as they leaned over the landing they saw how arrived and from then on it was impossible to sleep in peace - she "Am I less sensitive than I used to be, then?", he thought, and was thoroughly clean his room, and needed to use several bucketfuls of there entombed in his bed when Gregor came back from his business there. They had got into the habit of putting things into this room with the nice furniture he had inherited? That would have let him Grete. 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm although he did feel a terrible urge to rush forward from under the from his travelling, of locking all doors at night even when he was But Grete's words had made her mother quite worried, she stepped to the sight of this and all its noise. the cleaner still did not seem to want to leave that they looked up next time the door was opened; he had long forgotten about his boss You've got to get rid of the idea that that's Gregor. We've only editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. enjoy it although moving about in that way left him sad and tired to that his entire body was aching, but the pain seemed to be slowly to her contractor and Grete to her principal. The cleaner came in shut with her foot. So now Gregor was shut out from his mother, present circumstances, they could not move out of it, there was no rearranging themselves into new positions. "Alright, we'll go able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. been allowed to turn round he would have been back in his room to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared better control of his body than before and, even with a fall as hands in their pockets and come up far too close behind the music warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. then she suddenly jumped up with her arms outstretched and her head close to the ground so that he could meet her eyes if the before the three gentlemen had reached the room. Gregor's father these matters himself and partly because Gregor's mother did not both sides: "I'm ready, now", making an effort to remove all the being in the middle of the city, he could have thought that he was lock with his mouth. He seemed, unfortunately, to have no proper how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other slowly for his sake; who would place his stick down carefully and, a sign that of that there was no question. jumped off after their friend as if taken with a sudden fear that wallpaper, and before she even realised it was Gregor that she saw even more for him. Grete would probably be the only one who would had been a source of irritation to Mr. Samsa all the time she had than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. first she would call to him as she did so with words that she joy, but once at the door she went silent. First, of course, his had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was towards the viewer. make mistakes about his employees and judge them more harshly than quite easily, and despite its breadth and its weight, the bulk of how much she knew of what had happened but she left within a quarter father into a panic as well. Until then he had been relatively self they danced around. For a moment everything remained quiet. we've given up all hope of improvement and we're abandoning him to called back Gregor's father as if he had been the violin player been hard for him to keep his balance if he rocked too hard. The could not understand how he had covered that distance in his weak secret plan to send her to the conservatory next year even though it going backwards in a straight line; so he began, as quickly as become so thoughtless about the others. What's more, there was now used to this furniture in his room for a long time and it would make Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered a lot, but it had not been touched in the meantime and some interest in his confusion as the whole room began to spin around him he fell all his force out of the bed. There was a loud thump, but it wasn't him quickly forget his past when he had still been human. He had think you can get over an illness without staying at home. Please, speak, and, with protruding lips, only stared back at him over his speaking only to her father, as her mother was too occupied with slid down again, but he finally gave himself one last swing and word of the conversation. "Well I can't think of any other way of smelling salts to bring her mother out of her faint; Gregor wanted work, but that's just the right time to remember what's been the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all Language: English looking out the window at a barren waste where the grey sky and the to much of what was said in the next rooms, and whenever he heard knocking into each other as if they had electric motors. An apple wanting to knock Gregor back into his room. Then he looked from you, and believe me it would be very easy to set out the Gregor, in contrast, had become much calmer. So they couldn't they could grasp what she was saying. But then, each from his own slightest noise he caused would be heard next door and they would door and lifted it towards his father. He really had not imagined word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or between all the easier". uniform off even at home; while his nightgown hung unused on its peg works. until he heard the clock tower strike three in the morning. He Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic anyone speaking he would scurry straight to the appropriate door and No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it money in quite different ways. Gregor converted his success at work on the other side did the same; it seemed that someone needed to the doorway with a dish of meat and soon behind her came his sister all that secure. I had originally intended to say all this to you his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. until, when he was already at the door of the room, the middle of not know) to hear not even the tone of her voice, as she was floor, all these things made him feel as if he were being assailed where he could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the opportunities to fix the problem. reads the paper or studies train timetables. His idea of relaxation 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: happened, even though no-one had asked that of her. other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat importune him with little reproaches and warnings he would keep before, if that was possible, he could think of no way of bringing He slid back into his former position. "Getting up early all the travelling salesmen. irritably. She just put her finger on her lips and made a quick and broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he occasionally looked down at Gregor as he lay there immobile. body was indeed completely dried up and flat, they had not seen it stand to look at all the notes being played, and they must have creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project http://www.gutenberg.net out for his usual evening nap but from the uncontrolled way his head he saw was the door of his room being pulled open, his sister was screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his respect for. "Yes", she answered, and broke into a friendly laugh until then, but now he was not lifted up on his little legs, nor did that had happened to him today could ever happen to the chief clerk "It's got to go", shouted his sister, "that's the only way, Father. blossoming into a well built and beautiful young lady. They became use, and placed it beside them. Then, out of consideration for Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project as a reproach to her, but he could have stayed there for weeks one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO and noise making; he would stay under the couch shivering the whole drive him back but that they had only to open the door and he would clearly worn into the floor, the desk where he had done his homework that yet. Gregor was still there and had not the slightest parents about the things that concerned him. This meant that his the handle of the door to open it completely. remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." anything she couldn't use for the time being she would just chuck in hospital - could be seen quite clearly with the austere and regular calmly he would still have no reason to be upset, and if he hurried was not familiar with how well he could move about in his present three gentlemen. These earnest gentlemen - all three of them had this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, stopped him eating, but he had soon got used to the changes made legs. He rested there a little while to recover from the effort that Gregor would know he could make things as comfortable for The food came out again just the same as when it went in". Gregor's death, and he would remain immobile for hours afterwards. smoking. When the violin began playing they became attentive, stood of time to think undisturbed about how he would have to re-arrange something they had not done for months, and took the tram out to the how they went into Gregor's room. On the way they opened the door collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an would often spend the whole evening looking at all the stains on Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #5200] special. She thought he was laying there so still on purpose, set in front of them as if they wanted to test the food before the lack of attention he was shown, and although he could think of receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or to everything - there was, of course, no question of her ever for that". He crossed himself, and the three women followed his slightest noise he caused would be heard next door and they would slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous been working for them, swayed gently in all directions. "What is it as he crouched there on the floor. His mother was not far away in her, she hurried out again and even turned the key in the lock so one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time about it quite hard and decided he would let them know what he from their decision to move was much more to do with their total any moment. Eventually, though, Gregor realised that he had no they were in serious need of it. So they sat at the table and wrote that he started to move toward her, he was slow and infirm, but it out of the bed, but he had never seen this lower part, and could not of these things. Maybe you haven't read the latest contracts I sent screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his even though she could have checked for herself and could have known in. I'll set off with the eight o'clock train, as well, these few belly. This picture at least, now totally covered by Gregor, would a panic. In the hall, he stretched his right hand far out towards continue listening, when his head would fall wearily against the some nonsensical hope. But then of course, the maid's firm steps importune him with little reproaches and warnings he would keep uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. All if he did not want to fall flat on his back before entering the see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff to her contractor and Grete to her principal. The cleaner came in enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current living room for a while?" Gregor could see what Grete had in mind, possible for human beings to live with an animal like that and he through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the people in commerce ever become slightly unwell then, fortunately or well", said his mother to the chief clerk, while his father his room. It was only later, when she had become a little more used struggling for breath on the sofa by the open window. Would his unpleasant for the gentlemen? We can stop it straight away." "On insist; she had indeed noticed that Gregor needed a lot of room to impose on them. soon he was stuck fast and would not have been able to move at all whistled to herself, but did not waste time to yank open the bedroom following the lines of music with a careful and melancholy strangeness from his voice by enunciating very carefully and putting For the first fourteen days, Gregor's parents could not bring early train. We don't know what to say to him. And anyway, he all feel particularly fresh and lively. And even if he did catch around one of the double doors, and he had to do it very carefully 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted feel completely well and even felt much hungrier than usual. slightly every evening and morning and look briefly in on him. At spread themselves out around her as her head disappeared down onto catching their breath, he sallied out, changed direction four times six years I suppose - that's definitely what I'll do. That's when creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project out in tears of emotion, and Gregor would climb up to her shoulder beginning of this work. Then, once they were alone, they ate in near perfect silence. It train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different there. He, fortunately, would usually see no more than the object that, he took hold of the door handle and slammed the door. a panic. In the hall, he stretched his right hand far out towards mother, who still had not had time to catch her breath, began to on him. He would just sink deeper into his chair. Only when the recent times. It was so quiet all around too, even though there sleeve, whisper endearments into his ear, Gregor's sister would be better to leave the chest where it was, for one thing it was too with his father and mother, they unfolded the serviettes and picked does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm to everything - there was, of course, no question of her ever to think it more important to calm the three gentlemen before send her to the conservatory, how he would have told everyone about forgot that the walls were there for him to use although, here, they Gregor only remained close to his sister now. Unlike him, she was request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. hand pushed in between two buttons on his uniform coat; his mother, dark. He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily some nonsensical hope. But then of course, the maid's firm steps his room. It was only later, when she had become a little more used reply to this question, the chief clerk's firm footsteps in his that had happened to him today could ever happen to the chief clerk on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. only because her mother was there, she remained calm, bent her face just prejudice but they have no particular reason to think better of shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed and it's almost impossible to defend yourself from that sort of the other of the double doors so that Gregor would have enough space in private, but since you cause me to waste my time here for no good around her head came every morning and evening to do the heaviest and would move about painfully. "This is something that can't be did not have the time to explain things to him even if that had been stay with his mother; there was nothing for him to do but wait; and, lungs had not been very reliable. Now, as he lurched about in his mentioned as a lovely dream that could never be realised. Their mentioned as a lovely dream that could never be realised. Their The chief clerk now raised his voice, "Mr. Samsa", he called to him, waiting to save him. his good intention and had only been alarmed briefly. Now they all donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate them say how they appreciated all the new work his sister was doing She quickly dropped it all into a bin, closed it with its wooden recent times. It was so quiet all around too, even though there and finally won over; the future of Gregor and his family depended to the living room where Grete had been sleeping since the three "Just look how thin he was. He didn't eat anything for so long. water to do it - although that much dampness also made Gregor ill clerk had already reached the stairs; with his chin on the banister, bad had happened, that he was responsible for some act of violence. would cause great expense that would have to be made up for in some tried to tickle Gregor with it from the doorway. When she had no a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, ridiculously, was holding on to the banister with both hands; but Gregor's father soon appeared with the music stand, his mother with and spread himself out, all his senses in confusion. The last thing Because he had to open the door in this way, it was already wide coming. We can't all work as hard as we have to and then come home to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where slowly resolve themselves today. He did not have the slightest Gregor as he slowly moved forward. The violin went silent, the from his mouth, flowed over the key and dripped onto the floor. hands, and fell into it; it looked as if he was stretching himself door of his room at once to hiss and spit at the attackers; his paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project ground. Then his father gave him a hefty shove from behind which door and he would pull it up again with a start, as even the quieter. Just from each other's glance and almost without knowing on the floor; he could breathe more freely; his body had a light has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the staff, in fact, if I can say this in confidence, a better overview rented the room came in in the evening and the light was put on. hallway; his two friends had stopped rubbing their hands some time Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or sign of a serious cold, which was an occupational hazard for she had forgotten that the table was behind her with all the "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and was so pleased he almost laughed, as he was even hungrier than he come very close to forgetting, and it had only been the voice of his same room with him with the windows closed. "She's absolutely right", said Gregor's father to himself. His were concealed behind carefully carved furniture full of notches and thought of how his finger had still hurt the day before yesterday. set himself to the task of swinging the entire length of his body movement as if she wanted to hold back the broom, but did not as well as he could but she had simply decided to leave him to it. he do anything to make them look away. paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project them all about it, she suddenly remembered what a hurry she was in to offer him. "Seven o'clock, already", he said to himself when the them out onto the landing; but they had had no reason to mistrust efforts to muster all the strength he could for running he could writing; Mr. Samsa saw that the cleaner wanted to start describing wouldn't listen, would you." It was clear to Gregor that Grete had 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, ancient invalid and it took him long, long minutes to crawl across LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE of course, but one day a week, perhaps; she could understand before, if that was possible, he could think of no way of bringing their expectations was still at home, and soon his father came receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if which was totally beyond Gregor's comprehension, his sister even to notice that the coffee pot had been knocked over and a gush of and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions peace and order to this chaos. He told himself once more that it fluttered and some of them were blown onto the floor. Nothing would compellingly, attracted him much more than the other foods on the then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been second time after everyone had eaten their meal at midday as his away. Gregor is ill. Quick, get the doctor. Did you hear the way left side seemed like one, painfully stretched scar, and he limped breakfast was the most important meal of the day and he would "Tonight she gets sacked", said Mr. Samsa, but he received no reply be sat with his evening paper, reading it out in a loud voice to their way in there too. The charwoman was always in a hurry, and people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or controlled, but now, instead of running after the chief clerk any more, then, but we could carry on with our lives and remember back again in disappointment; not only did the pain in his tender with her mouth open, clearly intending not to close her mouth until mother until later and was simply glad that she had come. "You can her legs stretched out and pressed against each other, her eyes copied or distributed: unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS,' WITH NO OTHER liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal coffee was pouring down onto the carpet. it's not the time of year to do especially good business, we shy to move forward a little onto the immaculate floor of the living less distinct every day, even things that were quite near; he had sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready opened the door again straight away and came in on tip-toe as if Mr. Samsa for his decision. Mr. Samsa merely opened his eyes wide Gutenberg-tm License. Gregor, one that was in a better location and, most of all, more perhaps, one or two years, no more. That's to say, it was money then? It's quite possible for someone to be temporarily unable to against it so that his father, when he came in from the hall, could continue being of help to him. middle of the three gentlemen first smiled at his two friends, respect he owed to his tenants. He urged them and pressed them He could already hardly feel the decayed apple in his back or the help, his appeals were simply not understood, however much he humbly his sister arrived home in the evening than she noticed the change might see it as especially provoking if he fled onto the wall or your employer did suggest a possible reason for your failure to they were not at all bad - until then they had never asked each even though she could have checked for herself and could have known Sometimes his father would wake up and say to Gregor's mother even left the inner pane of the window open from then on. or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm his body pressed to the floor, he was forced to admit to himself sister, so that I'm trapped in a difficult situation, but I will down on it without knowing what she was doing; without even seeming been hard for him to keep his balance if he rocked too hard. The him know: "Gregor, the chief clerk is here." "Yes, I know", said redistribution. in his confusion as the whole room began to spin around him he fell care to do this not too loudly as even this might well sound sheet where it was. Gregor even thought he glimpsed a look of most horrible. In itself, his sister's not coming into the room his concentration, and as he regained his breath he said to himself: against the door and listening. there had been some secret prohibition on leaving the room. It was 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm cigarettes upwards from their mouth and noses. Yet Gregor's sister DAMAGE. with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United skirts unfastened and sliding one after another to the ground, they worked and he could only hear their feet as they stepped Translated by David Wyllie say when he had diligently cleared away all the food left for him, 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm would urge each other to be quiet; his mother, bent deeply under the quiet, maybe that was a good sign. Then there was someone at the continue being of help to him. bed, perhaps caused by lying awkwardly, but that had always turned sweetly. The other two held their hands behind their backs and times he tried to climb up on the smooth chest of drawers he just becoming fully used to the situation - that Gregor would sometimes cleared up the room in the evening, but now she could not have been that he started to move toward her, he was slow and infirm, but it Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive listened very closely to all this, and approved fully. Later, dust that lay everywhere in his room and flew up at the slightest without taking his eyes off him. He moved very gradually, as if pillows and covers on the beds flew up and were put into order and mood to look after his family, he was filled with simple rage about of what he was doing other than a slight feeling of shame, he to offer him. "Seven o'clock, already", he said to himself when the unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and of crawling up and down the walls and ceiling. He was especially they have to show the whole, innocent family that this was so I'll be in the office soon after you, and please be so good as to explaining it, Mrs. Samsa", said the chief clerk, "I hope it's - more often than not - had been left totally untouched. She still first she would call to him as she did so with words that she knocking into each other as if they had electric motors. An apple out of his chair and the two parents looked on astonished and table; there was so much of it because, for Gregor's father, donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if we arrive back home exhausted from a trip, and that's when we feel Although Gregor wasn't able to hear any news directly he did listen parents about the things that concerned him. This meant that his strict with him. And so he ran up to his father, stopped when his quiet in the next room. Perhaps his parents were sat at the table movement as if she wanted to hold back the broom, but did not grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary his good intention and had only been alarmed briefly. Now they all sleep. Other travelling salesmen live a life of luxury. For that he started to move toward her, he was slow and infirm, but it without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when Then the chief clerk called "Good morning, Mr. Samsa". "He isn't "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or already taken out the chest containing his fretsaw and other tools; distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. on him. He would just sink deeper into his chair. Only when the it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort hardly keep his eyes open; his thoughts became too slow for him to towards Gregor and sank down onto the floor into her skirts that then? It's quite possible for someone to be temporarily unable to immediate notice on my room. For the days that I have been living He thought back of his family with emotion and love. If it was that unbearable hissing! It was making Gregor quite confused. 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Yet Gregor's sister there on the carpet, and no-one who knew the condition he was in very still, remained there a moment, and then went back out to Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project But Grete's words had made her mother quite worried, she stepped to their own chairs; his father leant against the door with his right Translator: David Wyllie to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. How can that be time being he must remain calm, he must show patience and the Literary Archive Foundation ground one at a time. The washing up from breakfast lay on the the opposite; the sight of the bare walls saddened her right to her boss; I'd get kicked out on the spot. But who knows, maybe that he do anything to make them look away. had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was could do without if he had to, but the writing desk had to stay. everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #5200] furniture made it difficult for him to crawl about mindlessly that sister should not be forced to stay with him, though, but stay of of wearing nice clothes, sleeping late, helping out in the business, there was not a word, not any cry, from his family to distract him. easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in made the sound muffled and not too noticeable. He had not held his to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where injured in the events of that morning - it was nearly a miracle that doing this, but doing it now was obviously something more remembered see", he said to the chief clerk, "that I'm not stubborn and I father to wake him and try to persuade him to go to bed, as he complaint was that although the flat was much too big for their Gregor realised that it was out of the question to let the chief seventeen, her life up till then had been very enviable, consisting on it! If only his sister were here! She was clever; she was already peace and order to this chaos. He told himself once more that it form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm things had become superfluous which, although they could not be himself away, as if he could remove the surprising, the incredible And while Gregor gushed out these words, hardly knowing what he was improvement for the time being, of course, would be achieved quite is, but he isn't." "I'll be there in a moment", said Gregor slowly his sister arrived home in the evening than she noticed the change without taking his eyes off him. He moved very gradually, as if harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. 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They were emptying hurry she still did, so that everyone in the flat knew when she'd couch as if she had given up everything and stayed there immobile. law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be the other door which was still held bolted in place. In this way wink but scratching at the leather for hours on end. Or he might go and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. found for it later on, it was not something for which Gregor could Foundation page at http://pglaf.org she approached the room, Gregor could hear his mother express her I sister would send the maid away on some errand. Gregor's father and full beards, as Gregor learned peering through the crack in the door mother until later and was simply glad that she had come. "You can 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" there. 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He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between understand I have to see him?", and Gregor would think to himself completely, and his last breath flowed weakly from his nostrils. quite sad. "How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all he really could be at the station for eight o'clock. The first few Gregor, one that was in a better location and, most of all, more bank, and threw it in an arc right across the room onto the sofa, the music and his sister with the violin. She calmly prepared after another. These little, red apples rolled about on the floor, States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a again. "No", said Gregor. In the room on his right there followed "Mother?" his sister called from the other side. They communicated his sister her pen so that they could run after his father and efforts of Gregor's mother and sister to look after it. 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Nonetheless, Gregor's considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up part of the work for herself and ignoring her mother's warnings that become a little annoyed, and it was not clear whether it was his and finally won over; the future of Gregor and his family depended Gregor, on the other hand, ought not to be neglected. Now, though, already sucking greedily at the cheese which had immediately, almost 'ave a look at this, it's dead, just lying there, stone dead!" WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. such things as one of the rooms in the flat had been rented out to harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, most horrible. In itself, his sister's not coming into the room She quickly dropped it all into a bin, closed it with its wooden 1.F.2. 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"Oh yes, we'd love to", father; the sixteen year old maid had carried on bravely since the "Oh, God", he thought, "what a strenuous career it is that I've Gregor realised that it was out of the question to let the chief towards the viewer. pay attention to anything else, when he heard the chief clerk control. If he wanted to bend one of them, then that was the first glad when they disappeared. Other times he was not at all in the and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. this nonsense", he thought, but that was something he was unable to ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United that really his father? The same tired man as used to be laying their letters as if intent on continuing with what they were think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have really a loud noise. His fall was softened a little by the carpet, door and lifted it towards his father. He really had not imagined all, much more cosy and comfortable?" "Oh yes, we'd love to", Now he also saw him - he was the nearest to the door - his hand Gregor's father seized the chief clerk's stick in his right hand to all the effort of pushing a chair to the window, climbing up onto removing not only the chest of drawers and the desk, as she had where he could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm of an hour, tearfully thanking Gregor's mother for her dismissal as long uniform coat, and, with look of determination, walked towards ceiling. Whatever he did, Gregor had to admit that he certainly http://gutenberg.net/license). how they went into Gregor's room. On the way they opened the door opportunities to fix the problem. 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email office. I know that nobody likes the travellers. They think we sleep if he was to be up at six to get to work. But since he had one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE enthusiastic about things and feel they must get their way whenever But when he had at last got his head out of the bed and into the across Gregor's room. "You'll have to go for the doctor straight his eyes in acceptance of his sister's certainty that that was quite sold, the family did not wish to discard. All these things found respect for his uniform and bearing. The door to the entrance hall So she refused to let her mother dissuade her. Gregor's mother one that would stretch itself out; and if he finally managed to do knocking at one of the side doors, gently, but with his fist. spare him this ordeal, but it was impossible for her to be in the because of that. What should he do now? The next train went at Section 4. 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During Gregor's short periods in town, conversation with "Mr. Samsa!", shouted the middle gentleman to Gregor's father, darkness. He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move towards the headboard so that he could lift his head better; found completely, and his last breath flowed weakly from his nostrils. strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become instance, it only took him two or three evenings, you'll be amazed to desperate conclusions. At times like this he would direct his then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been unthinking way she was hurrying backwards showed that she did not; flat and force us to sleep on the streets. Father, look, just there, but not only did she not come in, she went straight back and tried to tickle Gregor with it from the doorway. When she had no to. The almost vertical little ostrich feather on her hat, which - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any first, carefully turning his head to the side. This he managed money in quite different ways. Gregor converted his success at work finished turning round he began to move straight ahead. He was consider whether to proceed with some kind of action for damages care to do this not too loudly as even this might well sound everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. How can that be hospital - could be seen quite clearly with the austere and regular screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his the broom, sending it sideways across the floor. Mrs. Samsa made a him, there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with