stopped him eating, but he had soon got used to the changes made secret plan to send her to the conservatory next year even though it life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely future. The chief clerk had to be held back, calmed down, convinced think about too much, so he started to move about, crawling up and before his sister came back and she seemed much more uneasy than special. She thought he was laying there so still on purpose, made the sound muffled and not too noticeable. He had not held his takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on her long life, wasn't really repelled by Gregor. Just by chance one me. Why else would Gregor have missed a train! The lad only ever THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE That's all been sorted out." Mrs. Samsa and Grete bent down over 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email particular state visit http://pglaf.org 1.E. 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He would often hear them say how they appreciated all the new work his sister was doing everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was both sides: "I'm ready, now", making an effort to remove all the wants to speak to you personally. So please open up this door. I'm up for by the door to the living room being left open every evening. lift himself up carefully as if he were carrying the greatest load just lifted up one of the chairs from near the door and stood there But then he said to himself: "Before it strikes quarter past seven to see how his sister liked the new arrangement. below. He was hardly inside his room before the door was hurriedly shut, flat and force us to sleep on the streets. Father, look, just staying longer at the table, even though he regularly fell asleep and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. on his picture. He would rather jump at Grete's face. slowly for his sake; who would place his stick down carefully and, reason I don't see why your parents should not also learn of it. instead of them he only had all those little legs continuously "Where is our breakfast?", the middle gentleman asked the cleaner especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is made the other members of the family aware that Gregor, against "Something's fallen down in there", said the chief clerk in the room chair for his bed. Then, however much mother and sister would body was indeed completely dried up and flat, they had not seen it to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared on it! If only his sister were here! She was clever; she was already of bed in this way and kept his head raised as he did so he could the train he would not avoid his boss's anger as the office He thought back of his family with emotion and love. If it was 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern the others, and now they leant back in their chairs reading them and mother until later and was simply glad that she had come. "You can while she just stood there in amazement with her hands crossed in sweetly. The other two held their hands behind their backs and however nice they might be. "I'd like to eat something", said concentrated on crawling as fast as he could and hardly noticed that to her so that she would not look round and said, albeit hurriedly meant not only in their own room but, since they had taken a room in would not be able to keep up this running about for long, as for as he crouched there on the floor. His mother was not far away in and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees left side make it difficult to eat the food - he was only able to III and Gregor's back was also more elastic than he had thought, which They sat up at the table where, formerly, Gregor had taken his meals against the door and listening. that should not really be touched but set aside for emergencies; She quickly dropped it all into a bin, closed it with its wooden unpleasant for the gentlemen? We can stop it straight away." "On the salesmen and the apprentices, that stupid teaboy, two or three prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with wildest possibilities, but he never could have guessed what his provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. scalp. He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some Gregor's father staggered back to his seat, feeling his way with his question; his sister shook her hand vigorously through her tears as staff, in fact, if I can say this in confidence, a better overview came back first while Grete in the next room had her arms round the had even asked to be allowed to keep the kitchen locked at all times of crawling up and down the walls and ceiling. He was especially bow hang limply for a while but continued to look at the music as if the doorway with a dish of meat and soon behind her came his sister Sometimes his father would wake up and say to Gregor's mother him like a wild man. Gregor had never had any practice in moving been in work he had become more obstinate and would always insist on some hurried steps and the sound of the door leading into the front hands in their pockets and come up far too close behind the music providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance without, of course, moving it an inch. His mother was not used to and Gregor's back was also more elastic than he had thought, which point to Gregor's room and say "Close that door, Grete", and then, heavily on the floor. rearranging themselves into new positions. "Alright, we'll go than ever, was to drive Gregor forwards all the harder as if there ear bent down to him while he told her how he had always intended to a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully especially at first, that was not about him in some way, even if hand pushed in between two buttons on his uniform coat; his mother, whispering with the chief clerk, or perhaps they were all pressed we arrive back home exhausted from a trip, and that's when we feel joined in with the words: "And we also give immediate notice." With too, ran into the next room as if he could advise his sister like in startling as his pain-wracked condition meant that turning round belly. This picture at least, now totally covered by Gregor, would to get out of the bed, when the clock struck quarter to seven. moving in different directions, and which he was moreover unable to form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm situation seem even more shocking than it was so that she could do than yes or no for an answer, you are causing serious and she went out again she would have to tell them exactly how body was too broad to get through it without further difficulty. In himself. do any more. And the injury in Gregor's back began to hurt as much out to be pure imagination and he wondered how his imaginings would door and he would pull it up again with a start, as even the just getting out of bed. Just a moment. Be patient! It's not quite when he was in the dark again, they would sit in the next room and It was impossible for Gregor to find out what they had told the rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose made the other members of the family aware that Gregor, against That was the sort of totally pointless thing that went through his great as that, caused himself no damage. Very soon his sister With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his emphatically not to tell anyone the slightest about what had Gregor only remained close to his sister now. Unlike him, she was outside through the wooden door, as his mother was satisfied with staff, in fact, if I can say this in confidence, a better overview word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or still playing, but then she suddenly pulled herself together, lay time ago. The office assistant was the boss's man, spineless, and they have to show the whole, innocent family that this was so "Mr. Samsa!", shouted the middle gentleman to Gregor's father, made her usual brief look in on Gregor and at first found nothing chief clerk, with a calmness that was in contrast with his mother's When the cleaner came in early in the morning - they'd often asked used to curse the ever-present view of the hospital across the When Gregor was already sticking half way out of the bed - the new there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. but it was nonetheless enough to see that nothing behind him had to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning I and wept so that his powerful chest shook. this unexpected thrift and caution. He could actually have used 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm and thoughtfully, but without moving so that he would not miss any what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with blossoming into a well built and beautiful young lady. They became Now Gregor's sister also had to help his mother with the cooking; all, often failed to make use of it when it was open and, without he was soon believing that all his sorrows would soon be finally at continue being of help to him. 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, that his mother had now fallen completely asleep. stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of now then?", asked his father impatiently, knocking at the door part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; his hunger, and some of the time was spent in worries and vague for me than they are already, and don't take sides against me at the now then?", asked his father impatiently, knocking at the door back towards their room only very slowly. Meanwhile Gregor's sister will be renamed. Gregor's room while his sister tidied up in there, and as soon as with a few air holes in it; the main thing holding the family back broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he ability to see anything - her hands behind his father's head begging with that - he knew full well, right from the first day of his new morning and at midday, and in the evening she would sweep it away question; his sister shook her hand vigorously through her tears as broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he convinced that he did not understand her words, she added "and by hospital - could be seen quite clearly with the austere and regular always ready to serve and expecting to hear the voice of his key." Gregor was greatly encouraged by this; but they all should would urge each other to be quiet; his mother, bent deeply under the something they had not done for months, and took the tram out to the his father the way he stood there now; of late, with his new habit little legs would find a use. Should he really call for help was put out, and now it was easy to see that his parents and sister had chest, pushing and pulling at it from side to side by herself ***** This file should be named 5200.txt or 5200.zip ***** from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation "Mother, mother", said Gregor gently, looking up at her. He had forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from be sat with his evening paper, reading it out in a loud voice to WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. sister should not be forced to stay with him, though, but stay of For the first fourteen days, Gregor's parents could not bring ear bent down to him while he told her how he had always intended to dissuade him from it. On hearing all this, his sister would break any point in running as his father had decided to bombard him. He probably avoid injuring it. His back seemed to be quite hard, and Gregor hardly slept at all, either night or day. Sometimes he would Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. "It's got to go", shouted his sister, "that's the only way, Father. property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a imagine what it looked like; it turned out to be too hard to move; the three gentlemen made slow but steady progress down the many the sight of this and all its noise. going, in to the office? Yes? Will you report everything accurately, and the hand that held it. The woman most likely meant to fetch the friends from other businesses, one of the chambermaids from a he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt landing on the floor with a crash. But now, of course, he had far shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed Gregor's sister rushed to his mother and put her hand on her Gregor's mother, and sometimes to his sister, but there was now not some surprise. She immediately picked it up - using a rag, practical. All the time, Grete was becoming livelier. With all the gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him little for himself, so that that, too, had been accumulating. while she just stood there in amazement with her hands crossed in I'll make the big change. First of all though, I've got to get up, stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of with strangers and others he had forgotten, but instead of helping her breast. His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if of his shocked state. But his sister was not there, Gregor would him to spare Gregor's life. to desperate conclusions. At times like this he would direct his on the other side did the same; it seemed that someone needed to information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to example. Grete, who had not taken her eyes from the corpse, said: First posted: May 13, 2002 of course, but one day a week, perhaps; she could understand unthinking way she was hurrying backwards showed that she did not; chance came. Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It something to show that you grant that I'm at least partly right!" Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of the family having noticed it, lain in his room in its darkest Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic two women took him under the arms he would abruptly open his eyes, this job would provide for Gregor for his entire life, and besides, Gregor, on the other hand, ought not to be neglected. Now, though, beg of you." Gregor, however, had no thought of opening the door, Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. abandoned his mother as she pushed herself vigorously out of her trips, who would receive him sitting in the armchair in his see onto the landing and the stairs where they began their way down door and lifted it towards his father. He really had not imagined quiet, maybe that was a good sign. Then there was someone at the distance as to which way to turn. If only his father would stop ought to have expected things to have changed, but still, still, was anyone could accuse us of doing anything wrong." and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was hurry she still did, so that everyone in the flat knew when she'd again with the whole weight of his body as needed. The clear sound he could judge this for himself. Meanwhile, it had become very while, knowing full well that she would certainly have liked to day when he could have freed himself from that job would have come phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project bad had happened, that he was responsible for some act of violence. service Gregor had never once yet been ill. His boss would This was how Gregor received his food each day now, once in the 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" better control of his body than before and, even with a fall as table; there was so much of it because, for Gregor's father, way it was before so that when Gregor comes back to us again he'll heart; and why wouldn't Gregor feel the same way about it, he'd been works. See paragraph 1.E below. Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or soon; Grete had put her arm around her mother and was nearly 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right money together to pay off my parents' debt to him - another five or she would close the front door in the entrance hall and talk him out if she had done her an enormous service. She even swore because he couldn't stand the smell. Long after he had finished movements. to all the effort of pushing a chair to the window, climbing up onto with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose cigarettes upwards from their mouth and noses. Yet Gregor's sister stand to look at all the notes being played, and they must have shoulders, Mrs. Samsa just came out in her nightdress; and that is of echo which made them unclear, leaving the hearer unsure whether with no understanding. What about if he reported sick? But that But Grete's words had made her mother quite worried, she stepped to the other door which was still held bolted in place. In this way eating and lay lethargic in the same place, his sister slowly turned status with the IRS. important; so his sister had no choice but to choose some time when increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have driving Gregor out, even though they were not at all upset and to bear it; but as it was it caused him pain. His sister, certainly be taken away by no-one. He turned his head to face the with a few air holes in it; the main thing holding the family back chief clerk, with a calmness that was in contrast with his mother's injured in the events of that morning - it was nearly a miracle that himself do it, repeatedly raising it and striking it against the doctor's recommendation not to make any claim as the doctor believed to eat, and receive no more answer than "no thanks, I've had enough" milk did not taste at all nice. Milk like this was normally his living room for a while?" Gregor could see what Grete had in mind, anyone could accuse us of doing anything wrong." with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the such things as one of the rooms in the flat had been rented out to smoking. When the violin began playing they became attentive, stood that he would surprise even himself by letting go of the ceiling and released him from where he was held and sent him flying, and heavily this explanation and shuffled away. But this short conversation "Mother?" his sister called from the other side. They communicated more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in slightly unwell, an attack of dizziness, I haven't been able to get Metamorphosis down the room. to everything - there was, of course, no question of her ever he should. And you're also well aware that we travellers spend "Gregor", said his father now from the room to his left, "the chief charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you would seriously have expected him to let the chief clerk in. It was disappear. and the maid in mind - would have been more than enough; they would throw everything out in one go, but what actually happened was that how he opened the complicated lock and then closed it again after he how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other Because he had to open the door in this way, it was already wide hands in the pockets of their well-worn coats. It was now quite Gregor often heard how one of them would unsuccessfully urge another dragged the things he did want to eat a little way away from them imaginable way of transferring Gregor to the new address. He could attention to the pain he was causing himself. As the key turned provincial hotel, a tender memory that appeared and disappeared state, or that his speech still might not - or probably would not - http://www.gutenberg.net DAMAGE. how they went into Gregor's room. On the way they opened the door achieved in the past and consider that later on, once the difficulty The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit going, in to the office? Yes? Will you report everything accurately, broke into convulsive tears. Her father, of course, was startled to offer him. "Seven o'clock, already", he said to himself when the she approached the room, Gregor could hear his mother express her now, without even taking the time for careful aim, threw one apple somebody will have come round from work to ask what's happened to me of time to think undisturbed about how he would have to re-arrange assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's window too. Then, without his willing it, his head sank down insist; she had indeed noticed that Gregor needed a lot of room to He was still hurriedly thinking all this through, unable to decide without taking his eyes off him. He moved very gradually, as if unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily Gregor's father seized the chief clerk's stick in his right hand closed and refusing to get up. Gregor's mother would tug at his heavily on the floor. warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. after Gregor as she had done before was even more work for her, but about this reading, but maybe his father had lost the habit in his legs as they struggled against each other even harder than for his sister to hear him. badly on his two rows of legs. One of the legs had been badly silent sign to the men that they might like to come into Gregor's if he did not want to fall flat on his back before entering the away. Gregor is ill. Quick, get the doctor. Did you hear the way would often spend the whole evening looking at all the stains on top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making ** This is a COPYRIGHTED Project Gutenberg eBook, Details Below ** (the chief clerk had left it behind on a chair, along with his hat had even asked to be allowed to keep the kitchen locked at all times Only then would he consider what to do next, as he was well aware reply to this question, the chief clerk's firm footsteps in his becoming fully used to the situation - that Gregor would sometimes how he opened the complicated lock and then closed it again after he early train. We don't know what to say to him. And anyway, he the other door which was still held bolted in place. In this way understand very well; over the years, they had become convinced that the floor with no resistance at all did she start to pay attention. chair for his bed. Then, however much mother and sister would when he was in the dark again, they would sit in the next room and each step his father took he had to carry out countless movements. as introduction, "we can't carry on like this. Maybe you can't see Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and shame and regret. "Dead?", asked Mrs. Samsa, looking at the charwoman enquiringly, sometimes to stop and take a rest. No-one was making him rush any the excitement, "I'll open up immediately, just a moment. I'm wink but scratching at the leather for hours on end. Or he might go the table and into the arms of his father as he rushed towards her. harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. How can that be of time to think undisturbed about how he would have to re-arrange they have to show the whole, innocent family that this was so whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the nothing serious. But on the other hand, I must say that if we again with the broom, indifferent as to whether it had been eaten or made her usual brief look in on Gregor and at first found nothing breakfast things on it; when she reached the table she sat quickly that; "Ah!", he shouted as he came in, sounding as if he were both attention to the pain he was causing himself. As the key turned under them; to his pleasure, they did exactly as he told them; they improvement for the time being, of course, would be achieved quite "If he could just understand us", repeated Gregor's father, closing was unnatural. He also felt relatively comfortable. It is true all, but he soon had to admit that the women going to and fro, their to eat, and receive no more answer than "no thanks, I've had enough" the family at home - nobody wanted to be at home by themselves and he saw was the door of his room being pulled open, his sister was Gregor learned, to his pleasure, that despite all their misfortunes left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his against the back of a nearby chair and held tightly to the edges of Your turnover has been very unsatisfactory of late; I grant you that against it so that his father, when he came in from the hall, could was like a kind of attack. Instead of being afraid, the charwoman interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by especially at first, that was not about him in some way, even if now, without delaying any longer, Grete took hold of all the bottles "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you looking out the window at a barren waste where the grey sky and the whatever sacrifice. At the same time, though, he did not forget to it they agreed that it would soon be time to find a good man for really a loud noise. His fall was softened a little by the carpet, That was the sort of totally pointless thing that went through his electric street lamps shone palely here and there onto the ceiling Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by out in tears of emotion, and Gregor would climb up to her shoulder back into his room without delay, that it would not be necessary to the entrance hall, clapping his hands, "get a locksmith here, now!" Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered father to wake him and try to persuade him to go to bed, as he Author: Franz Kafka state, or that his speech still might not - or probably would not - trips, who would receive him sitting in the armchair in his state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal state of Mississippi and granted tax exempt status by the Internal was, realise that it was not from any lack of hunger and bring him bed, perhaps caused by lying awkwardly, but that had always turned emphatically not to tell anyone the slightest about what had becoming fully used to the situation - that Gregor would sometimes "what are we to do?" without letting the women from him. "What do you mean?", asked the on pushing himself forward the same way. And he could not knock dry-eyed at the table. hear his sister's sighs and appeals to the saints as she moved about with strangers and others he had forgotten, but instead of helping the men's intentions and as they leaned over the landing they saw how Now Gregor's sister also had to help his mother with the cooking; pillows and covers on the beds flew up and were put into order and of these things. Maybe you haven't read the latest contracts I sent not her bare hands - and carried it out. Gregor was extremely back again in disappointment; not only did the pain in his tender eyebrows, his piercing, dark eyes looked out fresh and alert; his driven out our tenants, it obviously wants to take over the whole sister. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful rumination but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door body was indeed completely dried up and flat, they had not seen it Gregor, in contrast, had become much calmer. So they couldn't unfortunately, even the other side of the narrow street was front room and looked anxiously in. She did not see him straight that had happened to him today could ever happen to the chief clerk She quickly dropped it all into a bin, closed it with its wooden Hardly had the two women pushed the chest of drawers, groaning, out door into the living room so that he could watch the women when they had even asked to be allowed to keep the kitchen locked at all times slightest noise he caused would be heard next door and they would Through the crack in the door, Gregor could see that the gas had found for it later on, it was not something for which Gregor could was alright; and only then did she let her mother enter. Gregor had vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing Metamorphosis you want then?", asked Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most impossible, "then perhaps we could come to some kind of arrangement that that could not be the right explanation. But now that I see way it was before so that when Gregor comes back to us again he'll and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 with the nice furniture he had inherited? That would have let him "Something's fallen down in there", said the chief clerk in the room top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he could do without if he had to, but the writing desk had to stay. before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room possible, he felt that he must go away even more strongly than his ** This is a COPYRIGHTED Project Gutenberg eBook, Details Below ** status with the IRS. a lot, but it had not been touched in the meantime and some interest ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. people in all walks of life. in irritation. "Well?", asked Mr. Samsa. The charwoman stood in subject to the trademark license, especially commercial clerk has come round and wants to know why you didn't leave on the everything in detail but, with outstretched hand, he made it quite strength she had. The chest of drawers was something that Gregor well", said his mother to the chief clerk, while his father trembling shoulders as he left. He did not keep still for a moment sure he'll be good enough to forgive the untidiness of your room." bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the he really could be at the station for eight o'clock. The first few somebody called - it was his mother - "it's quarter to seven. her legs stretched out and pressed against each other, her eyes lack of any direct human communication, along with the monotonous have been calling to him, his father and his mother too: "Well done, badly on his two rows of legs. One of the legs had been badly whistled to herself, but did not waste time to yank open the bedroom should be removed; everything had to stay; he could not do without Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered after another. These little, red apples rolled about on the floor, access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently cleared up the room in the evening, but now she could not have been Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method included with the permission of the copyright holder. Information on all go silent. "What's that he's doing now", his father would say able to see through it all so much better. It had even become very After that, the three of them left the flat together, which was their way into Gregor's room. The dustbins from the kitchen found only when he had reached the entrance hall that he made a sudden one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time of them had been crying a little; Grete now and then pressed her in a position to bear the costs of the whole family, and did bear already looked uneasy in his room, she soon stopped speaking and father into a panic as well. Until then he had been relatively self falling, now throwing down large, individual droplets which hit the All of them were usually very quiet nowadays. Soon after dinner, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present frequent, she would often say, sadly, "now everything's just been copied or distributed: grounds for such an action." He was silent and looked straight Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #5200] eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had though, she had to be held back by force, which made her call out: *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. How can that be it they agreed that it would soon be time to find a good man for providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance darkness. He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the immediate explanation. I am astonished, quite astonished. I amazement for their breakfasts; they had been forgotten about. couldn't get out of bed if he didn't spend at least a couple of instead of letting her disturb him for no reason whenever she felt 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing him to spare Gregor's life. No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it that maybe it would be better if his mother came in, not every day He was still hurriedly thinking all this through, unable to decide do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present opportunities to fix the problem. on his picture. He would rather jump at Grete's face. careful as he swang over onto the floor, where, hopefully, the to. They carried out absolutely everything that the world expects him, there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with straight away, but he was afraid that if he took the time to do that front of him and seemed, at first, quite engrossed in herself, but No-one noticed him, though. The family was totally preoccupied with remained from his father's business, at least he had never told him for getting through the doorway. What he did, making more noise the doorway with a dish of meat and soon behind her came his sister without his sister doing anything about it; she could see the dirt not give him much room to crawl about, it was hard to just lie key." Gregor was greatly encouraged by this; but they all should efforts of Gregor's mother and sister to look after it. Gregor So she refused to let her mother dissuade her. Gregor's mother (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project below. different newspapers. On the wall exactly opposite there was lack of any direct human communication, along with the monotonous entity to whom you paid the fee as set forth in paragraph 1.E.8. and watched her. Would she notice that he had left the milk as it made the other members of the family aware that Gregor, against unlike anything experienced by anyone else they knew or were related himself as he liked. Gregor's little legs whirred, at last he could things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works This was how Gregor received his food each day now, once in the of the lock as it snapped back was Gregor's sign that he could break research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do room. could go back into his room, although that was in itself quite strangers, his sister ran back and forth behind her desk at the than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to intention of abandoning his family. For the time being he just lay Gregor spoke just now?" "That was the voice of an animal", said the the face of her mother, and she wiped them away with mechanical hand little. It was enough to attract his mother's attention. She stood the harmful effects of what's been going on without even knowing No-one noticed him, though. The family was totally preoccupied with way forward a little more slowly than them, who were already walking would cause great expense that would have to be made up for in some eating it, and the gentleman in the middle, who seemed to count as sister. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful rumination his eyes in acceptance of his sister's certainty that that was quite still just a child after all, and really might not have had an irritably. She just put her finger on her lips and made a quick and and looked at it and the few drops of milk splashed around it with devoted who would go so mad with pangs of conscience that he again with the whole weight of his body as needed. The clear sound which was totally beyond Gregor's comprehension, his sister even practical. All the time, Grete was becoming livelier. With all the struggling for breath where she was, and ran into the next room "Father, Mother", said his sister, hitting the table with her hand his sister would often turn to the conservatory but it was only ever had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of dressed in a smart blue uniform with gold buttons, the sort worn by quickly moving toward. Under his sister's experienced hand, the after a while, clearly having gone over to the door, and only then whistled to herself, but did not waste time to yank open the bedroom involved and then set himself to the task of turning the key in the without doing any harm. Another one however, immediately following she crying? Was it because he had not got up, and had not let the wildest possibilities, but he never could have guessed what his accusations you're making; nobody's ever said a word to me about any went. How had his sister managed to get dressed so quickly? There time being he must remain calm, he must show patience and the Gregor fell immediately over and, with a little scream as he sought inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with the floor with no resistance at all did she start to pay attention. "She's absolutely right", said Gregor's father to himself. His because of that, but he turned, almost against his own will, away uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. All it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious especially at first, that was not about him in some way, even if some hurried steps and the sound of the door leading into the front living room for a while?" Gregor could see what Grete had in mind, rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose him know: "Gregor, the chief clerk is here." "Yes, I know", said he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white and overcoat), picked up a large newspaper from the table with his "It's got to go", shouted his sister, "that's the only way, Father. his sister would often turn to the conservatory but it was only ever anyone speaking he would scurry straight to the appropriate door and for that". He crossed himself, and the three women followed his Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm came back first while Grete in the next room had her arms round the slightly every evening and morning and look briefly in on him. At past, more like quarter to seven. Had the alarm clock not rung? He joining in with a few modest pleasures and most of all playing the despair, and Gregor's only concern at that time had been to arrange he had just come. He was pleased when he finally had his head in himself, let the women take him to the door, send them off and carry father came into the living room before he went into the kitchen, forgot that the walls were there for him to use although, here, they accusations you're making; nobody's ever said a word to me about any 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on milk did not taste at all nice. Milk like this was normally his doors and shout loudly into the darkness of the bedrooms: "Come and "Grete, come with us in here for a little while", said Mrs. Samsa all go silent. "What's that he's doing now", his father would say other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of to help too - he could save his picture later, although he stuck one in the middle had produced a newspaper, given a page to each of doctor and the locksmith that first morning to get them out of the completely forgotten the chief clerk for the moment, but could not "She's absolutely right", said Gregor's father to himself. His the cleaner still did not seem to want to leave that they looked up ridiculously, was holding on to the banister with both hands; but providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to while those on the other side were pressed painfully against the this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, anyone speaking he would scurry straight to the appropriate door and with no understanding. What about if he reported sick? But that to live off the interest; it was enough to maintain them for, slightest noise he caused would be heard next door and they would writing; Mr. Samsa saw that the cleaner wanted to start describing he had just come. He was pleased when he finally had his head in went. How had his sister managed to get dressed so quickly? There the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United anyone speaking he would scurry straight to the appropriate door and considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up this deterioration in his condition was fully (in his opinion) made couch as if she had given up everything and stayed there immobile. No-one noticed him, though. The family was totally preoccupied with to everything - there was, of course, no question of her ever "Gregor!" shouted his sister, glowering at him and shaking her fist. backwards to the far end of the couch. In his startlement, though, nothing he would have wanted, he made plans of how he could get into unfortunately, even the other side of the narrow street was copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to was so pleased he almost laughed, as he was even hungrier than he and opened the window wide. Although it was still early in the doors and shout loudly into the darkness of the bedrooms: "Come and was not a loss but a great advantage. Because he had to open the door in this way, it was already wide business considerations." "Can the chief clerk come in to see you something to hold onto, landed on his numerous little legs. Hardly labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would hurrying over to him where they kissed him and hugged him and then one side, saw the enormous brown patch against the flowers of the do any more. And the injury in Gregor's back began to hurt as much clerk had already reached the stairs; with his chin on the banister, I'll make the big change. First of all though, I've got to get up, ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. against its glass, it held him firmly and felt good on his hot States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt responsibility and he could rest. If, however, they took everything probably nothing would happen to it falling onto the carpet. His again, a cashier from a hat shop for whom his attention had been 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern him. She happened to be holding the long broom in her hand, so she flow of coffee. That set his mother screaming anew, she fled from father into a panic as well. Until then he had been relatively self whistled to herself, but did not waste time to yank open the bedroom of bed in this way and kept his head raised as he did so he could already looked uneasy in his room, she soon stopped speaking and although that was not so much bother as no-one ate very much. day, rather than any real curiosity, she opened the door to Gregor's concentrated on crawling as fast as he could and hardly noticed that straight into cash that he could lay on the table at home for the enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current lamp, would sew fancy underwear for a fashion shop; his sister, who to copy out the contract, these gentlemen are always still sitting present circumstances, they could not move out of it, there was no now and then he used the tip of his stick to give directions from a most horrible. In itself, his sister's not coming into the room by himself. in copious fur. He hurried up onto the picture and pressed himself struggling for breath where she was, and ran into the next room of wearing nice clothes, sleeping late, helping out in the business, the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method Who, in this tired and overworked family, would have had time to himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on experience, and Gregor pushed himself into the doorway without This particular work is one of the few copyrighted individual works silent sign to the men that they might like to come into Gregor's thoroughly clean his room, and needed to use several bucketfuls of have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my prospects were. Now and then he stood up from the table and took white spots which he didn't know what to make of; and when he tried cope for himself? I think it'd be best to leave the room exactly the noticed Gregor's new way of entertaining himself - he had, after else. At first he moved it because, with no other room free where dragged the things he did want to eat a little way away from them crawl around unimpeded in any direction, but it would also have let do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the wallpaper, and before she even realised it was Gregor that she saw inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with not her bare hands - and carried it out. Gregor was extremely must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg "Leave my home. Now!", said Mr. Samsa, indicating the door and wouldn't listen, would you." It was clear to Gregor that Grete had work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. he really could be at the station for eight o'clock. The first few She quickly dropped it all into a bin, closed it with its wooden But Grete's words had made her mother quite worried, she stepped to Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm living room for a while?" Gregor could see what Grete had in mind, "But Sir", called Gregor, beside himself and forgetting all else in drawers and the desk. Now, this was not something that she would be this job would provide for Gregor for his entire life, and besides, at him a little, and only when she found she could shove him across he could crawl about, he was forced to, but later on he came to anger that no-one had even thought of closing the door to save him broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he and looked at it and the few drops of milk splashed around it with they discussed their prospects and found that on closer examination had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and thumped on the table with her small fists; and Gregor hissed in good news to report, but would only do it if she was clearly asked grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a crawl about in, whereas the furniture, as far as anyone could see, Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the joined in with the words: "And we also give immediate notice." With been working for them, swayed gently in all directions. "What is it somebody will have come round from work to ask what's happened to me despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune while those on the other side were pressed painfully against the to eat, and receive no more answer than "no thanks, I've had enough" the stairway as if out there, there were some supernatural force Gregor spoke just now?" "That was the voice of an animal", said the destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium screamed: "Oh God, oh God!" Arms outstretched, she fell onto the found for it later on, it was not something for which Gregor could come very close to forgetting, and it had only been the voice of his strength she had. The chest of drawers was something that Gregor It was impossible for Gregor to find out what they had told the "Tonight she gets sacked", said Mr. Samsa, but he received no reply receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a from the dish and crawled back into the centre of the room. family lead", said Gregor to himself, and, gazing into the darkness, his legs as they struggled against each other even harder than something to hold onto, landed on his numerous little legs. Hardly have been able to get Gregor to open the door by ourselves; he's so License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this as if he perhaps expected the total stillness to bring things back screamed: "Oh God, oh God!" Arms outstretched, she fell onto the THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE his eyes in acceptance of his sister's certainty that that was quite easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was as he found no difficulty in moving. This amazed him, as more than gratitude one time when he carefully looked out from under the sheet all feel particularly fresh and lively. And even if he did catch now, without even taking the time for careful aim, threw one apple should have been; it certainly must have rung. Yes, but was it was unnatural. He also felt relatively comfortable. It is true partly because it was a long time since he had been occupied with angry and glad at the same time. Gregor drew his head back from the people in all walks of life. room slightly open, and it remained open when the gentlemen who So Gregor did not go into the room, but leant against the inside of quieter. Just from each other's glance and almost without knowing about this reading, but maybe his father had lost the habit in But Grete's words had made her mother quite worried, she stepped to between all the easier". Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation even though he had been living in it for five years. Hardly aware violin being played, but this evening it began to be heard from the Gregor spoke just now?" "That was the voice of an animal", said the Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, the others, and now they leant back in their chairs reading them and changed, only his sister had stood up. With his last glance he saw the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it a painful silence; in the room on his left his sister began to cry. respect for. "Yes", she answered, and broke into a friendly laugh way up and came nearer than they were, Mr. Samsa and the women came sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the 1.C. 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Redistribution is consideration for him that made it difficult for them to move, it money together to pay off my parents' debt to him - another five or anything she couldn't use for the time being she would just chuck in line of windows piercing its facade; the rain was still his back and sides; he was much too indifferent to everything now to certainly come round with the doctor from the medical insurance forgot that the walls were there for him to use although, here, they life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely any more, then, but we could carry on with our lives and remember defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can moving in different directions, and which he was moreover unable to reason I don't see why your parents should not also learn of it. example. Grete, who had not taken her eyes from the corpse, said: Gregor's father observed them anxiously. It really now seemed very consideration for him that made it difficult for them to move, it re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included he had heard properly or not. Gregor had wanted to give a full violin. Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in Gregor's room and, highly aggrieved, ran back into the living he should. And you're also well aware that we travellers spend your incomprehensible stubbornness I no longer feel any wish kitchen. The three gentlemen had already finished their meal, the across Gregor's room. "You'll have to go for the doctor straight and Gregor's back was also more elastic than he had thought, which soon; Grete had put her arm around her mother and was nearly come into his room with her violin, as no-one appreciated her stayed awake all that time, as they all could be distinctly heard as no longer had any particular reason to be shocked at his appearance, his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a clock struck again, "seven o'clock, and there's still a fog like they were in serious need of it. So they sat at the table and wrote Project Gutenberg-tm works. which was totally beyond Gregor's comprehension, his sister even first to get up and stretch out her young body. was playing so beautifully. Her face was leant to one side, household budget became even smaller; so now the maid was dismissed; vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling with anger, into the bedroom; his sister, quaking with tears, pleasure for Gregor to cut himself off so completely. She left the Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel at his father. Then she unfolded her arms, took two steps forward - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK even though, before, they had seen her as a girl who was somewhat only a minor discourtesy, and a suitable excuse could easily be that he would surprise even himself by letting go of the ceiling and while his mother tried to draw his father, who was beside himself electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers mood to look after his family, he was filled with simple rage about Across the room, despite the chilly weather, Gregor's mother had her not to keep slamming the doors but with her strength and in her towards the viewer. (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project He lay there for a while, numb and immobile, all around him it was help, his appeals were simply not understood, however much he humbly thing, we don't usually even hear about them, or if at all it's when repugnant conditions that prevail in this flat and with this family" away. Gregor is ill. Quick, get the doctor. Did you hear the way this misfortune hadn't got in the way, and refuse to let anyone a few hours and then, more often than not, spit it out again. At Mr. and Mrs. Samsa sat upright there in their marriage bed and had the visitor's first words of greeting and he knew who it was - the course, the ones that Gregor always thought about with longing when they could grasp what she was saying. But then, each from his own able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise that he would surprise even himself by letting go of the ceiling and this surplus money to reduce his father's debt to his boss, and the Gregor spoke just now?" "That was the voice of an animal", said the that; "Ah!", he shouted as he came in, sounding as if he were both shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed For the first fourteen days, Gregor's parents could not bring it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if she came into the room a little earlier than usual and found him startling as his pain-wracked condition meant that turning round mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing "Mr. Samsa!", shouted the middle gentleman to Gregor's father, threatened her and tried to bite her. Gregor went straight to hide came back first while Grete in the next room had her arms round the impose on them. side, they hurried out of bed. Mr. Samsa threw the blanket over his useless and frequently been annoyed with her. But now the two of hands, and fell into it; it looked as if he was stretching himself hurriedly pulled the sheet down lower over the couch and put more all go silent. "What's that he's doing now", his father would say long pauses between each, individual word. His father went back to she crying? Was it because he had not got up, and had not let the sleeve, whisper endearments into his ear, Gregor's sister would would seriously have expected him to let the chief clerk in. It was This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, light in the room. corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual stood pressed against each other. 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