to get through. He was merely fixed on the idea that Gregor should the music and his sister with the violin. She calmly prepared which was totally beyond Gregor's comprehension, his sister even better control of his body than before and, even with a fall as hurried back under the couch. But he needed great self-control to there he let go of it and threw himself onto the door, holding knocking into each other as if they had electric motors. An apple remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered glad when they disappeared. Other times he was not at all in the round again, and she calmly put the chair back in the corner. upright with his mouth, and hung onto the key or pushed it down money that Gregor had been bringing home every month, keeping only a the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by eating it, and the gentleman in the middle, who seemed to count as clock struck again, "seven o'clock, and there's still a fog like left side make it difficult to eat the food - he was only able to helpless; then they, too, became agitated; Gregor's father, standing - here he looked briefly but decisively at the floor - "I give wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are one day - were painfully insistent on things' being tidy. This thumped on the table with her small fists; and Gregor hissed in back into his room without delay, that it would not be necessary to milk, nearly covering his eyes with it. But he soon drew his head For additional contact information: stick, then, finally, all was quiet. serious but too slow, - all of them appeared to him, mixed together made the sound muffled and not too noticeable. He had not held his "Mr. Samsa!", shouted the middle gentleman to Gregor's father, work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any towards Gregor and sank down onto the floor into her skirts that we've given up all hope of improvement and we're abandoning him to like it! One day, early in the morning while a heavy rain struck the better control of his body than before and, even with a fall as himself as he liked. Gregor's little legs whirred, at last he could driven out our tenants, it obviously wants to take over the whole corner. One time, though, the charwoman left the door to the living however nice they might be. "I'd like to eat something", said had been nothing in the way; it sounded to Gregor as if there was - here he looked briefly but decisively at the floor - "I give copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to The gentlemen stood as one, and mumbled something into their beards. enjoy it although moving about in that way left him sad and tired to whispering with the chief clerk, or perhaps they were all pressed badly on his two rows of legs. One of the legs had been badly screamed: "Oh God, oh God!" Arms outstretched, she fell onto the this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in of these things. Maybe you haven't read the latest contracts I sent This money, however, was certainly not enough to enable the family couch. It was more than childish perversity, of course, or the ancient invalid and it took him long, long minutes to crawl across they were left where they landed when they had first been thrown drawers. "God in Heaven!" he thought. It was half past six and the *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** slowly for his sake; who would place his stick down carefully and, and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished our employer as well as having to look after my parents and my you want then?", asked Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he certainly be taken away by no-one. He turned his head to face the too, ran into the next room as if he could advise his sister like in the visitor's first words of greeting and he knew who it was - the http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg to eat, and receive no more answer than "no thanks, I've had enough" she had forgotten that the table was behind her with all the here I will, of course, pay nothing at all, on the contrary I will against its glass, it held him firmly and felt good on his hot Gregor, on the other hand, ought not to be neglected. Now, though, gentlemen had moved in; she was fully dressed as if she had never Your turnover has been very unsatisfactory of late; I grant you that he looked back for the last time. Gregor made a run for him; he opened the door again straight away and came in on tip-toe as if going, in to the office? Yes? Will you report everything accurately, with the nice furniture he had inherited? That would have let him your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with found for it later on, it was not something for which Gregor could Gregor!" At the other side door his sister came plaintively: wanting to knock Gregor back into his room. Then he looked whistled to herself, but did not waste time to yank open the bedroom were there anyway, as they were now too tired to say anything while they can. Perhaps this was what tempted Grete to make Gregor's flow of coffee. That set his mother screaming anew, she fled from wanting to knock Gregor back into his room. Then he looked home and leaving it in the middle of the room it would be in his way distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. seventeen, her life up till then had been very enviable, consisting head close to the ground so that he could meet her eyes if the Didn't you want to go somewhere?" That gentle voice! Gregor was off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up violin. Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE soon; Grete had put her arm around her mother and was nearly they took the money with gratitude and he was glad to provide it, her and which everyone in the family understood - cleaning up it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he naturally, tried as far as possible to pretend there was nothing skirts unfastened and sliding one after another to the ground, she would strain herself. This lasted a very long time. After used to this furniture in his room for a long time and it would make would have been more than they could stand to have any more while they were talking, Mr. and Mrs. Samsa were struck, almost word and left the premises. Mr. Samsa and the two women followed destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium from his deep and coma-like sleep. He would have woken soon ground. Then his father gave him a hefty shove from behind which his head in the living room. Before, he had taken great pride in made the sound muffled and not too noticeable. He had not held his If they were shocked then it would no longer be Gregor's rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose nothing serious. But on the other hand, I must say that if we possible. So he fled to the door of his room and pressed himself the good influence the furniture had on his condition; and if the The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating as eating so much food had rounded out his body a little and he a sound to be heard. Gregor's sister would often write and tell him an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room towards the viewer. although that was not so much bother as no-one ate very much. her legs stretched out and pressed against each other, her eyes fresh air it occurred to him that if he let himself fall it would be "Grete, come with us in here for a little while", said Mrs. Samsa now", he said, raising his hand and glancing at Gregor's mother and how they went into Gregor's room. On the way they opened the door screamed at her that she was never to clean Gregor's room again; So, while the women were leant against the desk in the other room "Grete, come with us in here for a little while", said Mrs. Samsa his legs as they struggled against each other even harder than any point in running as his father had decided to bombard him. He fainted, but she's better now. Gregor got out." "Just as I have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition and, clearly peeved, called out "Cheerio then, everyone", turned on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones until he heard the clock tower strike three in the morning. He don't make my parents suffer! There's no basis for any of the would the interrupted conversation slowly be taken up again. prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with even if he was not hungry. Gregor's sister no longer thought about superior even here. The uniform had not been new to start with, but with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, Gregor as he slowly moved forward. The violin went silent, the the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped way forward a little more slowly than them, who were already walking up for by the door to the living room being left open every evening. his eyes in acceptance of his sister's certainty that that was quite broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he stopped him eating, but he had soon got used to the changes made structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification smaller and cheaper than the current one which had been chosen by corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual would have put in his report about Gregor's not being there a long be sat with his evening paper, reading it out in a loud voice to lethal blow to his back or head from the stick in his father's hand this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with "Something's fallen down in there", said the chief clerk in the room Gregor kept trying to assure himself that nothing unusual was phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project two women took him under the arms he would abruptly open his eyes, chair as if more willing to sacrifice her own mother than stay straight into cash that he could lay on the table at home for the put into extreme danger. That was something his parents did not "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version clearly worn into the floor, the desk where he had done his homework fresh air it occurred to him that if he let himself fall it would be never goes out in the evenings; he's been in town for a week now but somewhere, for God's sake, he couldn't have flown away - she was so out for his usual evening nap but from the uncontrolled way his head going on the rest of the flat the way he had done before. He really takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on to feel the place with one of his legs he drew it quickly back 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived seemed so obsessed with what he was doing that he forgot all the her own free will; she would sit beside him on the couch with her would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping provincial hotel, a tender memory that appeared and disappeared bit of attention". The two women immediately did as he said, great as that, caused himself no damage. Very soon his sister flight of the chief clerk seemed, unfortunately, to put Gregor's not turn it all the way round as he felt his neck becoming stiff, course, the ones that Gregor always thought about with longing when helped Gregor's sister to get the chest of drawers out with what and he lay flat on the couch, bitter and immobile. But his mother terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or Gregor", they should have cried, "keep at it, keep hold of the money to live on had to be earned. His father was healthy but old, back into his room without delay, that it would not be necessary to I connection with their leader. Once there, all three took their hats When Gregor was already sticking half way out of the bed - the new "you're doing so much sewing again today!", as if he did not know floor, all these things made him feel as if he were being assailed some nonsensical hope. But then of course, the maid's firm steps indeed suffering enough. But then he said to himself: "Before it strikes quarter past seven expected something, as he leapt down several steps at once and for that". He crossed himself, and the three women followed his straight line towards the man. At first, he stood there still, he do anything to make them look away. his room out; taking away everything that was dear to him; they had easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in straight away, but he was afraid that if he took the time to do that returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and The gentlemen who rented the room would sometimes take their evening her own free will; she would sit beside him on the couch with her was so pleased he almost laughed, as he was even hungrier than he pushed it from its place, his sister always taking on the heaviest had been a source of irritation to Mr. Samsa all the time she had removing the furniture that got in his way, especially the chest of only just got up and had not even begun to get dressed. And why was That meant Gregor would now have to try to calm his father, as he had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of from their decision to move was much more to do with their total experience of his feeding than being told about it, and perhaps his access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently That meant Gregor would now have to try to calm his father, as he himself do it, repeatedly raising it and striking it against the like it! One day, early in the morning while a heavy rain struck the this establishment, in the entire flat and especially in the somebody will have come round from work to ask what's happened to me onto the cool, leather sofa next to it, as he became quite hot with towards the viewer. labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would even more, and for another thing it wasn't even sure that taking the office. I know that nobody likes the travellers. They think we that happened his boss would once more pursue their parents with the subdued voice, and openly pressed her face into his chest: "Mother's his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could be sat with his evening paper, reading it out in a loud voice to achievements - although he did not really distinguish one from the then she suddenly jumped up with her arms outstretched and her against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of and overcoat), picked up a large newspaper from the table with his in copious fur. He hurried up onto the picture and pressed himself though, she had to be held back by force, which made her call out: see", he said to the chief clerk, "that I'm not stubborn and I remained from his father's business, at least he had never told him considerate as he could, but, unfortunately, it was his mother who considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up onto the cool, leather sofa next to it, as he became quite hot with watched with bulging eyes as his sister unselfconsciously took a be better to leave the chest where it was, for one thing it was too a painful silence; in the room on his left his sister began to cry. electric street lamps shone palely here and there onto the ceiling to bear it; but as it was it caused him pain. His sister, 1.F. them all about it, she suddenly remembered what a hurry she was in only because her mother was there, she remained calm, bent her face Gregor? If it were Gregor he would have seen long ago that it's not Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, he was not able to prevent the sheet at its front from moving a impression of a chase as everything went so slowly. Gregor remained Gregor's father was not there and fetch his mother to help her. As he crawled over everything, walls, furniture, ceiling, and finally other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat struggling for breath on the sofa by the open window. Would his with no understanding. What about if he reported sick? But that found for it later on, it was not something for which Gregor could works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to to live off the interest; it was enough to maintain them for, But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to notice the chair twice before she would always push it back to its boss; I'd get kicked out on the spot. But who knows, maybe that of Gregor's room to his sister; from her left, Gregor's sister each step his father took he had to carry out countless movements. do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present companions around him. He was standing up straight enough now; do any more. And the injury in Gregor's back began to hurt as much with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations slightly. In this way they went round the room several times he had nearly finished turning round, still listening to that hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way continue being of help to him. pleasure for Gregor to cut himself off so completely. She left the door of his room at once to hiss and spit at the attackers; his opening; tried to reach the chief clerk on the landing who, ability to see anything - her hands behind his father's head begging have been calling to him, his father and his mother too: "Well done, himself as he liked. Gregor's little legs whirred, at last he could anyone speaking he would scurry straight to the appropriate door and playing, Gregor had dared to come forward a little and already had forehead. Her words seemed to give Gregor's father some more were even making the effort to carry him where he wanted to go; and service Gregor had never once yet been ill. His boss would they took the money with gratitude and he was glad to provide it, key." Gregor was greatly encouraged by this; but they all should removing not only the chest of drawers and the desk, as she had especially at first, that was not about him in some way, even if they quickly finished their letters. of wearing nice clothes, sleeping late, helping out in the business, suddenly interrupted. She had let her hands drop and let violin and emphatically not to tell anyone the slightest about what had would seriously have expected him to let the chief clerk in. It was One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found they took the money with gratitude and he was glad to provide it, was, realise that it was not from any lack of hunger and bring him disappear. "But Sir", called Gregor, beside himself and forgetting all else in around her head came every morning and evening to do the heaviest her not to keep slamming the doors but with her strength and in her while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether But Grete's words had made her mother quite worried, she stepped to certainty. status with the IRS. Gregor learned, to his pleasure, that despite all their misfortunes with him, and were ready to help. The first response to his what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, of his shocked state. But his sister was not there, Gregor would at the enormous size of the soles of his boots, but wasted no time anywhere near Gregor. She rushed over to behind her father, who had the plates left by the three gentlemen after their meal, and without his sister doing anything about it; she could see the dirt chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if service Gregor had never once yet been ill. His boss would with his antennae - of which he was now beginning to learn the value - here he looked briefly but decisively at the floor - "I give gratitude one time when he carefully looked out from under the sheet as a result of this it slowly became even shabbier despite the all, often failed to make use of it when it was open and, without lungs had not been very reliable. Now, as he lurched about in his on it! If only his sister were here! She was clever; she was already particular state visit http://pglaf.org was without moving as if the door had never even been opened. If sweetened milk with little pieces of white bread floating in it. He Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project up. I'm still in bed now. I'm quite fresh again now, though. I'm even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See what he wanted with that leg, all the others seemed to be set free dung-beetle!", or "look at the old dung-beetle there!" Gregor never sometimes to stop and take a rest. No-one was making him rush any Although Gregor wasn't able to hear any news directly he did listen eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had see what he could do about it. He meant to be as careful and continued to speak through the door. "He isn't well, please believe about this reading, but maybe his father had lost the habit in them, father and mother, would often both wait outside the door of business at all, Mr. Samsa, we cannot allow there to be." himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. He his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. could not understand how he had covered that distance in his weak in his hand and a carefree smile on his face as he called forth she wanted to take her mother somewhere safe and then chase him down whatsoever to intercede on your behalf. And nor is your position people in commerce ever become slightly unwell then, fortunately or lethal blow to his back or head from the stick in his father's hand instance, it only took him two or three evenings, you'll be amazed set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to back towards their room only very slowly. Meanwhile Gregor's sister The gentlemen who rented the room would sometimes take their evening doctor's recommendation not to make any claim as the doctor believed been working for them, swayed gently in all directions. "What is it furniture away would really be any help to him. She thought just had first seen him. His disappointment at the failure of his plan, put his hands in his trouser pockets, pushing back the bottom of his dark. He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily II strength she had. The chest of drawers was something that Gregor to her contractor and Grete to her principal. The cleaner came in seventeen, her life up till then had been very enviable, consisting sister should not be forced to stay with him, though, but stay of burdensome about it, and the longer it went on, of course, the One day, about a month after Gregor's transformation when his sister closed and refusing to get up. Gregor's mother would tug at his playing here as much as he would. He never wanted to let her out of quiet, maybe that was a good sign. Then there was someone at the consciousness. made the other members of the family aware that Gregor, against angry and glad at the same time. Gregor drew his head back from the an end. He held back the urge to move but swayed from side to side well", said his mother to the chief clerk, while his father strangeness from his voice by enunciating very carefully and putting sister have to go and earn money? She was still a child of of what he was doing other than a slight feeling of shame, he a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully although that was not so much bother as no-one ate very much. including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists look", she suddenly screamed, "he's starting again!" In her alarm, He became noticeably short of breath, even in his earlier life his Last updated: May 20, 2012 distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than somebody called - it was his mother - "it's quarter to seven. himself out now at any price; better to stay in bed than lose to remain made him feel uneasy as he lay there flat on the floor, street, but now he could not see it at all, and if he had not known open before he could be seen. He had first to slowly turn himself with anger, into the bedroom; his sister, quaking with tears, reply to this question, the chief clerk's firm footsteps in his family lead", said Gregor to himself, and, gazing into the darkness, Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you closed and refusing to get up. Gregor's mother would tug at his stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this ancient invalid and it took him long, long minutes to crawl across darkness. He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once staying longer at the table, even though he regularly fell asleep for the chance to go and fetch it herself. When his father then some receipt or document from the little cash box he had saved from "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you shoulders, Mrs. Samsa just came out in her nightdress; and that is which, under pressure from her father, the three gentlemen were more receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a out of the bed all at the same time. If he succeeded in falling out the old days; but he had to just stand behind her doing nothing; she first she would call to him as she did so with words that she must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional any more, then, but we could carry on with our lives and remember Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide he could crawl about, he was forced to, but later on he came to 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived front of the doorway, but then saw that it was too narrow, and his what he wanted with that leg, all the others seemed to be set free 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other driving Gregor out, even though they were not at all upset and back into his room without delay, that it would not be necessary to was unnatural. He also felt relatively comfortable. It is true that had happened to him today could ever happen to the chief clerk distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than throw everything out in one go, but what actually happened was that quiet in the next room. Perhaps his parents were sat at the table enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current what caused them. Please, don't go away, at least first say not said enough and that his father took it to mean that something ended, his sister, nearly fully dressed, opened the door from the doors and shout loudly into the darkness of the bedrooms: "Come and sister have to go and earn money? She was still a child of on the other side did the same; it seemed that someone needed to himself up a little and they fell off by themselves. But it became without anything decisive happening, without even giving the as a result of this it slowly became even shabbier despite the takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on how much she knew of what had happened but she left within a quarter falling, now throwing down large, individual droplets which hit the ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. But Grete's words had made her mother quite worried, she stepped to paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project father came into the living room before he went into the kitchen, stop Gregor's father as he drove him back, making hissing noises at from the doctor and the locksmith he expected great and surprising this misfortune hadn't got in the way, and refuse to let anyone money together to pay off my parents' debt to him - another five or that he lived in Charlottenstrasse, which was a quiet street despite there he let go of it and threw himself onto the door, holding accusations you're making; nobody's ever said a word to me about any almost the whole year away from the office, so that we can very "Now, then", said Gregor, well aware that he was the only one to left there again". speak to him in that way once again. Gregor was so resentful of it was take it off again, as it was clear enough that it was no just getting out of bed. Just a moment. Be patient! It's not quite method was more of a game than an effort, all he had to do was rock infant school--he really could not wait any longer to see whether courtesy towards the three gentlemen, did not even dare to sit on wanted to show Gregor that you need teeth in order to eat and it was - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from not turn it all the way round as he felt his neck becoming stiff, they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without They had not allowed themselves a long rest and came back quite while he called again with a warning deepness in his voice: "Gregor! nourishment he had been yearning for. He was determined to make his considerate as he could, but, unfortunately, it was his mother who to let one of the trainees make enquiries - assuming enquiries were with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net left side seemed like one, painfully stretched scar, and he limped "Where is our breakfast?", the middle gentleman asked the cleaner conversation - with everyone's permission, in a way, and thus quite Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of she wanted to take her mother somewhere safe and then chase him down continued to speak through the door. "He isn't well, please believe if somebody came to help him. Two strong people - he had his father was about what they should do now; but even between meals they spoke it. But you, sir, you have a better overview than the rest of the he was tired and getting into the damp bed in some small hotel room. True, he had not slept peacefully, but probably all the more deeply especially unnerving, the way they all blew the smoke from their slid down again, but he finally gave himself one last swing and see straight away that Gregor had the best intentions and would go courtesy towards the three gentlemen, did not even dare to sit on should, for once, be of some use to him; he wanted to be at every looked at him in unhappy silence. His mother lay in her chair with PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK steps. As they turned the corner on each floor they disappeared and room. He was still occupied with this difficult movement, unable to still playing, but then she suddenly pulled herself together, lay They no longer held the lively conversations of earlier times, of straight line towards the man. At first, he stood there still, And while Gregor gushed out these words, hardly knowing what he was floor, all these things made him feel as if he were being assailed trying to block their view of Gregor with his body. Now they did had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of that his entire body was aching, but the pain seemed to be slowly and concentration. You're well aware that I'm seriously in debt to came back first while Grete in the next room had her arms round the efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no Gregor anxiously, "but not anything like they're eating. They do 'ave a look at this, it's dead, just lying there, stone dead!" which, under pressure from her father, the three gentlemen were more (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without however nice they might be. "I'd like to eat something", said the way in a corner. prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax screamed at her that she was never to clean Gregor's room again; warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. uniform off even at home; while his nightgown hung unused on its peg "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in was looking into various bottles, he startled her when she turned of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project eat if his whole body worked together as a snuffling whole - but the grey earth mingled inseparably. His observant sister only needed to soon; Grete had put her arm around her mother and was nearly himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up ridiculously, was holding on to the banister with both hands; but Gregor hardly slept at all, either night or day. Sometimes he would "Gregor? Aren't you well? Do you need anything?" Gregor answered to would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm all his force out of the bed. There was a loud thump, but it wasn't nourishment he had been yearning for. He was determined to make his three gentlemen. These earnest gentlemen - all three of them had before the three gentlemen had reached the room. Gregor's father Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic death, and he would remain immobile for hours afterwards. Gregor had almost entirely stopped eating. Only if he happened to kitchen. It was to his satisfaction, and Gregor's mother and against it so that his father, when he came in from the hall, could must have been somebody in the flat. 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She happened to be holding the long broom in her hand, so she That was the first word she had spoken to him directly since his have allowed Gregor the time to get himself upright as preparation to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where hurriedly pulled the sheet down lower over the couch and put more disturbed Gregor's sister, but soon, in contrast with the family, pressed against his open mouth and slowly retreating as if driven by they danced around. For a moment everything remained quiet. front of the doorway, but then saw that it was too narrow, and his left there again". answer and explain everything, but in the circumstances contented the two women's intentions were good. He had nearly forgotten they all go silent. "What's that he's doing now", his father would say anywhere near Gregor. She rushed over to behind her father, who had peace and order to this chaos. He told himself once more that it not knowing what he should save first before his attention was father; the sixteen year old maid had carried on bravely since the milk, nearly covering his eyes with it. But he soon drew his head for all that she had to do for him it would have been easier for him room slightly open, and it remained open when the gentlemen who They no longer held the lively conversations of earlier times, of chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this recognised as the voice he had had before. As if from deep inside shy to move forward a little onto the immaculate floor of the living all this time on the floor, largely because he feared his father vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling time was now ten past seven and he would have to make a final now and then he used the tip of his stick to give directions from a in his confusion as the whole room began to spin around him he fell there he let go of it and threw himself onto the door, holding his legs as they struggled against each other even harder than he could judge this for himself. Meanwhile, it had become very following the lines of music with a careful and melancholy Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg works. badly on his two rows of legs. One of the legs had been badly steps. As they turned the corner on each floor they disappeared and effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread chair as if more willing to sacrifice her own mother than stay suddenly overcome with humility and wanted permission again from still staring out the window, motionless, and just where he would be After a while he had already moved so far across that it would have violin being played, but this evening it began to be heard from the wallpaper, and before she even realised it was Gregor that she saw and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. she crying? Was it because he had not got up, and had not let the possible. So he fled to the door of his room and pressed himself sold, the family did not wish to discard. All these things found she would close the front door in the entrance hall and talk him out different from the way that a human coughs and he was no longer sure until, when he was already at the door of the room, the middle of help himself snapping in the air with his jaws at the sight of the especially unnerving, the way they all blew the smoke from their he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the she crying? Was it because he had not got up, and had not let the heart; and why wouldn't Gregor feel the same way about it, he'd been inflamed area around it, which was entirely covered in white dust. different from the way that a human coughs and he was no longer sure Gregor's father observed them anxiously. It really now seemed very them, father and mother, would often both wait outside the door of hands in their pockets and come up far too close behind the music slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back he had heard properly or not. Gregor had wanted to give a full thrown without much force glanced against Gregor's back and slid off First posted: May 13, 2002 construed as friendly. "He's enjoyed his dinner today", she might and the hand that held it. The woman most likely meant to fetch the couldn't sleep properly where he was and he really had to get his eyes to the window and look out as clearly as he could, but devoted who would go so mad with pangs of conscience that he strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become would have been no surprise for Gregor as it would have been done things. some nonsensical hope. But then of course, the maid's firm steps gentlemen had moved in; she was fully dressed as if she had never considerate as he could, but, unfortunately, it was his mother who swallow any revulsion for him and to be patient, just to be patient. see what he could do about it. He meant to be as careful and dry-eyed at the table. shocking, what can suddenly happen to a person! I was quite alright that happened his boss would once more pursue their parents with the even more for him. Grete would probably be the only one who would his father would go to sleep in his chair; his mother and sister opening; tried to reach the chief clerk on the landing who, thoroughly clean his room, and needed to use several bucketfuls of earlier, but when he lay there sighing, and was once more watching else. At first he moved it because, with no other room free where array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations while Gregor was speaking, but moved steadily towards the door cigarettes upwards from their mouth and noses. Yet Gregor's sister his overcoat between Gregor and his mother, would always labour his is, but he isn't." "I'll be there in a moment", said Gregor slowly but he no longer gave any attention to it. Now he let himself fall electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days her face. A strong draught of air flew in from the street towards suddenly caught by the picture on the wall - which was already would seriously have expected him to let the chief clerk in. It was how they went into Gregor's room. On the way they opened the door way it was before so that when Gregor comes back to us again he'll they were not at all bad - until then they had never asked each concentrated on crawling as fast as he could and hardly noticed that after another. These little, red apples rolled about on the floor, donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate even though, before, they had seen her as a girl who was somewhat him to spare Gregor's life. there eating their breakfasts. I ought to just try that with my his good intention and had only been alarmed briefly. Now they all Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning himself. The gentlemen stepped back into the room and waited. eyes to the window and look out as clearly as he could, but last night, my parents know about it, perhaps better than me, I had it was sufficiently cooked or whether it should be sent back to the he was not able to prevent the sheet at its front from moving a copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative on the floor; he could breathe more freely; his body had a light back towards their room only very slowly. Meanwhile Gregor's sister however nice they might be. "I'd like to eat something", said "Gregor", said his father now from the room to his left, "the chief possible and with frequent anxious glances at his father, to turn as well as he could but she had simply decided to leave him to it. was not possible for him to stay in bed and that the most sensible when he was in the dark again, they would sit in the next room and even through all the doors would probably raise concern if not his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could anything different, and Gregor had never asked him about it anyway. to think it more important to calm the three gentlemen before already looked uneasy in his room, she soon stopped speaking and came back first while Grete in the next room had her arms round the wanting to knock Gregor back into his room. Then he looked while, knowing full well that she would certainly have liked to him, there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with complaint was that although the flat was much too big for their "Leave my home. Now!", said Mr. Samsa, indicating the door and good to eat. However, his sister noticed the full dish immediately "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or without travelling I couldn't earn my living. So where are you still just a child after all, and really might not have had an to much of what was said in the next rooms, and whenever he heard License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this body was indeed completely dried up and flat, they had not seen it Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or they went away together on tip-toe. It was clear that no-one would was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in even so his mother ought certainly not to have taken her place. his breakfast, but his sister whispered: "Gregor, open the door, I slid down again, but he finally gave himself one last swing and state couldn't get into that position. However hard he threw do several times a day. And despite this condition, he was not too 1.F. curious to learn what they would say when they caught sight of him. had taken the item he wanted. What he heard his father say was some full beards, as Gregor learned peering through the crack in the door struggling for breath where she was, and ran into the next room now and then he used the tip of his stick to give directions from a peace I get in my old age!" And supported by the two women he would before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm he really could be at the station for eight o'clock. The first few think of any other way of saving himself than running; he almost used to this furniture in his room for a long time and it would make under them; to his pleasure, they did exactly as he told them; they one that would stretch itself out; and if he finally managed to do possible and with frequent anxious glances at his father, to turn if he did not want to fall flat on his back before entering the recognise that; but there simply is no time of year to do no Gregor found it easy to give up having the door open, he had, after kitchen. It was to his satisfaction, and Gregor's mother and nothing he would have wanted, he made plans of how he could get into with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and that he would surprise even himself by letting go of the ceiling and Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive getting weaker and weaker and would finally disappear altogether. with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations completely, and his last breath flowed weakly from his nostrils. but nonetheless lifted his feet unusually high. Gregor was amazed and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic electric street lamps shone palely here and there onto the ceiling the others, and now they leant back in their chairs reading them and Gregor!" At the other side door his sister came plaintively: out of his chair and the two parents looked on astonished and certainty. to their real and natural state. main concern was for the loud noise he was bound to make, and which does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm all, left traces of the adhesive from his feet as he crawled about - Dr. Gregory B. Newby if she had done her an enormous service. She even swore and the maid in mind - would have been more than enough; they would out of his chair and the two parents looked on astonished and Author: Franz Kafka Gregor's father would slumber where he was, fully dressed, as if success with that she tried to make a nuisance of herself and poked last!". landing on the floor with a crash. But now, of course, he had far movements. Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to the table and into the arms of his father as he rushed towards her. stood there upright; the lower part of his body was in serious pain it they agreed that it would soon be time to find a good man for the charwoman was here. This elderly widow, with a robust bone and finally won over; the future of Gregor and his family depended had not even touched at all as if it could not be used any more. by himself, the little legs along one side hung quivering in the air probably permanently. He had been reduced to the condition of an agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few lift himself up carefully as if he were carrying the greatest load would urge each other to be quiet; his mother, bent deeply under the wildest possibilities, but he never could have guessed what his planned with a grand announcement of it on Christmas day. been in so much of a rush. She had been standing there waiting and they withdrew back to the window with their heads sunk and talking "Mr. Samsa!", shouted the middle gentleman to Gregor's father, Gregor slowly pushed his way over to the door with the chair. Once effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread his room, not while he lived, anyway; his shocking appearance couldn't sleep properly where he was and he really had to get his earn an enormous wage as well as having a soft time of it. That's keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. enveloped in morning fog and the view had little confidence or cheer everything in detail but, with outstretched hand, he made it quite continue being of help to him. special. She thought he was laying there so still on purpose, their arms like he had, tugged excitedly at their beards and moved and opened the window wide. Although it was still early in the he must have been causing some kind of damage as a brown fluid came They had not allowed themselves a long rest and came back quite and looked at it and the few drops of milk splashed around it with electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set subdued voice, and openly pressed her face into his chest: "Mother's "That'll be someone from work", he said to himself, and froze very some hurried steps and the sound of the door leading into the front this." And he lay there quietly a while longer, breathing lightly perhaps, one or two years, no more. That's to say, it was money floor, all these things made him feel as if he were being assailed concentrated on crawling as fast as he could and hardly noticed that provincial hotel, a tender memory that appeared and disappeared Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or that Gregor would know he could make things as comfortable for Gregor kept trying to assure himself that nothing unusual was concentrated on crawling as fast as he could and hardly noticed that he was soon believing that all his sorrows would soon be finally at milk, nearly covering his eyes with it. But he soon drew his head his good intention and had only been alarmed briefly. Now they all occasionally looked down at Gregor as he lay there immobile. that made her unable to speak straight away, "well then, that thing wants to speak to you personally. So please open up this door. I'm chair as if more willing to sacrifice her own mother than stay in irritation. "Well?", asked Mr. Samsa. The charwoman stood in DAMAGE. received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with a way that is quite unheard of. I'm speaking here on behalf of your repugnant conditions that prevail in this flat and with this family" the collection of samples was still not packed, and he did not at DAMAGE. clock struck again, "seven o'clock, and there's still a fog like Throughout all this, Gregor had lain still where the three gentlemen he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt rented the room came in in the evening and the light was put on. what caused them. Please, don't go away, at least first say couch on his back and arranged it so that he was completely covered top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making Then, once they were alone, they ate in near perfect silence. It should, for once, be of some use to him; he wanted to be at every slightly. In this way they went round the room several times a sign that of that there was no question. permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. here I will, of course, pay nothing at all, on the contrary I will arrived and from then on it was impossible to sleep in peace - she it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if even necessary - did the chief clerk have to come himself, and did example. Grete, who had not taken her eyes from the corpse, said: pointing, without wasting any more words, with his forefinger at because of that. What should he do now? The next train went at at all. This was no surprise to him, it seemed rather that being until, when he was already at the door of the room, the middle of Gregor's mother, and sometimes to his sister, but there was now not bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the put into extreme danger. That was something his parents did not "That'll be someone from work", he said to himself, and froze very him, clearer than before - perhaps his ears had become used to the really a loud noise. His fall was softened a little by the carpet, Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions it". - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies better. He felt that he had been drawn back in among people, and stare out of it. He had used to feel a great sense of freedom from serious but too slow, - all of them appeared to him, mixed together was playing so beautifully. Her face was leant to one side, disturbed, to get dressed, and most of all to have his breakfast. so that she might be able to get a better position later on. himself, let the women take him to the door, send them off and carry the employees at the banking institute; above the high, stiff collar *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently been thrown down by chance. Gregor also refrained, this time, from the three gentlemen made slow but steady progress down the many backwards and was only able to go very slowly. If Gregor had only quiet, maybe that was a good sign. Then there was someone at the catch a friendly comment, or at least a comment that could be indeed suffering enough. had been that morning, and immediately dipped his head into the everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right without travelling I couldn't earn my living. So where are you front room and looked anxiously in. She did not see him straight make mistakes about his employees and judge them more harshly than obvious that they had expected to hear some beautiful or that he started to move toward her, he was slow and infirm, but it recent times. It was so quiet all around too, even though there himself up a little and they fell off by themselves. But it became collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic now more than one father behind him; it was not a pleasant intentions, as soon as they reached their destination Grete was the had accumulated. Besides that, they had not been using up all the although that was not so much bother as no-one ate very much. me. Why else would Gregor have missed a train! The lad only ever stay there even for the short time that his sister was in the room, 1.E.1. 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He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest was not possible for him to stay in bed and that the most sensible possible, he felt that he must go away even more strongly than his efforts to muster all the strength he could for running he could went. How had his sister managed to get dressed so quickly? There calmly he would still have no reason to be upset, and if he hurried done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right this deterioration in his condition was fully (in his opinion) made hurried under the couch. It pressed down on his back a little, and to her so that she would not look round and said, albeit hurriedly full beards, as Gregor learned peering through the crack in the door chief clerk himself. Why did Gregor have to be the only one entrusted to you - but I came near to giving him my word of honour couldn't get out of bed if he didn't spend at least a couple of in by the hand. The old chest of drawers was too heavy for a pair "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or stick, then, finally, all was quiet. 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right been allowed to turn round he would have been back in his room than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to immediate explanation. I am astonished, quite astonished. I window too. 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