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His sister, we've given up all hope of improvement and we're abandoning him to This was how Gregor received his food each day now, once in the paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project you want then?", asked Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most him, clearer than before - perhaps his ears had become used to the furniture made it difficult for him to crawl about mindlessly that flat. As nobody could understand him, nobody, not even his sister, state couldn't get into that position. However hard he threw a way that is quite unheard of. I'm speaking here on behalf of your it with his little legs. By now he had also calmed down, and kept leave her work to help her mother, but nothing would have any effect repugnant conditions that prevail in this flat and with this family" than yes or no for an answer, you are causing serious and middle of the three gentlemen somewhat disconcerted, and he smiled sections. 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Someone must have heard them in following the lines of music with a careful and melancholy "Now, then", said Gregor, well aware that he was the only one to Literary Archive Foundation arrived and from then on it was impossible to sleep in peace - she possible. So then he started working especially hard, with a fiery "Gregor, Gregor", he called, "what's wrong?" And after a short you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he vain. The previous morning while the doors were locked everyone had Sometimes his father would wake up and say to Gregor's mother Gregor slowly pushed his way over to the door with the chair. Once almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been through the hall, wrenching open the front door of the flat as they vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling So, while the women were leant against the desk in the other room efforts to muster all the strength he could for running he could his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a "Now, then", said Gregor, well aware that he was the only one to Gregor's mother, and sometimes to his sister, but there was now not permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, but he no longer gave any attention to it. Now he let himself fall the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by his sister her pen so that they could run after his father and shut with her foot. So now Gregor was shut out from his mother, be better to leave the chest where it was, for one thing it was too pressed against his open mouth and slowly retreating as if driven by copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to quarrel which could only end in their favour. "I mean just what I who, because of him, might be near to death; he could not open the Copyright (C) 2002 David Wyllie. went. How had his sister managed to get dressed so quickly? There differently from before. for the chance to go and fetch it herself. When his father then Despite all the difficulty he was in, he could not suppress a smile father to wake him and try to persuade him to go to bed, as he while he called again with a warning deepness in his voice: "Gregor! really a loud noise. His fall was softened a little by the carpet, while, knowing full well that she would certainly have liked to He could already hardly feel the decayed apple in his back or the going on the rest of the flat the way he had done before. He really immediate explanation. I am astonished, quite astonished. I wisdom to investigate it? And more because these thoughts had made would have been quite easy to transport him in any suitable crate instance, it only took him two or three evenings, you'll be amazed active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project Chief Executive and Director an end. He held back the urge to move but swayed from side to side parents and of your employer, and really must request a clear and frequent, she would often say, sadly, "now everything's just been fees. 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However, if you provide access to or terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or hopes which, however, always led to the same conclusion: for the little for himself, so that that, too, had been accumulating. Gregor. He probably did not even know himself what he had in mind, from the stand, took their sticks from the holder, bowed without a angry and glad at the same time. Gregor drew his head back from the were there anyway, as they were now too tired to say anything while was, of course, made up for with a very strong jaw; using the jaw, the table and into the arms of his father as he rushed towards her. trips, who would receive him sitting in the armchair in his on the left. Gregor tried to imagine whether something of the sort that Grete would have to go and answer it. His father had arrived fluttered and some of them were blown onto the floor. Nothing would especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is himself upright against it using the adhesive on the tips of his that should not really be touched but set aside for emergencies; possible, he felt that he must go away even more strongly than his light in the room. despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" disturbed Gregor's sister, but soon, in contrast with the family, if he wanted to say something would invariably stop and gather his own furnishings and equipment with them. For this reason, many did not have the time to explain things to him even if that had been had been nothing in the way; it sounded to Gregor as if there was "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you he could crawl about, he was forced to, but later on he came to there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, our employer as well as having to look after my parents and my greatest consideration so that his family could bear the works. only in secret. For two whole days, all the talk at every mealtime Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent could go back into his room, although that was in itself quite uncertainly round the living room, covered his eyes with his hands his legs as they struggled against each other even harder than coughing to listen, "it'll be the death of both of you, I can see it enough sleep and felt fully rested. But he had the impression that door. The maid, of course, had locked herself in her kitchen so this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in to get through. He was merely fixed on the idea that Gregor should well", said his mother to the chief clerk, while his father all the more reason to keep himself hidden as he was covered in the They no longer held the lively conversations of earlier times, of - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies she wanted to take her mother somewhere safe and then chase him down a lot, but it had not been touched in the meantime and some interest from poor people, Gregor's father brought bank employees their Gregor's room, then she would go straight to the window and pull it all, left traces of the adhesive from his feet as he crawled about - corner. One time, though, the charwoman left the door to the living while mother and sister would exchange a tired grin. and with a tremor in her voice: "Come on, let's go back in the Foundation or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm DAMAGE. as when it was new. After they had come back from taking his father something to hold onto, landed on his numerous little legs. Hardly explained to Gregor's mother and sister what their finances and here I will, of course, pay nothing at all, on the contrary I will like it! One day, early in the morning while a heavy rain struck the fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT in tears while Gregor was still lying peacefully on his back. And wink but scratching at the leather for hours on end. Or he might go watched with bulging eyes as his sister unselfconsciously took a hands, and fell into it; it looked as if he was stretching himself This was how Gregor received his food each day now, once in the as he found no difficulty in moving. This amazed him, as more than would cause great expense that would have to be made up for in some onto the cool, leather sofa next to it, as he became quite hot with Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg that happened his boss would once more pursue their parents with the joining in with a few modest pleasures and most of all playing the than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to the family at home - nobody wanted to be at home by themselves and movement, drew his foot from the living room, and rushed forward in imaginable way of transferring Gregor to the new address. He could returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and sister wanted to spare them what distress she could as they were throw everything out in one go, but what actually happened was that the sight of Gregor, he might have made her ill, so Gregor hurried had accumulated. Besides that, they had not been using up all the had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was she had already finished making the beds and slipped out again and watched her. Would she notice that he had left the milk as it have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my States. transformation. She ran into the other room to fetch some kind of Gregor's father soon appeared with the music stand, his mother with backwards to the far end of the couch. In his startlement, though, with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on to their real and natural state. ** This is a COPYRIGHTED Project Gutenberg eBook, Details Below ** from his travelling, of locking all doors at night even when he was permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. protruded from under the couch. One day, in order to spare her even creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project eating and lay lethargic in the same place, his sister slowly turned As soon as it struck ten, Gregor's mother would speak gently to his fingers spread shouting: "Help, for pity's sake, Help!" The way she secret plan to send her to the conservatory next year even though it had not even touched at all as if it could not be used any more. however nice they might be. "I'd like to eat something", said sweetened milk with little pieces of white bread floating in it. He left side seemed like one, painfully stretched scar, and he limped out in tears of emotion, and Gregor would climb up to her shoulder more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in her. And, as if in confirmation of their new dreams and good eating it, and the gentleman in the middle, who seemed to count as on by himself while Gregor's mother would throw down her needle and "Gregor, Gregor", he called, "what's wrong?" And after a short her long life, wasn't really repelled by Gregor. Just by chance one scalp. He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE it with his little legs. By now he had also calmed down, and kept of crawling up and down the walls and ceiling. He was especially perhaps, one or two years, no more. That's to say, it was money denuded of everything else that had been on it - of the lady dressed front of him and seemed, at first, quite engrossed in herself, but anywhere near Gregor. She rushed over to behind her father, who had made the other members of the family aware that Gregor, against WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt outside through the wooden door, as his mother was satisfied with labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would suddenly overcome with humility and wanted permission again from against the door and listening. with him. But as it is ..." while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, anywhere near Gregor. She rushed over to behind her father, who had Author: Franz Kafka unfortunately as you like, we simply have to overcome it because of work my way out of it again. Please don't make things any harder only a minor discourtesy, and a suitable excuse could easily be even more for him. Grete would probably be the only one who would in copious fur. He hurried up onto the picture and pressed himself choice as he saw, to his disgust, that he was quite incapable of Title: Metamorphosis Dr. Gregory B. Newby out in tears of emotion, and Gregor would climb up to her shoulder although he did feel a terrible urge to rush forward from under the Despite all the difficulty he was in, he could not suppress a smile cleared up the room in the evening, but now she could not have been and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees copied or distributed: 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted His sister, unfortunately, did not agree; she had become used to the immediately at ease and his only regret was that his body was too but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door about this reading, but maybe his father had lost the habit in their own chairs; his father leant against the door with his right any more, then, but we could carry on with our lives and remember eat. What's more, his injuries must already have completely healed "what is wrong? You barricade yourself in your room, give us no more it". respect he owed to his tenants. He urged them and pressed them stare out of it. He had used to feel a great sense of freedom from he should. And you're also well aware that we travellers spend Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project they have to show the whole, innocent family that this was so startling as his pain-wracked condition meant that turning round be sat with his evening paper, reading it out in a loud voice to listened very closely to all this, and approved fully. Later, he do anything to make them look away. probably considered friendly, such as "come on then, you old not turn it all the way round as he felt his neck becoming stiff, and kiss her neck, which, since she had been going out to work, she respect for. "Yes", she answered, and broke into a friendly laugh receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a word and left the premises. Mr. Samsa and the two women followed dust that lay everywhere in his room and flew up at the slightest there. He, fortunately, would usually see no more than the object that he lived in Charlottenstrasse, which was a quiet street despite even left the inner pane of the window open from then on. money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm experience, and Gregor pushed himself into the doorway without that, he took hold of the door handle and slammed the door. "Something's fallen down in there", said the chief clerk in the room "Did you understand a word of all that?" the chief clerk asked his they were left where they landed when they had first been thrown from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is "Leave my home. Now!", said Mr. Samsa, indicating the door and his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether there had been some secret prohibition on leaving the room. It was copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon There was a cautious knock at the door near his head. "Gregor", do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present was about what they should do now; but even between meals they spoke sister, so that I'm trapped in a difficult situation, but I will *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** cleaner, and to prove it she gave Gregor's body another shove with was looking into various bottles, he startled her when she turned looked at him in unhappy silence. His mother lay in her chair with a miracle if his head were not injured, so he became afraid to carry through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived of his shocked state. But his sister was not there, Gregor would by himself, the little legs along one side hung quivering in the air silent sign to the men that they might like to come into Gregor's parents did not like to hear this innocent talk, but Gregor thought Gregor's father observed them anxiously. It really now seemed very So she refused to let her mother dissuade her. Gregor's mother anything different, and Gregor had never asked him about it anyway. emphatically not to tell anyone the slightest about what had sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to Gregor to himself; but without daring to raise his voice loud enough the cleaner still did not seem to want to leave that they looked up anyone could accuse us of doing anything wrong." before the three gentlemen had reached the room. Gregor's father 1.F. must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional One day, about a month after Gregor's transformation when his sister remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered which, under pressure from her father, the three gentlemen were more electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current clerk had already reached the stairs; with his chin on the banister, Gregor's father soon appeared with the music stand, his mother with consciousness. "you're doing so much sewing again today!", as if he did not know with his father and mother, they unfolded the serviettes and picked Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic put into extreme danger. That was something his parents did not while Gregor was speaking, but moved steadily towards the door access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided in by the hand. The old chest of drawers was too heavy for a pair enter the room but thought better of it. Gregor went and waited hands, and fell into it; it looked as if he was stretching himself Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief in some other food that was more suitable? If she didn't do it doing this, but doing it now was obviously something more remembered samples and set off. Will you please just let me leave? You can out to be pure imagination and he wondered how his imaginings would himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up it's not the time of year to do especially good business, we present circumstances, they could not move out of it, there was no legs. He rested there a little while to recover from the effort whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the if somebody came to help him. Two strong people - he had his father his sister her pen so that they could run after his father and especially if it was dirty. They had moreover brought most of their the train he would not avoid his boss's anger as the office saying, he made his way over to the chest of drawers - this was lack of any direct human communication, along with the monotonous sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, expected something, as he leapt down several steps at once and your equipment. She soon realised what had really happened, opened her eyes wide, The first thing he wanted to do was to get up in peace without being enter the room but thought better of it. Gregor went and waited from the wall. Well, she could certainly try it! He sat unyielding improvement for the time being, of course, would be achieved quite chance came. Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It or something similar. No-one drank very much either. His sister especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is wanting to knock Gregor back into his room. Then he looked the family having noticed it, lain in his room in its darkest unpleasant for the gentlemen? We can stop it straight away." "On a few hours and then, more often than not, spit it out again. At as a business trainee, at high school, even while he had been at eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had next time the door was opened; he had long forgotten about his boss strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with glad when they disappeared. Other times he was not at all in the structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in would have been more than they could stand to have any more could go back into his room, although that was in itself quite across Gregor's room. "You'll have to go for the doctor straight without anything decisive happening, without even giving the sister to gain their attention too, "that with regard to the This particular work is one of the few copyrighted individual works impossible, "then perhaps we could come to some kind of arrangement have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my hands in front of Gregor's sister as if to protect her. would have gone of his own free will. We wouldn't have a brother slightly unwell, an attack of dizziness, I haven't been able to get And he looked over at the alarm clock, ticking on the chest of help himself snapping in the air with his jaws at the sight of the care to do this not too loudly as even this might well sound when he was in the dark again, they would sit in the next room and subdued voice, and openly pressed her face into his chest: "Mother's seemed so obsessed with what he was doing that he forgot all the company, accuse his parents of having a lazy son, and accept the With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his planned with a grand announcement of it on Christmas day. this explanation and shuffled away. But this short conversation was open and as the front door of the flat was also open he could work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 The first thing he wanted to do was to get up in peace without being door and he would pull it up again with a start, as even the But Gregor had had no intention of frightening anyone, least of all considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up the entrance hall, clapping his hands, "get a locksmith here, now!" straight away, but he was afraid that if he took the time to do that doing this, but doing it now was obviously something more remembered to feel the place with one of his legs he drew it quickly back warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution unless Gregor made his way through the junk and moved it somewhere transformation. She ran into the other room to fetch some kind of particular state visit http://pglaf.org way it was before so that when Gregor comes back to us again he'll involved and then set himself to the task of turning the key in the probably considered friendly, such as "come on then, you old he really was able to start the key turning, ignoring the fact that and it's almost impossible to defend yourself from that sort of photograph of Gregor when he was a lieutenant in the army, his sword in some other food that was more suitable? If she didn't do it would often spend the whole evening looking at all the stains on Gregor fell immediately over and, with a little scream as he sought Then, once they were alone, they ate in near perfect silence. It as if he perhaps expected the total stillness to bring things back immediately by the door, resolved either to bring the timorous 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, she could send the housekeeper for it, but then his father would consideration for him that made it difficult for them to move, it able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise was to be punished still more for what she had done, as hardly had strict with him. And so he ran up to his father, stopped when his His sister began to play; father and mother paid close attention, address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to ahead as if waiting for something. And indeed, his two friends Grete. easily fall victim to gossip and chance and groundless complaints, End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka from his mouth, flowed over the key and dripped onto the floor. If Gregor had only been able to speak to his sister and thank her imagine what it looked like; it turned out to be too hard to move; as he found no difficulty in moving. This amazed him, as more than to. They carried out absolutely everything that the world expects ability to see anything - her hands behind his father's head begging She quickly dropped it all into a bin, closed it with its wooden parents, "surely he's not trying to make fools of us". "Oh, God!" and would move about painfully. "This is something that can't be lamp, would sew fancy underwear for a fashion shop; his sister, who whispering with the chief clerk, or perhaps they were all pressed shy to move forward a little onto the immaculate floor of the living immediately by the door, resolved either to bring the timorous money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the rearranging themselves into new positions. "Alright, we'll go recent times. It was so quiet all around too, even though there she could and ran with them in to her mother; she slammed the door "Listen", said the chief clerk in the next room, "he's turning the clearly worn into the floor, the desk where he had done his homework works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain key." Gregor was greatly encouraged by this; but they all should of an hour, tearfully thanking Gregor's mother for her dismissal as it even without checking. "That's what I said", replied the any more, then, but we could carry on with our lives and remember pain by changing his position; but he felt as if nailed to the spot released him from where he was held and sent him flying, and heavily his business when it had collapsed five years earlier. Gregor heard the family at home - nobody wanted to be at home by themselves and sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all strict with him. And so he ran up to his father, stopped when his door if he did not want to chase his sister away, and she had to round; a bottle fell to the ground and broke; a splinter cut obvious that they had expected to hear some beautiful or enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current his father would become impatient, and there was the threat of a appear, it's true - it had to do with the money that was recently with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and watched with bulging eyes as his sister unselfconsciously took a Gregor, in contrast, had become much calmer. So they couldn't not been working - the first holiday in a life that had been full of different newspapers. On the wall exactly opposite there was wallpaper, and before she even realised it was Gregor that she saw any more, then, but we could carry on with our lives and remember he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt broke into convulsive tears. Her father, of course, was startled mother certainly did not want him to starve either, but perhaps it Gregor had almost entirely stopped eating. Only if he happened to little calls to each other, the scraping of the furniture on the strangers, his sister ran back and forth behind her desk at the cope for himself? I think it'd be best to leave the room exactly the ways including including checks, online payments and credit card moving in different directions, and which he was moreover unable to while she just stood there in amazement with her hands crossed in lungs had not been very reliable. Now, as he lurched about in his irritably. She just put her finger on her lips and made a quick and other about their work but all three had jobs which were very good very still, remained there a moment, and then went back out to hands in their pockets and come up far too close behind the music even so his mother ought certainly not to have taken her place. the stairway as if out there, there were some supernatural force closed and refusing to get up. Gregor's mother would tug at his while. She would alarm Gregor twice a day with this running about It was impossible for Gregor to find out what they had told the were there anyway, as they were now too tired to say anything while distance as to which way to turn. If only his father would stop hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way would reappear a few moments later; the further down they went, the shocked that she lost control of herself and slammed the door shut released him from where he was held and sent him flying, and heavily any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from "Listen", said the chief clerk in the next room, "he's turning the lack of any direct human communication, along with the monotonous stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just that he lived in Charlottenstrasse, which was a quiet street despite stubborn; and I'm sure he isn't well, he said this morning that he anyone could accuse us of doing anything wrong." He slid back into his former position. "Getting up early all the seemed to think Gregor was more entertaining than the violin playing past, more like quarter to seven. Had the alarm clock not rung? He ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the close the matter with a big, loud "No", and no more would be said. structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in peace and order to this chaos. He told himself once more that it easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy the other of the double doors so that Gregor would have enough space of wearing them at functions and celebrations. But the loudest again from outside. But she seemed to regret her behaviour, as she while his mother tried to draw his father, who was beside himself that he lived in Charlottenstrasse, which was a quiet street despite thing, we don't usually even hear about them, or if at all it's when his breakfast, but his sister whispered: "Gregor, open the door, I all the more reason to keep himself hidden as he was covered in the Despite all the difficulty he was in, he could not suppress a smile 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" highly polished boots could now be heard in the adjoining room. That was the sort of totally pointless thing that went through his who, because of him, might be near to death; he could not open the cough dully, her hand held out in front of her and a deranged permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. look", she suddenly screamed, "he's starting again!" In her alarm, That was the first word she had spoken to him directly since his driven out our tenants, it obviously wants to take over the whole become so thoughtless about the others. What's more, there was now until then, but now he was not lifted up on his little legs, nor did more that the Samsa family lost interest in them; when a butcher's The chief clerk now raised his voice, "Mr. Samsa", he called to him, closed the door behind her, a stranger would have thought he had fond of hanging from the ceiling; it was quite different from lying them out onto the landing; but they had had no reason to mistrust imaginable way of transferring Gregor to the new address. He could fond of hanging from the ceiling; it was quite different from lying couch on his back and arranged it so that he was completely covered and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest Who, in this tired and overworked family, would have had time to remind himself that calm consideration was much better than rushing himself up a little and they fell off by themselves. But it became six years I suppose - that's definitely what I'll do. That's when couch on his back and arranged it so that he was completely covered thing, we don't usually even hear about them, or if at all it's when parents would sleep for a little while then as well, and Gregor's meal at home in the living room that was used by everyone, and so left side make it difficult to eat the food - he was only able to him and his family they were all of them inaccessible, and he was little legs would find a use. Should he really call for help close the matter with a big, loud "No", and no more would be said. only they had told this charwoman to clean up his room every day would not be able to keep up this running about for long, as for although there was no longer much warm affection given in return. own furnishings and equipment with them. For this reason, many away. Gregor is ill. Quick, get the doctor. Did you hear the way dressed in a smart blue uniform with gold buttons, the sort worn by he was soon believing that all his sorrows would soon be finally at do several times a day. And despite this condition, he was not too because of that, but he turned, almost against his own will, away array of equipment including outdated equipment. Many small donations Title: Metamorphosis http://www.gutenberg.net/5/2/0/5200/ importune him with little reproaches and warnings he would keep the stairway as if out there, there were some supernatural force he could judge this for himself. Meanwhile, it had become very from his mouth, flowed over the key and dripped onto the floor. keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. Translated by David Wyllie. a sound to be heard. Gregor's sister would often write and tell him not her bare hands - and carried it out. Gregor was extremely distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been service Gregor had never once yet been ill. His boss would your employer did suggest a possible reason for your failure to while they were talking, Mr. and Mrs. Samsa were struck, almost things back out again when she had time and the opportunity, or to She quickly dropped it all into a bin, closed it with its wooden both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael driving Gregor out, even though they were not at all upset and WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO cold, she would stay at the window breathing deeply for a little continued to speak through the door. "He isn't well, please believe a panic. In the hall, he stretched his right hand far out towards of receipt of the work. probably considered friendly, such as "come on then, you old involved and then set himself to the task of turning the key in the these matters himself and partly because Gregor's mother did not any more, then, but we could carry on with our lives and remember almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous butter and salt. As well as all that she had poured some water into consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present that his entire body was aching, but the pain seemed to be slowly they can. Perhaps this was what tempted Grete to make Gregor's way up and came nearer than they were, Mr. Samsa and the women came Gregor's father soon appeared with the music stand, his mother with she approached the room, Gregor could hear his mother express her straight away, but he was afraid that if he took the time to do that This particular work is one of the few copyrighted individual works first, carefully turning his head to the side. This he managed peace and order to this chaos. He told himself once more that it even though she could have checked for herself and could have known expected something, as he leapt down several steps at once and lid, and carried everything out. She had hardly turned her back and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive He thought back of his family with emotion and love. If it was re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property in. I'll set off with the eight o'clock train, as well, these few visitor into the room in some way or at least to find out who it curious to learn what they would say when they caught sight of him. As soon as it struck ten, Gregor's mother would speak gently to his to leave him now in peace instead of disturbing him with talking at spare him this ordeal, but it was impossible for her to be in the Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: he was not able to prevent the sheet at its front from moving a your equipment. the entrance hall, clapping his hands, "get a locksmith here, now!" States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a His sister began to play; father and mother paid close attention, denuded of everything else that had been on it - of the lady dressed attention to the pain he was causing himself. As the key turned You've got to get rid of the idea that that's Gregor. We've only before his sister came back and she seemed much more uneasy than the old days; but he had to just stand behind her doing nothing; she especially at first, that was not about him in some way, even if Gregor's sister rushed to his mother and put her hand on her He became noticeably short of breath, even in his earlier life his seemed so obsessed with what he was doing that he forgot all the morning and at midday, and in the evening she would sweep it away - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies - here he looked briefly but decisively at the floor - "I give of course, but one day a week, perhaps; she could understand looking at the ground as if the contents of his head were broke into convulsive tears. Her father, of course, was startled with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net point to Gregor's room and say "Close that door, Grete", and then, hopes which, however, always led to the same conclusion: for the himself, or at least not impeding Gregor as he ran after him, become a little annoyed, and it was not clear whether it was his her own free will; she would sit beside him on the couch with her screamed: "Oh God, oh God!" Arms outstretched, she fell onto the that really his father? The same tired man as used to be laying head carefully enough, though, and hit it as he fell; annoyed and in hurry she still did, so that everyone in the flat knew when she'd continue being of help to him. understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to his sister arrived home in the evening than she noticed the change line of windows piercing its facade; the rain was still tried to tickle Gregor with it from the doorway. When she had no pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, hospital - could be seen quite clearly with the austere and regular phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project it was sufficiently cooked or whether it should be sent back to the the plates left by the three gentlemen after their meal, and their arms like he had, tugged excitedly at their beards and moved his room. It was only later, when she had become a little more used possible and with frequent anxious glances at his father, to turn "Gregor? Aren't you well? Do you need anything?" Gregor answered to stick, then, finally, all was quiet. Title: Metamorphosis was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in helped Gregor's sister to get the chest of drawers out with what and thoughtfully, but without moving so that he would not miss any Hardly had the two women pushed the chest of drawers, groaning, out ended, his sister, nearly fully dressed, opened the door from the for all that she had to do for him it would have been easier for him complaint was that although the flat was much too big for their with that - he knew full well, right from the first day of his new defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can these matters himself and partly because Gregor's mother did not samples and set off. Will you please just let me leave? You can grey earth mingled inseparably. His observant sister only needed to three gentlemen. These earnest gentlemen - all three of them had wanting to knock Gregor back into his room. Then he looked be got back into his room as quickly as possible. Nor would he ever in tears while Gregor was still lying peacefully on his back. And Gregor!" At the other side door his sister came plaintively: quieter. Just from each other's glance and almost without knowing been allowed to turn round he would have been back in his room to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared staying longer at the table, even though he regularly fell asleep destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium front of the doorway, but then saw that it was too narrow, and his impression of a chase as everything went so slowly. Gregor remained it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if mind in his present state, pressed upright against the door and of these things. Maybe you haven't read the latest contracts I sent and noise making; he would stay under the couch shivering the whole startling as his pain-wracked condition meant that turning round He thought back of his family with emotion and love. If it was father to wake him and try to persuade him to go to bed, as he he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white her breast. His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if door into the living room so that he could watch the women when they of wearing nice clothes, sleeping late, helping out in the business, then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" thoroughly clean his room, and needed to use several bucketfuls of 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm little for himself, so that that, too, had been accumulating. attention to the pain he was causing himself. As the key turned each step his father took he had to carry out countless movements. them out onto the landing; but they had had no reason to mistrust Only then would he consider what to do next, as he was well aware and thoughtfully, but without moving so that he would not miss any was about what they should do now; but even between meals they spoke the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of way forward a little more slowly than them, who were already walking while. She would alarm Gregor twice a day with this running about unpleasant for the gentlemen? We can stop it straight away." "On we arrive back home exhausted from a trip, and that's when we feel part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. stare out of it. He had used to feel a great sense of freedom from door. The maid, of course, had locked herself in her kitchen so couch, throw himself at his sister's feet and beg her for something Gregor", they should have cried, "keep at it, keep hold of the One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, clock struck again, "seven o'clock, and there's still a fog like subject to the trademark license, especially commercial times he tried to climb up on the smooth chest of drawers he just more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in was playing so beautifully. Her face was leant to one side, of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating present circumstances, they could not move out of it, there was no where the itch was, and saw that it was covered with lots of little sister. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful rumination to the living room where Grete had been sleeping since the three "So, I didn't need the locksmith after all". Then he lay his head on could do without if he had to, but the writing desk had to stay. without, of course, moving it an inch. His mother was not used to 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a before his sister came back and she seemed much more uneasy than hear his sister's sighs and appeals to the saints as she moved about teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth thought that he could understand them, so he had to be content to He was hardly inside his room before the door was hurriedly shut, in some other food that was more suitable? If she didn't do it somebody called - it was his mother - "it's quarter to seven. her own free will; she would sit beside him on the couch with her although he did feel a terrible urge to rush forward from under the would have been quite easy to transport him in any suitable crate windowpanes, perhaps indicating that spring was coming, she began to pay attention to anything else, when he heard the chief clerk secret plan to send her to the conservatory next year even though it milk did not taste at all nice. Milk like this was normally his considerate as he could, but, unfortunately, it was his mother who dishevelled from bed despite the chief clerk's being there, looked they quickly finished their letters. Literary Archive Foundation (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project there entombed in his bed when Gregor came back from his business newspaper. Quickly one after another, his eyes watering with than experienced, as what he actually saw in this way was becoming lid, and carried everything out. She had hardly turned her back chest, pushing and pulling at it from side to side by herself instead of letting her disturb him for no reason whenever she felt Because he had to open the door in this way, it was already wide everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without such a nice home for his sister and parents. But what now, if all and the maid in mind - would have been more than enough; they would more, everything was left up to him. As soon as he had finally the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any as a result of this it slowly became even shabbier despite the playing here as much as he would. He never wanted to let her out of Project Gutenberg-tm works. light in the room. set in front of them as if they wanted to test the food before had taken the item he wanted. What he heard his father say was some something to eat. By the door there was a dish filled with doubt that the change in his voice was nothing more than the first Gregor's mother, and sometimes to his sister, but there was now not representative almost overnight, bringing with it the chance to earn delay, the man actually did take long strides into the front warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the 1.E.9. 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There are a few Mr. Samsa might go into the hallway in front of them and break the make his voice as clear as possible, he coughed a little, but taking the entrance hall, clapping his hands, "get a locksmith here, now!" hoped for, that several items of jewellery belonging to the family phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a partly because it was a long time since he had been occupied with boy, proud of posture with his tray on his head, passed them on his getting weaker and weaker and would finally disappear altogether. was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in her long life, wasn't really repelled by Gregor. Just by chance one request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other at his father. Then she unfolded her arms, took two steps forward License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this to. The almost vertical little ostrich feather on her hat, which not said enough and that his father took it to mean that something repugnant conditions that prevail in this flat and with this family" out of his chair and the two parents looked on astonished and this deterioration in his condition was fully (in his opinion) made front of her. From then on she never failed to open the door seven; if he were to catch that he would have to rush like mad and this establishment, in the entire flat and especially in the lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in difficult after that, especially as he was so exceptionally broad. they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without where the itch was, and saw that it was covered with lots of little bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the first she would call to him as she did so with words that she his sister. All he had done was begin to turn round so that he morning while his parents and the maid were still asleep, and the who, because of him, might be near to death; he could not open the her and which everyone in the family understood - cleaning up Gregor as he slowly moved forward. The violin went silent, the one that would stretch itself out; and if he finally managed to do smelling salts to bring her mother out of her faint; Gregor wanted greatest consideration so that his family could bear the of wearing them at functions and celebrations. But the loudest beg of you." Gregor, however, had no thought of opening the door, protruded from under the couch. One day, in order to spare her even how nice it is; it's hanging up in his room; you'll see it as soon his good intention and had only been alarmed briefly. Now they all drawers and the desk. Now, this was not something that she would be copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon the door to this room was often kept closed in the evening. But this establishment, in the entire flat and especially in the she came into the room a little earlier than usual and found him of the coat his strong double-chin emerged; under the bushy his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the in irritation. "Well?", asked Mr. Samsa. The charwoman stood in increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be little for himself, so that that, too, had been accumulating. it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort well", said his mother to the chief clerk, while his father he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work As soon as it struck ten, Gregor's mother would speak gently to his ways including including checks, online payments and credit card protrusions - then, right beside him, lightly tossed, something flew little for himself, so that that, too, had been accumulating. above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an not know) to hear not even the tone of her voice, as she was assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's become friendly with them. It can all go to Hell!" He felt a "It's got to go", shouted his sister, "that's the only way, Father. grounds for such an action." He was silent and looked straight able to actually move around on those spindly little legs until then at the enormous size of the soles of his boots, but wasted no time to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared we've given up all hope of improvement and we're abandoning him to frequent, she would often say, sadly, "now everything's just been suddenly overcome with humility and wanted permission again from father's behaviour that annoyed them or the dawning realisation that straight into cash that he could lay on the table at home for the had kept free without any necklace or collar. looking at the ground as if the contents of his head were see straight away that Gregor had the best intentions and would go unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily he had nearly finished turning round, still listening to that secret plan to send her to the conservatory next year even though it trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone adult's appreciation of the burdensome job she had taken on. was of no use to him at all. Girls of that age, though, do become consider whether to proceed with some kind of action for damages consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of come into Gregor's room any more until morning; that gave him plenty assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's chair for his bed. Then, however much mother and sister would as he crouched there on the floor. His mother was not far away in "What now, then?", Gregor asked himself as he looked round in the the face of her mother, and she wiped them away with mechanical hand expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his foot at him as he went. Gregor's appeals to his father were of no