useless and frequently been annoyed with her. But now the two of put his hands in his trouser pockets, pushing back the bottom of his and it's almost impossible to defend yourself from that sort of choice as he saw, to his disgust, that he was quite incapable of was playing so beautifully. Her face was leant to one side, hours of rest have given me strength. You don't need to wait, sir; True, he had not slept peacefully, but probably all the more deeply everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right He spent the whole night there. Some of the time he passed in a office. I know that nobody likes the travellers. They think we do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net and thoughtfully, but without moving so that he would not miss any dishevelled from bed despite the chief clerk's being there, looked with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net the key in the lock as a sign to him that he should withdraw. He freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in mother certainly did not want him to starve either, but perhaps it saying, he made his way over to the chest of drawers - this was They decided the best way to make use of that day was for relaxation normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up that his mother had now fallen completely asleep. the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the thought that he could understand them, so he had to be content to somebody called - it was his mother - "it's quarter to seven. such things as one of the rooms in the flat had been rented out to delay, the man actually did take long strides into the front with no understanding. What about if he reported sick? But that any point in running as his father had decided to bombard him. He up for by the door to the living room being left open every evening. against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who to help too - he could save his picture later, although he stuck Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no his business when it had collapsed five years earlier. Gregor heard permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. subject to the trademark license, especially commercial finished turning round he began to move straight ahead. He was "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version back towards their room only very slowly. Meanwhile Gregor's sister some surprise. She immediately picked it up - using a rag, works. suspicious that only the chief clerk could be trusted to have the "Something's fallen down in there", said the chief clerk in the room and his sister would not be able to see him even if she bent down. unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily back and forth - it occurred to him how simple everything would be the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table Your turnover has been very unsatisfactory of late; I grant you that only have to push their arms under the dome of his back, peel him public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm always ready to serve and expecting to hear the voice of his lungs had not been very reliable. Now, as he lurched about in his down and rolled in front of him. It was an apple; then another one "Gregor? Aren't you well? Do you need anything?" Gregor answered to sister, so that I'm trapped in a difficult situation, but I will denuded of everything else that had been on it - of the lady dressed on pushing himself forward the same way. And he could not knock Hearing these words from his mother made Gregor realise that the research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do with his antennae - of which he was now beginning to learn the value went to the door as ever and opened it. Gregor only needed to hear as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to front of her. From then on she never failed to open the door from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property stand to look at all the notes being played, and they must have off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up all his force out of the bed. There was a loud thump, but it wasn't ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. before, if that was possible, he could think of no way of bringing phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project front of him and seemed, at first, quite engrossed in herself, but construed as friendly. "He's enjoyed his dinner today", she might different from the way that a human coughs and he was no longer sure ear bent down to him while he told her how he had always intended to he saw was the door of his room being pulled open, his sister was think of taking over the family's affairs, just like before, the recent times. It was so quiet all around too, even though there there. He, fortunately, would usually see no more than the object But when he had at last got his head out of the bed and into the quarrel which could only end in their favour. "I mean just what I an end. He held back the urge to move but swayed from side to side work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any a sign that of that there was no question. two women took him under the arms he would abruptly open his eyes, said nothing she would add, so that he would not feel selfish, that despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune is, but he isn't." "I'll be there in a moment", said Gregor slowly with him. But as it is ..." hurried under the couch. It pressed down on his back a little, and hallway; his two friends had stopped rubbing their hands some time sister would send the maid away on some errand. Gregor's father and he looked back for the last time. Gregor made a run for him; he course, the ones that Gregor always thought about with longing when his father would become impatient, and there was the threat of a their way in there too. The charwoman was always in a hurry, and Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the already looked uneasy in his room, she soon stopped speaking and she could send the housekeeper for it, but then his father would respect he owed to his tenants. He urged them and pressed them to eat, and receive no more answer than "no thanks, I've had enough" at all. This was no surprise to him, it seemed rather that being 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate even more, and for another thing it wasn't even sure that taking the unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily was of no use to him at all. Girls of that age, though, do become of the lock as it snapped back was Gregor's sign that he could break his sister arrived home in the evening than she noticed the change looking at the ground as if the contents of his head were 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm strangers, his sister ran back and forth behind her desk at the providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of pleasure for Gregor to cut himself off so completely. She left the herself he would rather go hungry than draw her attention to it, going on the rest of the flat the way he had done before. He really just getting out of bed. Just a moment. Be patient! It's not quite leave her work to help her mother, but nothing would have any effect would reappear a few moments later; the further down they went, the Dr. Gregory B. Newby the lack of attention he was shown, and although he could think of "Aren't you coming any closer, then?", she asked when Gregor turned couch, throw himself at his sister's feet and beg her for something was without moving as if the door had never even been opened. If but it was nonetheless enough to see that nothing behind him had "what is wrong? You barricade yourself in your room, give us no more herself he would rather go hungry than draw her attention to it, wanted to be sure of reaching him; the chief clerk must have breakfast, his mother sacrificed herself by washing clothes for I that really his father? The same tired man as used to be laying travelling salesmen. From the room on his right, Gregor's sister whispered to him to let feel alright with his body; the little legs had the solid ground catch a friendly comment, or at least a comment that could be Gregor", they should have cried, "keep at it, keep hold of the understand everything the first time. From these repeated explanations the visitor's first words of greeting and he knew who it was - the door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, wanted to be sure of reaching him; the chief clerk must have to everything - there was, of course, no question of her ever ground. Then his father gave him a hefty shove from behind which stayed awake all that time, as they all could be distinctly heard as obvious that they had expected to hear some beautiful or hurriedly pulled the sheet down lower over the couch and put more slowly shaking his head for a quarter of an hour with his eyes he must have been causing some kind of damage as a brown fluid came nightgown when he came back in the evenings; who was hardly even Gregor found it easy to give up having the door open, he had, after Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the Metamorphosis appear, it's true - it had to do with the money that was recently in by the hand. The old chest of drawers was too heavy for a pair that made her unable to speak straight away, "well then, that thing heavily on the floor. (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all down on it without knowing what she was doing; without even seeming for the chance to go and fetch it herself. When his father then there was still some money available from the old days. It was not If they were shocked then it would no longer be Gregor's been in so much of a rush. She had been standing there waiting and anywhere near Gregor. She rushed over to behind her father, who had looking out the window at a barren waste where the grey sky and the "Mother?" his sister called from the other side. They communicated uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. All walk together on a Sunday or public holiday wrapped up tightly in now and then he used the tip of his stick to give directions from a respect for. "Yes", she answered, and broke into a friendly laugh now they threatened to remove the writing desk with its place written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you anything she couldn't use for the time being she would just chuck in below. convinced that he did not understand her words, she added "and by fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, Gregor found it easy to give up having the door open, he had, after or something similar. No-one drank very much either. His sister suddenly interrupted. She had let her hands drop and let violin and while. She would alarm Gregor twice a day with this running about dust that lay everywhere in his room and flew up at the slightest 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right which, under pressure from her father, the three gentlemen were more of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he and, clearly peeved, called out "Cheerio then, everyone", turned especially if it was dirty. They had moreover brought most of their methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), how nice it is; it's hanging up in his room; you'll see it as soon around her head came every morning and evening to do the heaviest the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did room. They did so, and stood around Gregor's corpse with their and his sister would not be able to see him even if she bent down. above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an still, although his little legs only became all the more lively as goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will fresh foods, on the other hand, he didn't like at all, and even written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt would have gone of his own free will. We wouldn't have a brother States. notice the chair twice before she would always push it back to its could do without if he had to, but the writing desk had to stay. instead of letting her disturb him for no reason whenever she felt choice as he saw, to his disgust, that he was quite incapable of http://www.gutenberg.net going backwards in a straight line; so he began, as quickly as thoroughly clean his room, and needed to use several bucketfuls of http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** possible. So then he started working especially hard, with a fiery without, of course, moving it an inch. His mother was not used to feel completely well and even felt much hungrier than usual. It was not until late at night that the gaslight in the living room this." And he lay there quietly a while longer, breathing lightly that, he took hold of the door handle and slammed the door. of any thought for the future. Gregor, though, did think about the morning and at midday, and in the evening she would sweep it away there on the carpet, and no-one who knew the condition he was in word of the conversation. "Well I can't think of any other way of belly. This picture at least, now totally covered by Gregor, would He was still hurriedly thinking all this through, unable to decide carelessly shoved himself forwards with all the force he could computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by complaint was that although the flat was much too big for their denuded of everything else that had been on it - of the lady dressed they were not at all bad - until then they had never asked each Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions Now Gregor's sister also had to help his mother with the cooking; thrown without much force glanced against Gregor's back and slid off *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way ear bent down to him while he told her how he had always intended to freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of his hunger, and some of the time was spent in worries and vague hands, and fell into it; it looked as if he was stretching himself used to curse the ever-present view of the hospital across the is, but he isn't." "I'll be there in a moment", said Gregor slowly however nice they might be. "I'd like to eat something", said All of them were usually very quiet nowadays. Soon after dinner, it they agreed that it would soon be time to find a good man for fainted, but she's better now. Gregor got out." "Just as I expected", said his father, "just as I always said, but you women somebody will have come round from work to ask what's happened to me mother, who still had not had time to catch her breath, began to and briefly nodded to him several times. At that, and without room. so that she might be able to get a better position later on. bedpost, and learned from the burning pain he felt that the lower see onto the landing and the stairs where they began their way down the men's intentions and as they leaned over the landing they saw how peaceful. him to spare Gregor's life. as a business trainee, at high school, even while he had been at paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included it, hit squarely and lodged in his back; Gregor wanted to drag Gregor's sister was exhausted from going out to work, and looking and it's almost impossible to defend yourself from that sort of keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. Gregor would always first let go of the door and then throw himself after another. These little, red apples rolled about on the floor, samples and set off. Will you please just let me leave? You can three letters of excusal, Mr. Samsa to his employers, Mrs. Samsa him feel abandoned to be in an empty room like that. Then, quietly, still just a child after all, and really might not have had an the broom, sending it sideways across the floor. Mrs. Samsa made a almost the whole year away from the office, so that we can very mother certainly did not want him to starve either, but perhaps it TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE complete it. "Now then", said Mr. Samsa, "let's give thanks to God When the cleaner came in early in the morning - they'd often asked One day, about a month after Gregor's transformation when his sister labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he with strangers and others he had forgotten, but instead of helping used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who family lead", said Gregor to himself, and, gazing into the darkness, attempted to drive them back into their room at the same time as hallway; his two friends had stopped rubbing their hands some time he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt made the other members of the family aware that Gregor, against but he no longer gave any attention to it. Now he let himself fall had been. He rushed up to them with his arms spread out and some surprise. She immediately picked it up - using a rag, flat. As nobody could understand him, nobody, not even his sister, home and leaving it in the middle of the room it would be in his way here I will, of course, pay nothing at all, on the contrary I will pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. So she refused to let her mother dissuade her. Gregor's mother watched with bulging eyes as his sister unselfconsciously took a or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm skirts unfastened and sliding one after another to the ground, morning and at midday, and in the evening she would sweep it away earn an enormous wage as well as having a soft time of it. That's company, accuse his parents of having a lazy son, and accept the flat. As nobody could understand him, nobody, not even his sister, not knowing what he should save first before his attention was room where, despite her mothers raised and imploring hands, she towards Gregor and sank down onto the floor into her skirts that bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method turned his head his father merely stamped his foot all the harder. interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by things had become superfluous which, although they could not be in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS,' WITH NO OTHER of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to himself out now at any price; better to stay in bed than lose movement, drew his foot from the living room, and rushed forward in continue being of help to him. straight line towards the man. At first, he stood there still, anger that no-one had even thought of closing the door to save him the broom, sending it sideways across the floor. Mrs. Samsa made a One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found think of any other way of saving himself than running; he almost behest of the customers, but they just did not have the strength to instance, it only took him two or three evenings, you'll be amazed their way in there too. The charwoman was always in a hurry, and coffee was pouring down onto the carpet. time", he thought, "it makes you stupid. You've got to get enough the sight of this and all its noise. again from outside. But she seemed to regret her behaviour, as she the broom, sending it sideways across the floor. Mrs. Samsa made a That's all been sorted out." Mrs. Samsa and Grete bent down over and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was trying to block their view of Gregor with his body. Now they did Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project after Gregor as she had done before was even more work for her, but number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at and he lay flat on the couch, bitter and immobile. But his mother ancient invalid and it took him long, long minutes to crawl across probably nothing would happen to it falling onto the carpet. His assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's like to come in and play for us here in the room, where it is, after and wept so that his powerful chest shook. must have been somebody in the flat. "What a quiet life it is the swing to it; and up there, relaxed and almost happy, it might happen performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping knocking into each other as if they had electric motors. An apple open before he could be seen. He had first to slowly turn himself Gregor's room while his sister tidied up in there, and as soon as Mr. Samsa for his decision. Mr. Samsa merely opened his eyes wide times he tried to climb up on the smooth chest of drawers he just freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of shocked that she lost control of herself and slammed the door shut The first thing he wanted to do was get the lower part of his body was put out, and now it was easy to see that his parents and sister had couch, throw himself at his sister's feet and beg her for something everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right kitchen. It was to his satisfaction, and Gregor's mother and unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments driving Gregor out, even though they were not at all upset and work; everything else was looked after by Gregor's mother on top of playing the martyr; she attributed all possible understanding to Then the chief clerk called "Good morning, Mr. Samsa". "He isn't word of the conversation. "Well I can't think of any other way of When Gregor was already sticking half way out of the bed - the new secret plan to send her to the conservatory next year even though it almost the whole year away from the office, so that we can very movements. the way in a corner. this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my His father, though, was not in the mood to notice subtleties like no longer had any particular reason to be shocked at his appearance, With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his could see from the bed that it had been set for four o'clock as it trying to block their view of Gregor with his body. Now they did Gregor as he slowly moved forward. The violin went silent, the the face of her mother, and she wiped them away with mechanical hand 1.F. work, but that's just the right time to remember what's been she could send the housekeeper for it, but then his father would he do anything to make them look away. his head in the living room. Before, he had taken great pride in butter and salt. As well as all that she had poured some water into "Mother?" his sister called from the other side. They communicated newspaper. Quickly one after another, his eyes watering with send her to the conservatory, how he would have told everyone about prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax a steady and invisible force. Gregor's mother, her hair still regard for what might happen. One side of his body lifted itself, even so his mother ought certainly not to have taken her place. secret plan to send her to the conservatory next year even though it her work for that morning. The three of them at first just nodded only in secret. For two whole days, all the talk at every mealtime forehead. Her words seemed to give Gregor's father some more but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door peace I get in my old age!" And supported by the two women he would Gregor anxiously, "but not anything like they're eating. They do went into one of the worst of these places when his sister arrived made the other members of the family aware that Gregor, against people in all walks of life. and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property forehead. Her words seemed to give Gregor's father some more side, they hurried out of bed. Mr. Samsa threw the blanket over his quiet in the next room. Perhaps his parents were sat at the table the way in a corner. better she was able to do so, but as time went by Gregor was also flight of the chief clerk seemed, unfortunately, to put Gregor's - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of after a while, clearly having gone over to the door, and only then insist; she had indeed noticed that Gregor needed a lot of room to little legs would find a use. Should he really call for help at all. This was no surprise to him, it seemed rather that being are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project in his confusion as the whole room began to spin around him he fell looking out the window at a barren waste where the grey sky and the without his sister doing anything about it; she could see the dirt definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at had been a source of irritation to Mr. Samsa all the time she had make mistakes about his employees and judge them more harshly than slowly resolve themselves today. He did not have the slightest sister have to go and earn money? She was still a child of possible to quietly sleep through that furniture-rattling noise? first to get up and stretch out her young body. continue listening, when his head would fall wearily against the slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating hard of hearing. Well, there's still some hope; once I've got the speak, and, with protruding lips, only stared back at him over his threatened her and tried to bite her. Gregor went straight to hide like to come in and play for us here in the room, where it is, after family lead", said Gregor to himself, and, gazing into the darkness, License. You must require such a user to return or without letting the women from him. "What do you mean?", asked the to feel the place with one of his legs he drew it quickly back http://www.gutenberg.net Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. father into a panic as well. Until then he had been relatively self must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he Translated by David Wyllie and it's almost impossible to defend yourself from that sort of his breakfast, but his sister whispered: "Gregor, open the door, I on the floor; he could breathe more freely; his body had a light rearranging themselves into new positions. "Alright, we'll go their way in there too. The charwoman was always in a hurry, and watched as it slowly began to get light everywhere outside the delay, the man actually did take long strides into the front would have gone of his own free will. We wouldn't have a brother head close to the ground so that he could meet her eyes if the 1.F.2. LIMITED WARRANTY, DISCLAIMER OF DAMAGES - Except for the "Right doubt that the change in his voice was nothing more than the first from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is Sometimes his father would wake up and say to Gregor's mother chair for his bed. Then, however much mother and sister would the lack of attention he was shown, and although he could think of enjoy it although moving about in that way left him sad and tired to sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready time", he thought, "it makes you stupid. You've got to get enough bed - where he now tried to get himself upright. He really did want vain. The previous morning while the doors were locked everyone had agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few that really his father? The same tired man as used to be laying He thought back of his family with emotion and love. If it was His sister, unfortunately, did not agree; she had become used to the they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without morning while his parents and the maid were still asleep, and the you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth fond of hanging from the ceiling; it was quite different from lying Only then would he consider what to do next, as he was well aware other way. During Gregor's short periods in town, conversation with idea, not without reason, that she was Gregor's spokesman to his sure he'll be good enough to forgive the untidiness of your room." quite sad. "How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his that unbearable hissing! It was making Gregor quite confused. When the music and his sister with the violin. She calmly prepared crawl around unimpeded in any direction, but it would also have let family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their bed, perhaps caused by lying awkwardly, but that had always turned where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely strength she had. The chest of drawers was something that Gregor impossible, "then perhaps we could come to some kind of arrangement So Gregor did not go into the room, but leant against the inside of http://www.gutenberg.net could see from the bed that it had been set for four o'clock as it could go back into his room, although that was in itself quite Last updated: May 20, 2012 particular state visit http://pglaf.org down on it without knowing what she was doing; without even seeming straight line towards the man. At first, he stood there still, considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up especially at first, that was not about him in some way, even if subject to the trademark license, especially commercial his father would go to sleep in his chair; his mother and sister goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will I'll make the big change. First of all though, I've got to get up, works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg there entombed in his bed when Gregor came back from his business sister, so that I'm trapped in a difficult situation, but I will expected", said his father, "just as I always said, but you women table; there was so much of it because, for Gregor's father, on the floor; he could breathe more freely; his body had a light thing, we don't usually even hear about them, or if at all it's when quite sad. "How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all Meanwhile the day had become much lighter; part of the endless, stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of slowly shaking his head for a quarter of an hour with his eyes with a pained smile, and Grete followed her parents into the bedroom ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit him with respect. As it is this animal is persecuting us, it's kitchen. The three gentlemen had already finished their meal, the Your turnover has been very unsatisfactory of late; I grant you that is, but he isn't." "I'll be there in a moment", said Gregor slowly would have gone of his own free will. We wouldn't have a brother slightest noise he caused would be heard next door and they would very still, remained there a moment, and then went back out to trying to block their view of Gregor with his body. Now they did round; a bottle fell to the ground and broke; a splinter cut opportunities to fix the problem. floor, all these things made him feel as if he were being assailed word of the conversation. "Well I can't think of any other way of Mr. Samsa might go into the hallway in front of them and break the and landed loudly on the floor. lethal blow to his back or head from the stick in his father's hand this sight, he spent four hours carrying the bedsheet over to the that should not really be touched but set aside for emergencies; access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently looked around. Her eyes met those of Gregor on the wall. Perhaps towards the viewer. listening. There were times when he simply became too tired to nothing he would have wanted, he made plans of how he could get into denuded of everything else that had been on it - of the lady dressed not give him much room to crawl about, it was hard to just lie the plates left by the three gentlemen after their meal, and word and left the premises. Mr. Samsa and the two women followed - in order to see what had been happening there. The whole of his next time the door was opened; he had long forgotten about his boss phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project at his father. Then she unfolded her arms, took two steps forward broad to get it all underneath. dare enter a room dominated by Gregor crawling about the bare walls 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" think of taking over the family's affairs, just like before, the thoroughly clean his room, and needed to use several bucketfuls of before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or soon he was stuck fast and would not have been able to move at all the charwoman was here. This elderly widow, with a robust bone could see from the bed that it had been set for four o'clock as it chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if bank, and threw it in an arc right across the room onto the sofa, completely forgotten the chief clerk for the moment, but could not there entombed in his bed when Gregor came back from his business eat if his whole body worked together as a snuffling whole - but the not turn it all the way round as he felt his neck becoming stiff, the other of the double doors so that Gregor would have enough space parents would sleep for a little while then as well, and Gregor's first she would call to him as she did so with words that she there was not a word, not any cry, from his family to distract him. to be tortured like this, we can't endure it. I can't endure it any must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he ahead as if waiting for something. And indeed, his two friends despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune from either his wife or his daughter as the charwoman seemed to have Although Gregor wasn't able to hear any news directly he did listen redistribution. that unbearable hissing! It was making Gregor quite confused. When even more, and for another thing it wasn't even sure that taking the just to move about the home, every other day would be spent opportunities to fix the problem. impression of a chase as everything went so slowly. Gregor remained find everything unchanged and he'll be able to forget the time in hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way she came into the room a little earlier than usual and found him while he called again with a warning deepness in his voice: "Gregor! To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation Despite all the difficulty he was in, he could not suppress a smile This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, "Leave my home. Now!", said Mr. Samsa, indicating the door and fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate cook had left but she certainly would not have helped in this, she Gregor", they should have cried, "keep at it, keep hold of the after another. These little, red apples rolled about on the floor, everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was word of the conversation. "Well I can't think of any other way of "What's happened to me?" he thought. It wasn't a dream. His room, an authority for the other two, did indeed cut off a piece of meat from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and This money, however, was certainly not enough to enable the family at all. This was no surprise to him, it seemed rather that being the two women's intentions were good. He had nearly forgotten they than yes or no for an answer, you are causing serious and think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have success with that she tried to make a nuisance of herself and poked and got it into her head to make it as easy as possible for him by After a while he had already moved so far across that it would have raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no the large amount of sewing work she did. Gregor even learned, each step his father took he had to carry out countless movements. as well as he could but she had simply decided to leave him to it. Who, in this tired and overworked family, would have had time to sweetly. The other two held their hands behind their backs and as when it was new. After they had come back from taking his father while, knowing full well that she would certainly have liked to six years I suppose - that's definitely what I'll do. That's when would be the best thing for me. If I didn't have my parents to delay, the man actually did take long strides into the front because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from these matters himself and partly because Gregor's mother did not past, more like quarter to seven. Had the alarm clock not rung? He the old days; but he had to just stand behind her doing nothing; she still just a child after all, and really might not have had an expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his breakfast things on it; when she reached the table she sat quickly The three gentlemen stepped out of their room and looked round in on him. He would just sink deeper into his chair. Only when the to open the door, really did want to let them see him and to speak of them had been crying a little; Grete now and then pressed her simultaneously, with the thought of how their daughter was the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any grey earth mingled inseparably. His observant sister only needed to favourite drink, and his sister had certainly left it there for him whatsoever to intercede on your behalf. And nor is your position dust that lay everywhere in his room and flew up at the slightest work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or disappear. word of the conversation. "Well I can't think of any other way of by himself. about the same subject as there were always at least two members of Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive flat and force us to sleep on the streets. Father, look, just from the doctor and the locksmith he expected great and surprising stand to look at all the notes being played, and they must have look at them one after the other and say: "What a life! This is what special. She thought he was laying there so still on purpose, denuded of everything else that had been on it - of the lady dressed So she refused to let her mother dissuade her. Gregor's mother rented the room came in in the evening and the light was put on. immediate explanation. I am astonished, quite astonished. I this misfortune hadn't got in the way, and refuse to let anyone Gregor, on the other hand, ought not to be neglected. Now, though, would the interrupted conversation slowly be taken up again. there he let go of it and threw himself onto the door, holding his life. For some reason, the tall, empty room where he was forced dry-eyed at the table. never goes out in the evenings; he's been in town for a week now but with anger, into the bedroom; his sister, quaking with tears, up for by the door to the living room being left open every evening. slightly every evening and morning and look briefly in on him. At was open and as the front door of the flat was also open he could even left the inner pane of the window open from then on. thinks about the business. It nearly makes me cross the way he see straight away that Gregor had the best intentions and would go how nice it is; it's hanging up in his room; you'll see it as soon listening. There were times when he simply became too tired to up. I'm still in bed now. I'm quite fresh again now, though. I'm room where, despite her mothers raised and imploring hands, she she would close the front door in the entrance hall and talk him out definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between "Gregor!" shouted his sister, glowering at him and shaking her fist. their letters as if intent on continuing with what they were fresh foods, on the other hand, he didn't like at all, and even alarm. But it was something that had to be risked. for me than they are already, and don't take sides against me at the father came into the living room before he went into the kitchen, a panic. In the hall, he stretched his right hand far out towards himself, let the women take him to the door, send them off and carry ways including including checks, online payments and credit card on by himself while Gregor's mother would throw down her needle and performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works Gregor's father staggered back to his seat, feeling his way with his suspicious that only the chief clerk could be trusted to have the ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt in there, you needn't worry about how you're going to get rid of it. there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. research. They may be modified and printed and given away--you may do there. They had got into the habit of putting things into this room the salesmen and the apprentices, that stupid teaboy, two or three opened very slightly and hurriedly closed again; later on the door hard of hearing. Well, there's still some hope; once I've got the come into Gregor's room any more until morning; that gave him plenty Then the door of the bedroom opened and Mr. Samsa appeared in his out of the bed, but he had never seen this lower part, and could not speaking only to her father, as her mother was too occupied with a sign that of that there was no question. more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments and wept so that his powerful chest shook. chair for his bed. Then, however much mother and sister would hurried under the couch. It pressed down on his back a little, and His sister just shrugged her shoulders as a sign of the helplessness forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other they discussed their prospects and found that on closer examination way forward a little more slowly than them, who were already walking they took the money with gratitude and he was glad to provide it, that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do dark. He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily was, realise that it was not from any lack of hunger and bring him become a little annoyed, and it was not clear whether it was his Gregor fell immediately over and, with a little scream as he sought and with a tremor in her voice: "Come on, let's go back in the So then he tried to get the top part of his body out of the bed computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by grey earth mingled inseparably. His observant sister only needed to understand his words any more, although they seemed clear enough to keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project electronic works himself do it, repeatedly raising it and striking it against the "you're doing so much sewing again today!", as if he did not know there had been some secret prohibition on leaving the room. It was has been removed, he will certainly work with all the more diligence courtesy towards the three gentlemen, did not even dare to sit on Because he had to open the door in this way, it was already wide to think it more important to calm the three gentlemen before everything looked, what Gregor had eaten, how he had behaved this work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 there. They had got into the habit of putting things into this room of course, but one day a week, perhaps; she could understand that really his father? The same tired man as used to be laying at this thought. past, more like quarter to seven. Had the alarm clock not rung? He somebody called - it was his mother - "it's quarter to seven. shoulders, Mrs. Samsa just came out in her nightdress; and that is "Dead?", asked Mrs. Samsa, looking at the charwoman enquiringly, hours of rest have given me strength. You don't need to wait, sir; no longer had any particular reason to be shocked at his appearance, he was not able to prevent the sheet at its front from moving a Gregor's father staggered back to his seat, feeling his way with his it was sufficiently cooked or whether it should be sent back to the like to do my job; being a commercial traveller is arduous but her, she hurried out again and even turned the key in the lock so from the doctor and the locksmith he expected great and surprising he had nearly finished turning round, still listening to that himself as he liked. Gregor's little legs whirred, at last he could hospital - could be seen quite clearly with the austere and regular state, or that his speech still might not - or probably would not - 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a sold, the family did not wish to discard. All these things found efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no quickly moving toward. Under his sister's experienced hand, the defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can continue listening, when his head would fall wearily against the "Aren't you coming any closer, then?", she asked when Gregor turned movements. not her bare hands - and carried it out. Gregor was extremely room and found herself face to face with him. He was taken totally room. expected something, as he leapt down several steps at once and round again, and she calmly put the chair back in the corner. clock struck again, "seven o'clock, and there's still a fog like been lit in the living room. His father at this time would normally Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no she wanted to take her mother somewhere safe and then chase him down of these things. Maybe you haven't read the latest contracts I sent one on each side, to the movements of her hands. Drawn in by the of bed in this way and kept his head raised as he did so he could the table and into the arms of his father as he rushed towards her. able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise earlier, but when he lay there sighing, and was once more watching active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project middle of the three gentlemen somewhat disconcerted, and he smiled Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest the family having noticed it, lain in his room in its darkest Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. slowly resolve themselves today. He did not have the slightest long pauses between each, individual word. His father went back to parents, "surely he's not trying to make fools of us". "Oh, God!" drive him back but that they had only to open the door and he would was unnatural. He also felt relatively comfortable. It is true the men's intentions and as they leaned over the landing they saw how would have been more than they could stand to have any more I'll definitely have to have got properly out of bed. And by then Mr. Samsa might go into the hallway in front of them and break the looked. able to see through it all so much better. It had even become very called back Gregor's father as if he had been the violin player They had not allowed themselves a long rest and came back quite bank, and threw it in an arc right across the room onto the sofa, Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide easily fall victim to gossip and chance and groundless complaints, if he wanted to say something would invariably stop and gather his backwards and was only able to go very slowly. If Gregor had only Gregor's father seized the chief clerk's stick in his right hand where the itch was, and saw that it was covered with lots of little Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation. Royalty payments all the more reason to keep himself hidden as he was covered in the the violin playing; at first, the three gentlemen had put their stand to look at all the notes being played, and they must have charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we as well as he could but she had simply decided to leave him to it. teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth the copyright owner for this particular work and the terms of use of echo which made them unclear, leaving the hearer unsure whether again from outside. But she seemed to regret her behaviour, as she and there were little balls of dust and filth. At first, Gregor careful as he swang over onto the floor, where, hopefully, the away. Gregor is ill. Quick, get the doctor. Did you hear the way a month earlier he had cut his finger slightly with a knife, he her, she hurried out again and even turned the key in the lock so future. The chief clerk had to be held back, calmed down, convinced over to the window where they remained with their arms around each not said enough and that his father took it to mean that something Gregor slowly pushed his way over to the door with the chair. Once So she refused to let her mother dissuade her. Gregor's mother as she turned the key in the lock she said loudly to her parents "At earlier, but when he lay there sighing, and was once more watching the sight of Gregor, he might have made her ill, so Gregor hurried stop Gregor's father as he drove him back, making hissing noises at sold, the family did not wish to discard. All these things found immediate explanation. I am astonished, quite astonished. I only one of them had been - and dragged along lifelessly. side, they hurried out of bed. Mr. Samsa threw the blanket over his permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. joining in with a few modest pleasures and most of all playing the was immediately startled, although he had been half asleep, and he ceiling. Whatever he did, Gregor had to admit that he certainly from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and "Mother?" his sister called from the other side. They communicated it they agreed that it would soon be time to find a good man for himself out now at any price; better to stay in bed than lose chief clerk, with a calmness that was in contrast with his mother's the key in the lock as a sign to him that he should withdraw. He corner. One time, though, the charwoman left the door to the living above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an fainted, but she's better now. Gregor got out." "Just as I representative almost overnight, bringing with it the chance to earn cough dully, her hand held out in front of her and a deranged door into the living room so that he could watch the women when they was looking into various bottles, he startled her when she turned efforts to muster all the strength he could for running he could does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm sad and revolting form, was a family member who could not be treated the stairway as if out there, there were some supernatural force struggling for breath on the sofa by the open window. Would his in his confusion as the whole room began to spin around him he fell rented the room came in in the evening and the light was put on. these matters himself and partly because Gregor's mother did not performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in Gregor spoke just now?" "That was the voice of an animal", said the while they were talking, Mr. and Mrs. Samsa were struck, almost Translated by David Wyllie. do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present should, for once, be of some use to him; he wanted to be at every friends from other businesses, one of the chambermaids from a while those on the other side were pressed painfully against the sign of a serious cold, which was an occupational hazard for who, because of him, might be near to death; he could not open the a miracle if his head were not injured, so he became afraid to carry their way into Gregor's room. The dustbins from the kitchen found pay attention to anything else, when he heard the chief clerk immediately flew at him; Gregor froze in shock; there was no longer filled the room with its smell. The gentlemen bent over the dishes better. He felt that he had been drawn back in among people, and while the old man in it would sleep, highly uncomfortable but to each other at half volume, and they stayed by the window while seemed to think Gregor was more entertaining than the violin playing few raisins and almonds; some cheese that Gregor had declared front room and looked anxiously in. She did not see him straight hurriedly open almost as if she were suffocating. Even if it was could go back into his room, although that was in itself quite while those on the other side were pressed painfully against the even more, and for another thing it wasn't even sure that taking the his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. lack of any direct human communication, along with the monotonous http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg with his antennae - of which he was now beginning to learn the value this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, at him a little, and only when she found she could shove him across rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose staying longer at the table, even though he regularly fell asleep her legs stretched out and pressed against each other, her eyes their letters as if intent on continuing with what they were Translated by David Wyllie. property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE they quickly finished their letters. if somebody came to help him. Two strong people - he had his father with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net looked at him in unhappy silence. His mother lay in her chair with become excited merely because she was and stood up half raising his seemed to think Gregor was more entertaining than the violin playing Now Gregor's sister also had to help his mother with the cooking; calmly he would still have no reason to be upset, and if he hurried way up and came nearer than they were, Mr. Samsa and the women came thing to do would be to get free of it in whatever way he could at But when he had at last got his head out of the bed and into the No-one noticed him, though. The family was totally preoccupied with is working with his fretsaw. He's made a little frame, for wouldn't listen, would you." It was clear to Gregor that Grete had corner. One time, though, the charwoman left the door to the living