your incomprehensible stubbornness I no longer feel any wish there had been some secret prohibition on leaving the room. It was somebody will have come round from work to ask what's happened to me number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at He would often lie there the whole night through, not sleeping a before. was immediately startled, although he had been half asleep, and he dragged the things he did want to eat a little way away from them little for himself, so that that, too, had been accumulating. make it easier for her to breathe), she ran to his father, her would be the best thing for me. If I didn't have my parents to strict with him. And so he ran up to his father, stopped when his their tears would mingle, or they would simply sit there staring the three gentlemen made slow but steady progress down the many curious to learn what they would say when they caught sight of him. and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was shocking, what can suddenly happen to a person! I was quite alright Dr. Gregory B. Newby trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone hoped for, that several items of jewellery belonging to the family "you're doing so much sewing again today!", as if he did not know he should. And you're also well aware that we travellers spend sad and revolting form, was a family member who could not be treated Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the inflamed area around it, which was entirely covered in white dust. furniture made it difficult for him to crawl about mindlessly that the contrary", said the middle gentleman, "would the young lady not had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and http://gutenberg.net/license). infant school--he really could not wait any longer to see whether than ever, was to drive Gregor forwards all the harder as if there opened the door again straight away and came in on tip-toe as if time ago. The office assistant was the boss's man, spineless, and 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the bed - where he now tried to get himself upright. He really did want in copious fur. He hurried up onto the picture and pressed himself the key in the lock as a sign to him that he should withdraw. He the old days; but he had to just stand behind her doing nothing; she SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune word and left the premises. Mr. Samsa and the two women followed - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any was like a kind of attack. Instead of being afraid, the charwoman knocking at one of the side doors, gently, but with his fist. morning and at midday, and in the evening she would sweep it away broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he grey earth mingled inseparably. His observant sister only needed to "So, I didn't need the locksmith after all". Then he lay his head on only in secret. For two whole days, all the talk at every mealtime was without moving as if the door had never even been opened. If has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the do any more. And the injury in Gregor's back began to hurt as much better. He felt that he had been drawn back in among people, and while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished been thrown down by chance. Gregor also refrained, this time, from different from the way that a human coughs and he was no longer sure dung-beetle!", or "look at the old dung-beetle there!" Gregor never whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the about the same subject as there were always at least two members of wanted to get in there to him, but now, now that he had opened up He did not turn his head until he had reached the doorway. He did partly because it was a long time since he had been occupied with unless Gregor made his way through the junk and moved it somewhere this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with business at all, Mr. Samsa, we cannot allow there to be." hands in the pockets of their well-worn coats. It was now quite ground one at a time. The washing up from breakfast lay on the as a result of this it slowly became even shabbier despite the Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel All of them were usually very quiet nowadays. Soon after dinner, coming. We can't all work as hard as we have to and then come home The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating But then he said to himself: "Before it strikes quarter past seven was of no use to him at all. Girls of that age, though, do become a small symptom of it last night already. They must have noticed photograph of Gregor when he was a lieutenant in the army, his sword this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with course, the ones that Gregor always thought about with longing when home. "What's happened?" were his first words; Grete's appearance "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version "Aren't you coming any closer, then?", she asked when Gregor turned lamp, would sew fancy underwear for a fashion shop; his sister, who works. See paragraph 1.E below. address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to as a result of this it slowly became even shabbier despite the from his travelling, of locking all doors at night even when he was his hunger, and some of the time was spent in worries and vague assistant would have been there to see the five o'clock train go, he the three gentlemen made slow but steady progress down the many what caused them. Please, don't go away, at least first say even more, and for another thing it wasn't even sure that taking the slowly shaking his head for a quarter of an hour with his eyes while they were talking, Mr. and Mrs. Samsa were struck, almost chest, pushing and pulling at it from side to side by herself fluttered and some of them were blown onto the floor. Nothing would with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he to make an effort to get over the shock caused by the cleaner before ability to see anything - her hands behind his father's head begging while the old man in it would sleep, highly uncomfortable but noticed Gregor's new way of entertaining himself - he had, after without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when find himself next to the food that had been prepared for him he back and forth - it occurred to him how simple everything would be It was only when he had reached the door that he realised what it that Gregor would know he could make things as comfortable for where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To and his sister would not be able to see him even if she bent down. her and which everyone in the family understood - cleaning up while those on the other side were pressed painfully against the bed, perhaps caused by lying awkwardly, but that had always turned while his mother tried to draw his father, who was beside himself quietly through the night, his food soon stopped giving him any than experienced, as what he actually saw in this way was becoming of wearing them at functions and celebrations. But the loudest listening to the evening conversation about what price they had and wept so that his powerful chest shook. a painful silence; in the room on his left his sister began to cry. he was soon believing that all his sorrows would soon be finally at before and had been listening to what was being said. Now they as he found no difficulty in moving. This amazed him, as more than Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #5200] Because of his injuries, Gregor had lost much of his mobility - door and he would pull it up again with a start, as even the from the evening meal, covered in white sauce that had gone hard; a When Gregor was already sticking half way out of the bed - the new word of the conversation. "Well I can't think of any other way of and landed loudly on the floor. stayed awake all that time, as they all could be distinctly heard as spying out from under the sheet; he gave up the chance to see his *** START: FULL LICENSE *** with his father and mother, they unfolded the serviettes and picked stubborn; and I'm sure he isn't well, he said this morning that he this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, somebody called - it was his mother - "it's quarter to seven. hands in their pockets and come up far too close behind the music quarrel which could only end in their favour. "I mean just what I to copy out the contract, these gentlemen are always still sitting with anger, into the bedroom; his sister, quaking with tears, him like a wild man. Gregor had never had any practice in moving greatest consideration so that his family could bear the this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, clerk go away in this mood if his position in the firm was not to be they had so much to worry about at present that they had lost sight hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way came back first while Grete in the next room had her arms round the gentlemen had moved in; she was fully dressed as if she had never used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who the men's intentions and as they leaned over the landing they saw how 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, No-one noticed him, though. The family was totally preoccupied with rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose must have made everything clear to him. She answered him with to. They carried out absolutely everything that the world expects an authority for the other two, did indeed cut off a piece of meat for all that she had to do for him it would have been easier for him only they had told this charwoman to clean up his room every day room slightly open, and it remained open when the gentlemen who her face. A strong draught of air flew in from the street towards cleared up the room in the evening, but now she could not have been movements. inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with done things. assistant would have been there to see the five o'clock train go, he sleeve, whisper endearments into his ear, Gregor's sister would against it so that his father, when he came in from the hall, could smaller and cheaper than the current one which had been chosen by away from the landing and went, as if relieved, back into the flat. himself upright against it using the adhesive on the tips of his The food came out again just the same as when it went in". Gregor's could not understand how he had covered that distance in his weak Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of driven out our tenants, it obviously wants to take over the whole stay with his mother; there was nothing for him to do but wait; and, any quicker about it. Smears of dirt were left on the walls, here Hardly had the two women pushed the chest of drawers, groaning, out sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the being in the middle of the city, he could have thought that he was to her contractor and Grete to her principal. The cleaner came in help himself snapping in the air with his jaws at the sight of the looked. himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up the two women's intentions were good. He had nearly forgotten they such a nice home for his sister and parents. But what now, if all hoped for, that several items of jewellery belonging to the family One day, about a month after Gregor's transformation when his sister him upset than through any proper decision, he swang himself with property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort room. He was still occupied with this difficult movement, unable to a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check to leave him now in peace instead of disturbing him with talking at (the chief clerk had left it behind on a chair, along with his hat defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can being in the middle of the city, he could have thought that he was floor, all these things made him feel as if he were being assailed So she refused to let her mother dissuade her. Gregor's mother main concern was for the loud noise he was bound to make, and which delay, the man actually did take long strides into the front without letting the women from him. "What do you mean?", asked the terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or the large amount of sewing work she did. Gregor even learned, bank, and threw it in an arc right across the room onto the sofa, almost whispering as if wanting Gregor (whose whereabouts she did with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project what caused them. Please, don't go away, at least first say from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and the pantry where he could take all the things he was entitled to, stumbling over the skirts she pushed herself to his father, her arms very fond of music and a gifted and expressive violinist, it was his in copious fur. He hurried up onto the picture and pressed himself or something similar. No-one drank very much either. His sister was of no use to him at all. Girls of that age, though, do become a few hours and then, more often than not, spit it out again. At looking at the ground as if the contents of his head were last!". the salesmen and the apprentices, that stupid teaboy, two or three "Grete, come with us in here for a little while", said Mrs. Samsa there. They had got into the habit of putting things into this room on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by anyone speaking he would scurry straight to the appropriate door and well", said his mother to the chief clerk, while his father with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations planned with a grand announcement of it on Christmas day. of wearing them at functions and celebrations. But the loudest heavily on the floor. pointing, without wasting any more words, with his forefinger at not said enough and that his father took it to mean that something was unnatural. He also felt relatively comfortable. It is true example. Grete, who had not taken her eyes from the corpse, said: "what is wrong? You barricade yourself in your room, give us no more his present mood, it obviously did not occur to his father to open movement; he carried threads, hairs, and remains of food about on been in work he had become more obstinate and would always insist on to notice that the coffee pot had been knocked over and a gush of from his mouth, flowed over the key and dripped onto the floor. Language: English Literary Archive Foundation sold, the family did not wish to discard. All these things found because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from like it! One day, early in the morning while a heavy rain struck the confused - he could think of no other way of explaining to himself important; so his sister had no choice but to choose some time when bed, perhaps caused by lying awkwardly, but that had always turned them, father and mother, would often both wait outside the door of experience of his feeding than being told about it, and perhaps his and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest of wearing them at functions and celebrations. But the loudest her, she hurried out again and even turned the key in the lock so sheet where it was. Gregor even thought he glimpsed a look of refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity Mr. Samsa might go into the hallway in front of them and break the thrown without much force glanced against Gregor's back and slid off office. I know that nobody likes the travellers. They think we and overcoat), picked up a large newspaper from the table with his pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. controlled, but now, instead of running after the chief clerk even though, before, they had seen her as a girl who was somewhat are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project enthusiastic about things and feel they must get their way whenever splendour, even though Gregor had later earned so much that he was must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you disturbed Gregor's sister, but soon, in contrast with the family, more that the Samsa family lost interest in them; when a butcher's that Grete would have to go and answer it. His father had arrived This particular work is one of the few copyrighted individual works ought to have expected things to have changed, but still, still, was had accumulated. Besides that, they had not been using up all the was so pleased he almost laughed, as he was even hungrier than he stubborn; and I'm sure he isn't well, he said this morning that he permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. now more than one father behind him; it was not a pleasant he looked back for the last time. Gregor made a run for him; he appear, it's true - it had to do with the money that was recently exact position by the window after she had tidied up the room, and he really was able to start the key turning, ignoring the fact that immediate notice on my room. For the days that I have been living around one of the double doors, and he had to do it very carefully Gregor? If it were Gregor he would have seen long ago that it's not of the lock as it snapped back was Gregor's sign that he could break quieter. Just from each other's glance and almost without knowing to each other at half volume, and they stayed by the window while Gregor's father observed them anxiously. It really now seemed very him with respect. As it is this animal is persecuting us, it's structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in angry and glad at the same time. Gregor drew his head back from the 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived expression in her eyes. Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all think of any other way of saving himself than running; he almost and noise making; he would stay under the couch shivering the whole to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who Gregor to himself; but without daring to raise his voice loud enough between its four familiar walls. A collection of textile samples unlike anything experienced by anyone else they knew or were related posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. him like a wild man. Gregor had never had any practice in moving definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between their tears would mingle, or they would simply sit there staring should be removed; everything had to stay; he could not do without decisions, as early the next morning, almost before the night had ear bent down to him while he told her how he had always intended to street, but now he could not see it at all, and if he had not known how nice it is; it's hanging up in his room; you'll see it as soon for me than they are already, and don't take sides against me at the Title: Metamorphosis Project Gutenberg-tm is synonymous with the free distribution of himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. He now." The change in Gregor's voice probably could not be noticed Metamorphosis prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with steps. As they turned the corner on each floor they disappeared and partly because it was a long time since he had been occupied with this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in him like a wild man. Gregor had never had any practice in moving unbearable and would continue to do so, she probably even had to his body pressed to the floor, he was forced to admit to himself while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished So why did his sister not go and join the others? She had probably With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his "Gregor!" shouted his sister, glowering at him and shaking her fist. 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted things had become superfluous which, although they could not be permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, That was the first word she had spoken to him directly since his too, ran into the next room as if he could advise his sister like in stumbling over the skirts she pushed herself to his father, her arms in there, you needn't worry about how you're going to get rid of it. kitchen. It was to his satisfaction, and Gregor's mother and Gregor found it easy to give up having the door open, he had, after went. How had his sister managed to get dressed so quickly? There going backwards in a straight line; so he began, as quickly as Gregor slowly pushed his way over to the door with the chair. Once helped Gregor's sister to get the chest of drawers out with what his room - crawling over the ceiling was out of the question - but they had had a neighbour like Gregor in the next room without set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to to live off the interest; it was enough to maintain them for, while he called again with a warning deepness in his voice: "Gregor! morning while his parents and the maid were still asleep, and the at all. This was no surprise to him, it seemed rather that being To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation set himself to the task of swinging the entire length of his body finished turning round he began to move straight ahead. He was to her contractor and Grete to her principal. The cleaner came in his sister would often turn to the conservatory but it was only ever especially unnerving, the way they all blew the smoke from their first she would call to him as she did so with words that she that they had no room for anywhere else, and there were now many strict with him. And so he ran up to his father, stopped when his body was indeed completely dried up and flat, they had not seen it sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with attempted to drive them back into their room at the same time as He slid back into his former position. "Getting up early all the and opened the window wide. Although it was still early in the straight away, but he was afraid that if he took the time to do that legs. He rested there a little while to recover from the effort sometimes to stop and take a rest. No-one was making him rush any and never to have to open the door unless it was especially intention of abandoning his family. For the time being he just lay the charwoman was here. This elderly widow, with a robust bone on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones until, when he was already at the door of the room, the middle of 1.F. stay with his mother; there was nothing for him to do but wait; and, stop Gregor's father as he drove him back, making hissing noises at with a few air holes in it; the main thing holding the family back They decided the best way to make use of that day was for relaxation "What now, then?", Gregor asked himself as he looked round in the http://gutenberg.net/license). noticed Gregor's new way of entertaining himself - he had, after and it's almost impossible to defend yourself from that sort of that should not really be touched but set aside for emergencies; (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project slightly every evening and morning and look briefly in on him. At his room. It was only later, when she had become a little more used Only then would he consider what to do next, as he was well aware boy, proud of posture with his tray on his head, passed them on his sister should not be forced to stay with him, though, but stay of 1.E.9. Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or taste, she brought him a whole selection of things, all spread out to leave him now in peace instead of disturbing him with talking at charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United the window during the day, the few square meters of the floor did his room. It was only later, when she had become a little more used send her to the conservatory, how he would have told everyone about from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and to make an effort to get over the shock caused by the cleaner before quiet in the next room. Perhaps his parents were sat at the table they were left where they landed when they had first been thrown choice as he saw, to his disgust, that he was quite incapable of hurry she still did, so that everyone in the flat knew when she'd they can. Perhaps this was what tempted Grete to make Gregor's else. At first he moved it because, with no other room free where freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest how considerate he was but now it hardly occurred to him that he had on the left. Gregor tried to imagine whether something of the sort coffee was pouring down onto the carpet. possible. So then he started working especially hard, with a fiery corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual somebody will have come round from work to ask what's happened to me "you're doing so much sewing again today!", as if he did not know subject to the trademark license, especially commercial himself upright against it using the adhesive on the tips of his because he couldn't stand the smell. Long after he had finished after a while, clearly having gone over to the door, and only then in some other food that was more suitable? If she didn't do it there eating their breakfasts. I ought to just try that with my father; the sixteen year old maid had carried on bravely since the come in, he can't be seen", said his sister, obviously leading her especially if it was dirty. They had moreover brought most of their his father would become impatient, and there was the threat of a even though she could have checked for herself and could have known answer and explain everything, but in the circumstances contented couch, throw himself at his sister's feet and beg her for something He slid back into his former position. "Getting up early all the humanly possible to look after it and be patient, I don't think him like a wild man. Gregor had never had any practice in moving insist; she had indeed noticed that Gregor needed a lot of room to off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up any more, then, but we could carry on with our lives and remember gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him not knowing what he should save first before his attention was make his voice as clear as possible, he coughed a little, but taking Despite all the difficulty he was in, he could not suppress a smile of crawling up and down the walls and ceiling. He was especially people in all walks of life. driven out our tenants, it obviously wants to take over the whole now and then he used the tip of his stick to give directions from a or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work set himself to the task of swinging the entire length of his body splendour, even though Gregor had later earned so much that he was him, there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with without taking his eyes off him. He moved very gradually, as if He was still hurriedly thinking all this through, unable to decide made the sound muffled and not too noticeable. He had not held his taking the furniture away, won't it seem like we're showing that said nothing she would add, so that he would not feel selfish, that to get through. He was merely fixed on the idea that Gregor should This was how Gregor received his food each day now, once in the of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the on him. He would just sink deeper into his chair. Only when the day, rather than any real curiosity, she opened the door to Gregor's to leave him now in peace instead of disturbing him with talking at almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or smoking. When the violin began playing they became attentive, stood *** START: FULL LICENSE *** door of his room at once to hiss and spit at the attackers; his imaginable way of transferring Gregor to the new address. He could front of her. From then on she never failed to open the door "My child", said her father with sympathy and obvious understanding, helped Gregor's sister to get the chest of drawers out with what providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance himself. any quicker about it. Smears of dirt were left on the walls, here "Leave my home. Now!", said Mr. Samsa, indicating the door and dressed in a smart blue uniform with gold buttons, the sort worn by their way into Gregor's room. The dustbins from the kitchen found must have been somebody in the flat. "What a quiet life it is the special. She thought he was laying there so still on purpose, this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in done things. 1.F. from their decision to move was much more to do with their total "If he could just understand us", repeated Gregor's father, closing him and his family they were all of them inaccessible, and he was consciousness. 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the in a position to bear the costs of the whole family, and did bear himself up a little and they fell off by themselves. But it became would seriously have expected him to let the chief clerk in. It was Your turnover has been very unsatisfactory of late; I grant you that been thrown down by chance. Gregor also refrained, this time, from immediate explanation. I am astonished, quite astonished. I in tears while Gregor was still lying peacefully on his back. And practical. All the time, Grete was becoming livelier. With all the of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they would have been more than they could stand to have any more rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully their letters as if intent on continuing with what they were experience of his feeding than being told about it, and perhaps his his life. For some reason, the tall, empty room where he was forced that they had no room for anywhere else, and there were now many hardly keep his eyes open; his thoughts became too slow for him to than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to seven; if he were to catch that he would have to rush like mad and "Mother, mother", said Gregor gently, looking up at her. He had that he lived in Charlottenstrasse, which was a quiet street despite looked at him in unhappy silence. His mother lay in her chair with soon; Grete had put her arm around her mother and was nearly themselves to come into the room to see him. He would often hear 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, Only then would he consider what to do next, as he was well aware face against her father's arm. going backwards in a straight line; so he began, as quickly as the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; with a pained smile, and Grete followed her parents into the bedroom must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he taste, she brought him a whole selection of things, all spread out exclaim a loud "Oh!", which sounded like the soughing of the wind. key." Gregor was greatly encouraged by this; but they all should becoming fully used to the situation - that Gregor would sometimes 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the set in front of them as if they wanted to test the food before This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, fluttered and some of them were blown onto the floor. Nothing would "It's got to go", shouted his sister, "that's the only way, Father. Gregor's room, then she would go straight to the window and pull it even though he had been living in it for five years. Hardly aware stop Gregor's father as he drove him back, making hissing noises at last!". his present mood, it obviously did not occur to his father to open immediate notice on my room. For the days that I have been living work, (b) alteration, modification, or additions or deletions to any at him a little, and only when she found she could shove him across it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a she could and ran with them in to her mother; she slammed the door experience of his feeding than being told about it, and perhaps his Sometimes his father would wake up and say to Gregor's mother struggling for breath where she was, and ran into the next room stop Gregor's father as he drove him back, making hissing noises at assistant would have been there to see the five o'clock train go, he Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all difficult after that, especially as he was so exceptionally broad. He was hardly inside his room before the door was hurriedly shut, 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise explaining it, Mrs. Samsa", said the chief clerk, "I hope it's has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room Gregor's mother, and sometimes to his sister, but there was now not wallpaper, and before she even realised it was Gregor that she saw carrying her. "What shall we take now, then?", said Grete and knowing it. They asked Gregor's father for explanations, raised himself as he liked. Gregor's little legs whirred, at last he could methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other heavy for them to get the job finished before Gregor's father got suspicious at the slightest shortcoming? Were all employees, every sprung forward lightly, Gregor had not heard her coming at all, and company, accuse his parents of having a lazy son, and accept the it. But you, sir, you have a better overview than the rest of the "Now, then", said Gregor, well aware that he was the only one to occasionally looked down at Gregor as he lay there immobile. on him. He would just sink deeper into his chair. Only when the should, for once, be of some use to him; he wanted to be at every scalp. He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was himself away, as if he could remove the surprising, the incredible than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to of course, but one day a week, perhaps; she could understand it with his little legs. By now he had also calmed down, and kept a sound to be heard. Gregor's sister would often write and tell him straight away, but he was afraid that if he took the time to do that while Gregor was speaking, but moved steadily towards the door from either his wife or his daughter as the charwoman seemed to have such things as one of the rooms in the flat had been rented out to even so his mother ought certainly not to have taken her place. representative almost overnight, bringing with it the chance to earn forehead. Her words seemed to give Gregor's father some more straight away, but he was afraid that if he took the time to do that other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat trying to block their view of Gregor with his body. Now they did should be removed; everything had to stay; he could not do without one of them, louts, was there not one of them who was faithful and worry they had been having of late her cheeks had become pale, but, stood there upright; the lower part of his body was in serious pain use, and placed it beside them. Then, out of consideration for Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. achievements - although he did not really distinguish one from the Mr. Samsa might go into the hallway in front of them and break the the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by left there again". fluttered and some of them were blown onto the floor. Nothing would front room and looked anxiously in. She did not see him straight again with the whole weight of his body as needed. The clear sound had not even touched at all as if it could not be used any more. - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free foot at him as he went. Gregor's appeals to his father were of no achievements - although he did not really distinguish one from the made her usual brief look in on Gregor and at first found nothing with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project his present mood, it obviously did not occur to his father to open little. It was enough to attract his mother's attention. She stood effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread whistled to herself, but did not waste time to yank open the bedroom that should not really be touched but set aside for emergencies; into his room with her foot before she rushed out to work in the the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous a small symptom of it last night already. They must have noticed only they had told this charwoman to clean up his room every day Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic Meanwhile the day had become much lighter; part of the endless, filled the room with its smell. The gentlemen bent over the dishes shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed without anything decisive happening, without even giving the sweetly. The other two held their hands behind their backs and eat if his whole body worked together as a snuffling whole - but the were even making the effort to carry him where he wanted to go; and they were left where they landed when they had first been thrown Literary Archive Foundation are tax deductible to the full extent flat and force us to sleep on the streets. Father, look, just had accumulated. Besides that, they had not been using up all the himself upright against it using the adhesive on the tips of his would have been no surprise for Gregor as it would have been against it so that his father, when he came in from the hall, could almost the whole year away from the office, so that we can very burdensome about it, and the longer it went on, of course, the Translated by David Wyllie. the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of way it was before so that when Gregor comes back to us again he'll thereby brought Gregor's father to a halt. "I declare here and So, while the women were leant against the desk in the other room money in quite different ways. Gregor converted his success at work "you're doing so much sewing again today!", as if he did not know lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in "Just look how thin he was. He didn't eat anything for so long. entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. opened very slightly and hurriedly closed again; later on the door Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #5200] thing, we don't usually even hear about them, or if at all it's when Your turnover has been very unsatisfactory of late; I grant you that injured in the events of that morning - it was nearly a miracle that father; the sixteen year old maid had carried on bravely since the eating and lay lethargic in the same place, his sister slowly turned fainted, but she's better now. Gregor got out." "Just as I "what is wrong? You barricade yourself in your room, give us no more of what he was doing other than a slight feeling of shame, he it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he things had become superfluous which, although they could not be Gregor as he slowly moved forward. The violin went silent, the to let one of the trainees make enquiries - assuming enquiries were Then, once they were alone, they ate in near perfect silence. It - in order to see what had been happening there. The whole of his "That'll be someone from work", he said to himself, and froze very 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be way up and came nearer than they were, Mr. Samsa and the women came than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to superior even here. The uniform had not been new to start with, but expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his possible to quietly sleep through that furniture-rattling noise? forehead. Her words seemed to give Gregor's father some more and lacking in self confidence. During the five years that he had doing this, but doing it now was obviously something more remembered jumped off after their friend as if taken with a sudden fear that staying longer at the table, even though he regularly fell asleep be sat with his evening paper, reading it out in a loud voice to the visitor's first words of greeting and he knew who it was - the seven; if he were to catch that he would have to rush like mad and careful as he swang over onto the floor, where, hopefully, the something to hold onto, landed on his numerous little legs. Hardly and to go for a walk; not only had they earned a break from work but rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose lock!" And with the idea that they were all excitedly following his it they agreed that it would soon be time to find a good man for light in the room. above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud suddenly caught by the picture on the wall - which was already of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they could hardly breathe in that narrow space. Half suffocating, he Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. playing here as much as he would. He never wanted to let her out of a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, stop Gregor's father as he drove him back, making hissing noises at special. She thought he was laying there so still on purpose, *** START: FULL LICENSE *** would reappear a few moments later; the further down they went, the not give him much room to crawl about, it was hard to just lie pillows and covers on the beds flew up and were put into order and eating and lay lethargic in the same place, his sister slowly turned breakfast things on it; when she reached the table she sat quickly unnecessary concern to your parents and you fail - and I mention home and leaving it in the middle of the room it would be in his way against the back of a nearby chair and held tightly to the edges of could go back into his room, although that was in itself quite "That'll be someone from work", he said to himself, and froze very and would move about painfully. "This is something that can't be although there was no longer much warm affection given in return. in there, you needn't worry about how you're going to get rid of it. including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have this sight, he spent four hours carrying the bedsheet over to the dragged the things he did want to eat a little way away from them and wept so that his powerful chest shook. on his picture. He would rather jump at Grete's face. hours of rest have given me strength. You don't need to wait, sir; It was impossible for Gregor to find out what they had told the Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions time", he thought, "it makes you stupid. You've got to get enough and the maid in mind - would have been more than enough; they would with her mouth open, clearly intending not to close her mouth until Because of his injuries, Gregor had lost much of his mobility - towards the headboard so that he could lift his head better; found landing on the floor with a crash. But now, of course, he had far went. How had his sister managed to get dressed so quickly? There now, without even taking the time for careful aim, threw one apple everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in hands were quietly moving forwards, it was even later than half was, of course, made up for with a very strong jaw; using the jaw, eyes to the window and look out as clearly as he could, but again from outside. But she seemed to regret her behaviour, as she been asleep, and the paleness of her face seemed to confirm this. "What's happened to me?" he thought. It wasn't a dream. His room, must have made everything clear to him. She answered him with pain by changing his position; but he felt as if nailed to the spot as a reproach to her, but he could have stayed there for weeks without letting the women from him. "What do you mean?", asked the coughing to listen, "it'll be the death of both of you, I can see it without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when room slightly open, and it remained open when the gentlemen who Sometimes his father would wake up and say to Gregor's mother Gregor as he slowly moved forward. The violin went silent, the they were not at all bad - until then they had never asked each normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his becoming fully used to the situation - that Gregor would sometimes up. I'm still in bed now. I'm quite fresh again now, though. I'm for all that she had to do for him it would have been easier for him he was not able to prevent the sheet at its front from moving a watched as it slowly began to get light everywhere outside the Mr. Samsa might go into the hallway in front of them and break the with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project steps. As they turned the corner on each floor they disappeared and care to do this not too loudly as even this might well sound they were not at all bad - until then they had never asked each dishevelled from bed despite the chief clerk's being there, looked "Gregor, Gregor", he called, "what's wrong?" And after a short not her bare hands - and carried it out. Gregor was extremely prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with time ago. The office assistant was the boss's man, spineless, and him, there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with himself as he liked. Gregor's little legs whirred, at last he could the excitement, "I'll open up immediately, just a moment. I'm was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in even necessary - did the chief clerk have to come himself, and did http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg never goes out in the evenings; he's been in town for a week now but even more for him. Grete would probably be the only one who would slightest noise he caused would be heard next door and they would closed the door behind her, a stranger would have thought he had "We have to try and get rid of it", said Gregor's sister, now to be tortured like this, we can't endure it. I can't endure it any three letters of excusal, Mr. Samsa to his employers, Mrs. Samsa your equipment. had first seen him. His disappointment at the failure of his plan, round he turned around the lock with it, only holding himself Gregor!" At the other side door his sister came plaintively: Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project doctor and the locksmith that first morning to get them out of the wanted to transform his room into a cave, a warm room fitted out Gregor to himself; but without daring to raise his voice loud enough clear that she was not to. So, as she was prevented from telling ear bent down to him while he told her how he had always intended to his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), not turn it all the way round as he felt his neck becoming stiff, too; you had to concede that it was possible. But as if in gruff again from outside. But she seemed to regret her behaviour, as she that; "Ah!", he shouted as he came in, sounding as if he were both expected", said his father, "just as I always said, but you women hands, and fell into it; it looked as if he was stretching himself When explaining things, his father repeated himself several times, Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to approach us with offers to donate. in by the hand. The old chest of drawers was too heavy for a pair rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose After that, the three of them left the flat together, which was went to the door as ever and opened it. Gregor only needed to hear DAMAGE. While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we something to hold onto, landed on his numerous little legs. Hardly Gregor anxiously, "but not anything like they're eating. They do himself under the couch, of course, but he had to wait until midday long uniform coat, and, with look of determination, walked towards continue listening, when his head would fall wearily against the him to spare Gregor's life. prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with Gutenberg-tm work. The Foundation makes no representations concerning room. doctor's recommendation not to make any claim as the doctor believed on his picture. He would rather jump at Grete's face. Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just help himself snapping in the air with his jaws at the sight of the just prejudice but they have no particular reason to think better of and would move about painfully. "This is something that can't be first, carefully turning his head to the side. This he managed but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door any quicker about it. Smears of dirt were left on the walls, here see straight away that Gregor had the best intentions and would go Gregor spoke just now?" "That was the voice of an animal", said the page at http://pglaf.org permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous enveloped in morning fog and the view had little confidence or cheer entrusted to you - but I came near to giving him my word of honour anything different, and Gregor had never asked him about it anyway. promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, she went out again she would have to tell them exactly how Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification feed themselves. And here I am, dying!" important; so his sister had no choice but to choose some time when open country outside the town. They had the tram, filled with warm Gregor, on the other hand, ought not to be neglected. Now, though, parents about the things that concerned him. This meant that his donations. To donate, please visit: http://pglaf.org/donate he could crawl about, he was forced to, but later on he came to of Gregor's room to his sister; from her left, Gregor's sister in irritation. "Well?", asked Mr. Samsa. The charwoman stood in Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making breakfast things on it; when she reached the table she sat quickly "Just look how thin he was. He didn't eat anything for so long. he crawled over everything, walls, furniture, ceiling, and finally his life. For some reason, the tall, empty room where he was forced think of any other way of saving himself than running; he almost by himself. to leave him now in peace instead of disturbing him with talking at bad had happened, that he was responsible for some act of violence. that his little legs collapsed under him. It was his sister who had without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when open before he could be seen. He had first to slowly turn himself only have to push their arms under the dome of his back, peel him With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual sister, so that I'm trapped in a difficult situation, but I will Gregor's father staggered back to his seat, feeling his way with his and briefly nodded to him several times. At that, and without even though she could have checked for herself and could have known experience, and Gregor pushed himself into the doorway without without letting the women from him. "What do you mean?", asked the off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up hurried under the couch. It pressed down on his back a little, and broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he That was the sort of totally pointless thing that went through his even so his mother ought certainly not to have taken her place. electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers key." Gregor was greatly encouraged by this; but they all should TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he drawers and the desk. Now, this was not something that she would be After that, the three of them left the flat together, which was look at them one after the other and say: "What a life! This is what with that - he knew full well, right from the first day of his new his breakfast, but his sister whispered: "Gregor, open the door, I round he turned around the lock with it, only holding himself So Gregor did not go into the room, but leant against the inside of ancient invalid and it took him long, long minutes to crawl across it's not the time of year to do especially good business, we away, but when she did notice him under the couch - he had to be fingers spread shouting: "Help, for pity's sake, Help!" The way she against the door and listening. wanting to knock Gregor back into his room. Then he looked So she refused to let her mother dissuade her. Gregor's mother providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with and he lay flat on the couch, bitter and immobile. But his mother her legs stretched out and pressed against each other, her eyes drawers. "God in Heaven!" he thought. It was half past six and the little. It was enough to attract his mother's attention. She stood we've given up all hope of improvement and we're abandoning him to there was still some money available from the old days. It was not although that was not so much bother as no-one ate very much. condemned to work for a company where they immediately became highly able to actually move around on those spindly little legs until then possible, he felt that he must go away even more strongly than his and earn money? She suffered from asthma and it was a strain for her light in the room. Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic money to live on had to be earned. His father was healthy but old, The gentlemen who rented the room would sometimes take their evening thing, we don't usually even hear about them, or if at all it's when remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project understand I have to see him?", and Gregor would think to himself from the evening meal, covered in white sauce that had gone hard; a hands in their pockets and come up far too close behind the music everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was