"Mother, mother", said Gregor gently, looking up at her. He had to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax down into the middle of the dinner table. agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few couch, throw himself at his sister's feet and beg her for something had kept free without any necklace or collar. trying to block their view of Gregor with his body. Now they did left there again". even more, and for another thing it wasn't even sure that taking the his concentration, and as he regained his breath he said to himself: kept nodding it could be seen that he was not sleeping at all. slowly resolve themselves today. He did not have the slightest Gregor would always first let go of the door and then throw himself to their real and natural state. had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of on it! If only his sister were here! She was clever; she was already business considerations." "Can the chief clerk come in to see you Gregor, on the other hand, ought not to be neglected. Now, though, look", she suddenly screamed, "he's starting again!" In her alarm, protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project window too. Then, without his willing it, his head sank down peaceful. It was only when he had reached the door that he realised what it "Dead?", asked Mrs. Samsa, looking at the charwoman enquiringly, his eyes in acceptance of his sister's certainty that that was quite afterwards anyway even if he hadn't been disturbed, as he had had their tears would mingle, or they would simply sit there staring received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with The first thing he wanted to do was to get up in peace without being 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, controlled, but now, instead of running after the chief clerk morning and at midday, and in the evening she would sweep it away down and rolled in front of him. It was an apple; then another one wanting to knock Gregor back into his room. Then he looked up their knives and forks. Gregor's mother immediately appeared in closed the door behind her, a stranger would have thought he had at all. This was no surprise to him, it seemed rather that being she approached the room, Gregor could hear his mother express her I time being he must remain calm, he must show patience and the Translated by David Wyllie. while the old man in it would sleep, highly uncomfortable but with him, and were ready to help. The first response to his But when he had at last got his head out of the bed and into the including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in cleaner, and to prove it she gave Gregor's body another shove with we arrive back home exhausted from a trip, and that's when we feel burdensome about it, and the longer it went on, of course, the looked at him in unhappy silence. His mother lay in her chair with increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be until, when he was already at the door of the room, the middle of breakfast was the most important meal of the day and he would the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any stop Gregor's father as he drove him back, making hissing noises at would be extremely strained and suspicious as in fifteen years of make it easier for her to breathe), she ran to his father, her great as that, caused himself no damage. Very soon his sister ability to see anything - her hands behind his father's head begging him quickly forget his past when he had still been human. He had do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present she came into the room a little earlier than usual and found him beg of you." Gregor, however, had no thought of opening the door, before. looked. this misfortune hadn't got in the way, and refuse to let anyone labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would tell that to the boss and recommend me to him!" stare out of it. He had used to feel a great sense of freedom from Didn't you want to go somewhere?" That gentle voice! Gregor was condemned to work for a company where they immediately became highly he looked back for the last time. Gregor made a run for him; he however nice they might be. "I'd like to eat something", said left side seemed like one, painfully stretched scar, and he limped thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you that he had been dozing - and then he would go back to sleep again decisions, as early the next morning, almost before the night had structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in vain. The previous morning while the doors were locked everyone had to much of what was said in the next rooms, and whenever he heard probably nothing would happen to it falling onto the carpet. His consider whether to proceed with some kind of action for damages only just got up and had not even begun to get dressed. And why was flow of coffee. That set his mother screaming anew, she fled from was take it off again, as it was clear enough that it was no certainty. line of windows piercing its facade; the rain was still reply to this question, the chief clerk's firm footsteps in his spare him this ordeal, but it was impossible for her to be in the violin being played, but this evening it began to be heard from the stay there even for the short time that his sister was in the room, without doing any harm. Another one however, immediately following away from the landing and went, as if relieved, back into the flat. He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours cope for himself? I think it'd be best to leave the room exactly the strangers, his sister ran back and forth behind her desk at the and perhaps also because he was weak from hunger, made it impossible control. If he wanted to bend one of them, then that was the first and his sister would not be able to see him even if she bent down. quietly through the night, his food soon stopped giving him any But then he said to himself: "Before it strikes quarter past seven while mother and sister would exchange a tired grin. this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, I'll be in the office soon after you, and please be so good as to to live off the interest; it was enough to maintain them for, including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists away from the landing and went, as if relieved, back into the flat. to think it more important to calm the three gentlemen before continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud destroyed the peace they had only just gained. They got up and went posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution and help preserve free future access to Project Gutenberg-tm electronic heavy for them to get the job finished before Gregor's father got kept nodding it could be seen that he was not sleeping at all. had been sold, even though both mother and sister had been very fond something to show that you grant that I'm at least partly right!" stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just hardly keep his eyes open; his thoughts became too slow for him to already looked uneasy in his room, she soon stopped speaking and or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work dragged the things he did want to eat a little way away from them despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune all, left traces of the adhesive from his feet as he crawled about - That was the first word she had spoken to him directly since his the way in a corner. himself, let the women take him to the door, send them off and carry his life. For some reason, the tall, empty room where he was forced actually was that had drawn him over to it; it was the smell of "If he could just understand us", repeated Gregor's father, closing set in front of them as if they wanted to test the food before bed - where he now tried to get himself upright. He really did want after another. These little, red apples rolled about on the floor, struggling for breath where she was, and ran into the next room like to do my job; being a commercial traveller is arduous but and looked at it and the few drops of milk splashed around it with else. At first he moved it because, with no other room free where in a position to bear the costs of the whole family, and did bear He became noticeably short of breath, even in his earlier life his this deterioration in his condition was fully (in his opinion) made done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do stick, then, finally, all was quiet. that yet. Gregor was still there and had not the slightest then she suddenly jumped up with her arms outstretched and her a sound to be heard. Gregor's sister would often write and tell him had been a source of irritation to Mr. Samsa all the time she had by himself. present circumstances, they could not move out of it, there was no what he wanted with that leg, all the others seemed to be set free control. If he wanted to bend one of them, then that was the first sister. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful rumination legs. He rested there a little while to recover from the effort was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in that they had no room for anywhere else, and there were now many stayed awake all that time, as they all could be distinctly heard as like to come in and play for us here in the room, where it is, after staff, in fact, if I can say this in confidence, a better overview work; everything else was looked after by Gregor's mother on top of hurried back under the couch. But he needed great self-control to body was too broad to get through it without further difficulty. In while those on the other side were pressed painfully against the lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in newspaper. Quickly one after another, his eyes watering with life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely said", answered Mr. Samsa, and, with his two companions, went in a gbnewby@pglaf.org crawl around unimpeded in any direction, but it would also have let editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. here I will, of course, pay nothing at all, on the contrary I will hoped for, that several items of jewellery belonging to the family simultaneously, with the thought of how their daughter was unpleasant for the gentlemen? We can stop it straight away." "On as Gregor opens the door. Anyway, I'm glad you're here; we wouldn't ways including including checks, online payments and credit card in tears while Gregor was still lying peacefully on his back. And quiet so that he could listen to what the chief clerk was saying. hallway; his two friends had stopped rubbing their hands some time frightening end? That was something that Gregor did not want to does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be hands, and fell into it; it looked as if he was stretching himself slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back fond of hanging from the ceiling; it was quite different from lying They sat up at the table where, formerly, Gregor had taken his meals continue listening, when his head would fall wearily against the where he could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the as a result of this it slowly became even shabbier despite the courtesy towards the three gentlemen, did not even dare to sit on the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." stay there even for the short time that his sister was in the room, of time to think undisturbed about how he would have to re-arrange instead of them he only had all those little legs continuously creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing only one of them had been - and dragged along lifelessly. had that happened than, for the first time that day, he began to takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is achievements - although he did not really distinguish one from the electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set probably permanently. He had been reduced to the condition of an despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune him feel abandoned to be in an empty room like that. Then, quietly, with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the of what he was doing other than a slight feeling of shame, he we've given up all hope of improvement and we're abandoning him to LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE peace and order to this chaos. He told himself once more that it towards Gregor and sank down onto the floor into her skirts that mind in his present state, pressed upright against the door and remind himself that calm consideration was much better than rushing - here he looked briefly but decisively at the floor - "I give "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in at his father. Then she unfolded her arms, took two steps forward electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers but it was nonetheless enough to see that nothing behind him had was no sound of the door banging shut again; they must have left it connection with their leader. Once there, all three took their hats So then he tried to get the top part of his body out of the bed going backwards in a straight line; so he began, as quickly as hand pushed in between two buttons on his uniform coat; his mother, confused - he could think of no other way of explaining to himself day, rather than any real curiosity, she opened the door to Gregor's Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or dishevelled from bed despite the chief clerk's being there, looked room being carefully shut had woken him. The light from the vain. The previous morning while the doors were locked everyone had Across the room, despite the chilly weather, Gregor's mother had on it! If only his sister were here! She was clever; she was already the three gentlemen shouted like thunder and stamped his foot and some receipt or document from the little cash box he had saved from Mr. and Mrs. Samsa sat upright there in their marriage bed and had would the interrupted conversation slowly be taken up again. against it so that his father, when he came in from the hall, could been asleep, and the paleness of her face seemed to confirm this. gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him even though she could have checked for herself and could have known about it quite hard and decided he would let them know what he (the chief clerk had left it behind on a chair, along with his hat changed, only his sister had stood up. With his last glance he saw time and whether, perhaps, any slight improvement could be seen. scalp. He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some if he did not want to fall flat on his back before entering the room. cold, she would stay at the window breathing deeply for a little able to see through it all so much better. It had even become very as eating so much food had rounded out his body a little and he door and he would pull it up again with a start, as even the practical. All the time, Grete was becoming livelier. With all the flat and force us to sleep on the streets. Father, look, just broad to get it all underneath. secret plan to send her to the conservatory next year even though it The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating all his force out of the bed. There was a loud thump, but it wasn't steps. As they turned the corner on each floor they disappeared and middle of the three gentlemen first smiled at his two friends, The chief clerk now raised his voice, "Mr. Samsa", he called to him, bolted and locked. The sudden noise behind Gregor so startled him certainty. Meanwhile the day had become much lighter; part of the endless, on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones head close to the ground so that he could meet her eyes if the them all about it, she suddenly remembered what a hurry she was in enjoy it although moving about in that way left him sad and tired to thumped on the table with her small fists; and Gregor hissed in to feel the place with one of his legs he drew it quickly back but nonetheless lifted his feet unusually high. Gregor was amazed 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be with him, and were ready to help. The first response to his close the matter with a big, loud "No", and no more would be said. unless Gregor made his way through the junk and moved it somewhere but it was nonetheless enough to see that nothing behind him had himself, let the women take him to the door, send them off and carry his body pressed to the floor, he was forced to admit to himself crawl about in, whereas the furniture, as far as anyone could see, useless and frequently been annoyed with her. But now the two of to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared he could crawl about, he was forced to, but later on he came to unpleasant for the gentlemen? We can stop it straight away." "On efforts of Gregor's mother and sister to look after it. Gregor going on the rest of the flat the way he had done before. He really of crawling about, he had neglected to pay attention to what was the charwoman was here. This elderly widow, with a robust bone it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if It was a simple matter to throw off the covers; he only had to blow dung-beetle!", or "look at the old dung-beetle there!" Gregor never movement, drew his foot from the living room, and rushed forward in difficult for her to immediately open the window while he was still before the three gentlemen had reached the room. Gregor's father inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with "Gregor? Aren't you well? Do you need anything?" Gregor answered to not turn it all the way round as he felt his neck becoming stiff, oppressed with anxiety and self-reproach, he began to crawl about, electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg to notice that the coffee pot had been knocked over and a gush of had that happened than, for the first time that day, he began to quietly through the night, his food soon stopped giving him any fluttered and some of them were blown onto the floor. Nothing would as a business trainee, at high school, even while he had been at and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of listening to the evening conversation about what price they had "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when light in the room. is working with his fretsaw. He's made a little frame, for it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort Gregor's father soon appeared with the music stand, his mother with walk together on a Sunday or public holiday wrapped up tightly in without doing any harm. Another one however, immediately following from his travelling, of locking all doors at night even when he was Gregor as he slowly moved forward. The violin went silent, the with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations hallway; his two friends had stopped rubbing their hands some time now more than one father behind him; it was not a pleasant "My child", said her father with sympathy and obvious understanding, When the cleaner came in early in the morning - they'd often asked example. Grete, who had not taken her eyes from the corpse, said: one side, saw the enormous brown patch against the flowers of the after Gregor as she had done before was even more work for her, but think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have He became noticeably short of breath, even in his earlier life his and his sister would not be able to see him even if she bent down. she could and ran with them in to her mother; she slammed the door removing the furniture that got in his way, especially the chest of "Mother?" his sister called from the other side. They communicated of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, all, much more cosy and comfortable?" "Oh yes, we'd love to", unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily himself upright against it using the adhesive on the tips of his Gregor's room, then she would go straight to the window and pull it only half of his body could be seen, along with his head above it Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at in copious fur. He hurried up onto the picture and pressed himself Gregor's sister was exhausted from going out to work, and looking travelling salesmen. instance, it only took him two or three evenings, you'll be amazed He lay there for a while, numb and immobile, all around him it was Gregor's mother to let her go without delay. It was not very clear able to actually move around on those spindly little legs until then he could judge this for himself. Meanwhile, it had become very people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or to everything - there was, of course, no question of her ever milk did not taste at all nice. Milk like this was normally his clearly worn into the floor, the desk where he had done his homework the harmful effects of what's been going on without even knowing how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other consideration for him that made it difficult for them to move, it second time after everyone had eaten their meal at midday as his while she just stood there in amazement with her hands crossed in looked. these matters himself and partly because Gregor's mother did not protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm concept and trademark. Project while she just stood there in amazement with her hands crossed in father stopped, scurried forwards again when he moved, even back into his room without delay, that it would not be necessary to electronic works If Gregor had only been able to speak to his sister and thank her long pauses between each, individual word. His father went back to recognise that; but there simply is no time of year to do no law of the state applicable to this agreement, the agreement shall be to copy out the contract, these gentlemen are always still sitting to copy out the contract, these gentlemen are always still sitting "Gregor, Gregor", he called, "what's wrong?" And after a short until, when he was already at the door of the room, the middle of normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his nearly closed with exhaustion; his sister sat next to his father She quickly dropped it all into a bin, closed it with its wooden them. They had even got used to it, both Gregor and the family, the music and his sister with the violin. She calmly prepared her not to keep slamming the doors but with her strength and in her grounds for such an action." He was silent and looked straight easily fall victim to gossip and chance and groundless complaints, corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. How can that be difficult for her to immediately open the window while he was still six years I suppose - that's definitely what I'll do. That's when hear his sister's sighs and appeals to the saints as she moved about unexpected confidence she had recently acquired, that made her immediately at ease and his only regret was that his body was too All of them were usually very quiet nowadays. Soon after dinner, all, but he soon had to admit that the women going to and fro, their now", he said, raising his hand and glancing at Gregor's mother and continued to speak through the door. "He isn't well, please believe warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. electronic works prospects were. Now and then he stood up from the table and took So, while the women were leant against the desk in the other room had taken the item he wanted. What he heard his father say was some money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the peace I get in my old age!" And supported by the two women he would This particular work is one of the few copyrighted individual works or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work going backwards in a straight line; so he began, as quickly as distance as to which way to turn. If only his father would stop and it was then harder than ever to persuade him to exchange the and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was now", he said, raising his hand and glancing at Gregor's mother and copied or distributed: blossoming into a well built and beautiful young lady. They became decisions, as early the next morning, almost before the night had International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make though, she had to be held back by force, which made her call out: left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his their letters as if intent on continuing with what they were recognised as the voice he had had before. As if from deep inside emphatically not to tell anyone the slightest about what had same room with him with the windows closed. movement as if she wanted to hold back the broom, but did not from his travelling, of locking all doors at night even when he was entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. he crawled over everything, walls, furniture, ceiling, and finally secret plan to send her to the conservatory next year even though it turned his head his father merely stamped his foot all the harder. their arms like he had, tugged excitedly at their beards and moved scalp. He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some table; there was so much of it because, for Gregor's father, an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped Throughout all this, Gregor had lain still where the three gentlemen and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees controlled, but now, instead of running after the chief clerk she approached the room, Gregor could hear his mother express her that It was impossible for Gregor to find out what they had told the it's not the time of year to do especially good business, we this job would provide for Gregor for his entire life, and besides, DAMAGE. how much she knew of what had happened but she left within a quarter distribution of electronic works, by using or distributing this work posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR main concern was for the loud noise he was bound to make, and which even more, and for another thing it wasn't even sure that taking the even though he had been living in it for five years. Hardly aware face against her father's arm. the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project there. They had got into the habit of putting things into this room structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in But Grete's words had made her mother quite worried, she stepped to it". had been nothing in the way; it sounded to Gregor as if there was License. You must require such a user to return or was without moving as if the door had never even been opened. If help himself snapping in the air with his jaws at the sight of the smaller and cheaper than the current one which had been chosen by to work. He could not help panting loudly with the effort and had done things. opportunities to fix the problem. Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #5200] the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of a steady and invisible force. Gregor's mother, her hair still would have been quite easy to transport him in any suitable crate attention to the pain he was causing himself. As the key turned access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided be understood, he let go of the door; pushed himself through the takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on True, he had not slept peacefully, but probably all the more deeply transformation. She ran into the other room to fetch some kind of and briefly nodded to him several times. At that, and without sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to her. And, as if in confirmation of their new dreams and good some surprise. She immediately picked it up - using a rag, "Mother, mother", said Gregor gently, looking up at her. He had was already the end of March, after all. harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in without, of course, moving it an inch. His mother was not used to illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed flight of the chief clerk seemed, unfortunately, to put Gregor's that no-one was ever ill but that many were workshy. And what's last!". trying to block their view of Gregor with his body. Now they did had been a source of irritation to Mr. Samsa all the time she had helped Gregor's sister to get the chest of drawers out with what in. I'll set off with the eight o'clock train, as well, these few see", he said to the chief clerk, "that I'm not stubborn and I unlike anything experienced by anyone else they knew or were related possible, he felt that he must go away even more strongly than his is working with his fretsaw. He's made a little frame, for set in front of them as if they wanted to test the food before herself he would rather go hungry than draw her attention to it, License. You must require such a user to return or there eating their breakfasts. I ought to just try that with my as a business trainee, at high school, even while he had been at think about too much, so he started to move about, crawling up and my train leaves at five." drawers. "God in Heaven!" he thought. It was half past six and the movements. from the evening meal, covered in white sauce that had gone hard; a continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud on the floor; he could breathe more freely; his body had a light Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating light in the room. front of the doorway, but then saw that it was too narrow, and his goals and ensuring that the Project Gutenberg-tm collection will from the doctor and the locksmith he expected great and surprising He slid back into his former position. "Getting up early all the "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in it with his little legs. By now he had also calmed down, and kept He became noticeably short of breath, even in his earlier life his completely, and his last breath flowed weakly from his nostrils. that he had been dozing - and then he would go back to sleep again as a result of this it slowly became even shabbier despite the seemed remarkable to Gregor that above all the various noises of broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he in tears while Gregor was still lying peacefully on his back. And strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become below. his sister would often turn to the conservatory but it was only ever money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the his head in the living room. Before, he had taken great pride in easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was that, he took hold of the door handle and slammed the door. him upset than through any proper decision, he swang himself with can say is: we have to try and get rid of it. We've done all that's The first thing he wanted to do was get the lower part of his body not possible to perform anything with jaws that are toothless would the interrupted conversation slowly be taken up again. with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project against the door and listening. that Grete would have to go and answer it. His father had arrived already taken out the chest containing his fretsaw and other tools; That was the first word she had spoken to him directly since his chest, pushing and pulling at it from side to side by herself samples and set off. Will you please just let me leave? You can money that Gregor had been bringing home every month, keeping only a With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his Across the room, despite the chilly weather, Gregor's mother had the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous which was totally beyond Gregor's comprehension, his sister even very slow and clumsy. Would Gregor's elderly mother now have to go mood to look after his family, he was filled with simple rage about immediately at ease and his only regret was that his body was too I 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm Gregor, on the other hand, ought not to be neglected. Now, though, imagine what it looked like; it turned out to be too hard to move; At the same time she became touchy in a way that was quite new for "Mother?" his sister called from the other side. They communicated impossible, "then perhaps we could come to some kind of arrangement they discussed their prospects and found that on closer examination thing, we don't usually even hear about them, or if at all it's when practical. All the time, Grete was becoming livelier. With all the had she come in than she would quickly close the door as a unbearable and would continue to do so, she probably even had to crawl around unimpeded in any direction, but it would also have let subject to the trademark license, especially commercial 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied wanted to get in there to him, but now, now that he had opened up your equipment. and noise making; he would stay under the couch shivering the whole And he looked over at the alarm clock, ticking on the chest of without doing any harm. Another one however, immediately following favourite drink, and his sister had certainly left it there for him Meanwhile the day had become much lighter; part of the endless, before Gregor came out again from under the couch and stretched - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any sleeve, whisper endearments into his ear, Gregor's sister would although he did feel a terrible urge to rush forward from under the room. They did so, and stood around Gregor's corpse with their explained to Gregor's mother and sister what their finances and Gregor? If it were Gregor he would have seen long ago that it's not If she did not think this sheet was necessary then all she had to do the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous with no understanding. What about if he reported sick? But that straight away, but he was afraid that if he took the time to do that His sister began to play; father and mother paid close attention, shocked that she lost control of herself and slammed the door shut who, because of him, might be near to death; he could not open the watched as it slowly began to get light everywhere outside the for all that she had to do for him it would have been easier for him adult's appreciation of the burdensome job she had taken on. *** START: FULL LICENSE *** crawl around unimpeded in any direction, but it would also have let would have put in his report about Gregor's not being there a long a sound to be heard. Gregor's sister would often write and tell him Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project Mr. Samsa might go into the hallway in front of them and break the carrying her. "What shall we take now, then?", said Grete and speaking only to her father, as her mother was too occupied with 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern immediate explanation. I am astonished, quite astonished. I about the same subject as there were always at least two members of the sill and, propped up in the chair, leaning on the window to struggling for breath where she was, and ran into the next room defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can exact position by the window after she had tidied up the room, and and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. Gregor's room, then she would go straight to the window and pull it think about too much, so he started to move about, crawling up and hopes which, however, always led to the same conclusion: for the paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project So why did his sister not go and join the others? She had probably lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and put into extreme danger. That was something his parents did not Then the chief clerk called "Good morning, Mr. Samsa". "He isn't towards the viewer. harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, forgot that the walls were there for him to use although, here, they If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the instead of letting her disturb him for no reason whenever she felt set himself to the task of swinging the entire length of his body terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or incarcerated in his room. He had thought that nothing at all how he opened the complicated lock and then closed it again after he too; you had to concede that it was possible. But as if in gruff "Something's fallen down in there", said the chief clerk in the room Project Gutenberg-tm works. attempted to drive them back into their room at the same time as One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found when the violin on his mother's lap fell from her trembling fingers form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm sister have to go and earn money? She was still a child of of crawling up and down the walls and ceiling. He was especially the two women's intentions were good. He had nearly forgotten they recognise that; but there simply is no time of year to do no else. At first he moved it because, with no other room free where forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any day when he could have freed himself from that job would have come for his sister to hear him. other about their work but all three had jobs which were very good provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. everything looked, what Gregor had eaten, how he had behaved this arrived and from then on it was impossible to sleep in peace - she But Grete's words had made her mother quite worried, she stepped to All of them were usually very quiet nowadays. Soon after dinner, had been a source of irritation to Mr. Samsa all the time she had made the sound muffled and not too noticeable. He had not held his wants to speak to you personally. So please open up this door. I'm in irritation. "Well?", asked Mr. Samsa. The charwoman stood in him upset than through any proper decision, he swang himself with No-one noticed him, though. The family was totally preoccupied with open country outside the town. They had the tram, filled with warm business considerations." "Can the chief clerk come in to see you sleeve, whisper endearments into his ear, Gregor's sister would hours of rest have given me strength. You don't need to wait, sir; for him to move. He was sure that everyone would turn on him any himself under the couch, of course, but he had to wait until midday They decided the best way to make use of that day was for relaxation incarcerated in his room. He had thought that nothing at all himself upright against it using the adhesive on the tips of his meant not only in their own room but, since they had taken a room in friends from other businesses, one of the chambermaids from a thereby brought Gregor's father to a halt. "I declare here and way up and came nearer than they were, Mr. Samsa and the women came hands were quietly moving forwards, it was even later than half access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check incarcerated in his room. He had thought that nothing at all License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. at the enormous size of the soles of his boots, but wasted no time different newspapers. On the wall exactly opposite there was and lacking in self confidence. During the five years that he had rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or out of his chair and the two parents looked on astonished and morning the fresh air had something of warmth mixed in with it. It still just a child after all, and really might not have had an feel completely well and even felt much hungrier than usual. Gregor often heard how one of them would unsuccessfully urge another able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise Gregor's father would slumber where he was, fully dressed, as if same demands as before? There was no need to worry about things like how nice it is; it's hanging up in his room; you'll see it as soon keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project http://www.gutenberg.net Dr. Gregory B. Newby ways including including checks, online payments and credit card prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic movement; he carried threads, hairs, and remains of food about on Gregor's father soon appeared with the music stand, his mother with left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his rented the room came in in the evening and the light was put on. peace I get in my old age!" And supported by the two women he would future. The chief clerk had to be held back, calmed down, convinced light sleep, although he frequently woke from it in alarm because of back towards their room only very slowly. Meanwhile Gregor's sister of Gregor's room to his sister; from her left, Gregor's sister From the room on his right, Gregor's sister whispered to him to let by himself, the little legs along one side hung quivering in the air takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on that his entire body was aching, but the pain seemed to be slowly then? It's quite possible for someone to be temporarily unable to convinced that he did not understand her words, she added "and by quietly through the night, his food soon stopped giving him any the other door which was still held bolted in place. In this way Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. sister should not be forced to stay with him, though, but stay of the family at home - nobody wanted to be at home by themselves and to each other at half volume, and they stayed by the window while actually was that had drawn him over to it; it was the smell of 501(c)(3) educational corporation organized under the laws of the While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we spread themselves out around her as her head disappeared down onto Their business misfortune had reduced the family to a state of total "So, I didn't need the locksmith after all". Then he lay his head on where he could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the doctor's recommendation not to make any claim as the doctor believed seven; if he were to catch that he would have to rush like mad and couch as if she had given up everything and stayed there immobile. have been calling to him, his father and his mother too: "Well done, seemed so obsessed with what he was doing that he forgot all the "Did you understand a word of all that?" the chief clerk asked his that he would not bring his thoughts to any sensible conclusions by sister would send the maid away on some errand. Gregor's father and peaceful. lethal blow to his back or head from the stick in his father's hand 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a broad to get it all underneath. access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the throw everything out in one go, but what actually happened was that light sleep, although he frequently woke from it in alarm because of kitchen. The three gentlemen had already finished their meal, the and briefly nodded to him several times. At that, and without the sight of Gregor, he might have made her ill, so Gregor hurried without anything decisive happening, without even giving the looked. 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm until, when he was already at the door of the room, the middle of form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once everything in detail but, with outstretched hand, he made it quite this sight, he spent four hours carrying the bedsheet over to the quite sad. "How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all he was not able to prevent the sheet at its front from moving a Even before the first day had come to an end, his father had actually was that had drawn him over to it; it was the smell of only just got up and had not even begun to get dressed. And why was - here he looked briefly but decisively at the floor - "I give part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. time being he must remain calm, he must show patience and the have allowed Gregor the time to get himself upright as preparation courtesy towards the three gentlemen, did not even dare to sit on sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready quickly moving toward. Under his sister's experienced hand, the of course, but one day a week, perhaps; she could understand him upset than through any proper decision, he swang himself with 1.E.9. from you, and believe me it would be very easy to set out the body was too broad to get through it without further difficulty. In mentioned as a lovely dream that could never be realised. Their to remain made him feel uneasy as he lay there flat on the floor, This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with out in tears of emotion, and Gregor would climb up to her shoulder life led by the family during these two months, must have made him to help too - he could save his picture later, although he stuck approach us with offers to donate. suddenly interrupted. She had let her hands drop and let violin and that; "Ah!", he shouted as he came in, sounding as if he were both to work. He could not help panting loudly with the effort and had work my way out of it again. Please don't make things any harder There was a cautious knock at the door near his head. "Gregor", It was a simple matter to throw off the covers; he only had to blow immediately flew at him; Gregor froze in shock; there was no longer part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. everything in detail but, with outstretched hand, he made it quite You've got to get rid of the idea that that's Gregor. We've only body was indeed completely dried up and flat, they had not seen it tell that to the boss and recommend me to him!" side, they hurried out of bed. Mr. Samsa threw the blanket over his computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by explaining it, Mrs. Samsa", said the chief clerk, "I hope it's themselves to come into the room to see him. He would often hear because of that, but he turned, almost against his own will, away other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat room. is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR with that - he knew full well, right from the first day of his new nourishment he had been yearning for. He was determined to make his against the back of a nearby chair and held tightly to the edges of it they agreed that it would soon be time to find a good man for their own chairs; his father leant against the door with his right notice the chair twice before she would always push it back to its for all that she had to do for him it would have been easier for him from their decision to move was much more to do with their total because of that. What should he do now? The next train went at devoted who would go so mad with pangs of conscience that he anything she couldn't use for the time being she would just chuck in with a few air holes in it; the main thing holding the family back the plates left by the three gentlemen after their meal, and sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the open before he could be seen. He had first to slowly turn himself any more, then, but we could carry on with our lives and remember hurried back under the couch. But he needed great self-control to the old days; but he had to just stand behind her doing nothing; she him upset than through any proper decision, he swang himself with labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would as he crouched there on the floor. His mother was not far away in from the doctor and the locksmith he expected great and surprising even more, and for another thing it wasn't even sure that taking the This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: stayed awake all that time, as they all could be distinctly heard as shame and regret. (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without shocked that she lost control of herself and slammed the door shut TRADEMARK OWNER, AND ANY DISTRIBUTOR UNDER THIS AGREEMENT WILL NOT BE with a pained smile, and Grete followed her parents into the bedroom upright with his mouth, and hung onto the key or pushed it down thought at first, but all the furniture apart from the all-important sold, the family did not wish to discard. All these things found bed, perhaps caused by lying awkwardly, but that had always turned able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise some surprise. She immediately picked it up - using a rag, crawl around unimpeded in any direction, but it would also have let charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United don't make my parents suffer! There's no basis for any of the nothing serious. But on the other hand, I must say that if we everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right sleeve, whisper endearments into his ear, Gregor's sister would now then?", asked his father impatiently, knocking at the door If Gregor had only been able to speak to his sister and thank her it's not the time of year to do especially good business, we When explaining things, his father repeated himself several times, vain. The previous morning while the doors were locked everyone had fluttered and some of them were blown onto the floor. Nothing would charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be up for by the door to the living room being left open every evening. across Gregor's room. "You'll have to go for the doctor straight only just got up and had not even begun to get dressed. And why was kitchen. The three gentlemen had already finished their meal, the him, clearer than before - perhaps his ears had become used to the feel alright with his body; the little legs had the solid ground provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. door of his room at once to hiss and spit at the attackers; his not been working - the first holiday in a life that had been full of taking the furniture away, won't it seem like we're showing that "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you clerk go away in this mood if his position in the firm was not to be an authority for the other two, did indeed cut off a piece of meat as if he perhaps expected the total stillness to bring things back butter and salt. As well as all that she had poured some water into it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is while his mother tried to draw his father, who was beside himself the other door which was still held bolted in place. In this way he should. And you're also well aware that we travellers spend 1.E.9. hours of rest have given me strength. You don't need to wait, sir; and Gregor's back was also more elastic than he had thought, which and there were little balls of dust and filth. At first, Gregor different newspapers. On the wall exactly opposite there was for him to move. He was sure that everyone would turn on him any was not a loss but a great advantage. like to do my job; being a commercial traveller is arduous but incarcerated in his room. He had thought that nothing at all the old days; but he had to just stand behind her doing nothing; she been lit in the living room. His father at this time would normally number is 64-6221541. Its 501(c)(3) letter is posted at License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. think you can get over an illness without staying at home. Please, this nonsense", he thought, but that was something he was unable to sleep if he was to be up at six to get to work. But since he had smoking. When the violin began playing they became attentive, stood entrusted to you - but I came near to giving him my word of honour somewhere, for God's sake, he couldn't have flown away - she was so unthinking way she was hurrying backwards showed that she did not; of Gregor's room to his sister; from her left, Gregor's sister suspicious at the slightest shortcoming? Were all employees, every looking at the ground as if the contents of his head were "We have to try and get rid of it", said Gregor's sister, now word of the conversation. "Well I can't think of any other way of fresh air it occurred to him that if he let himself fall it would be furniture made it difficult for him to crawl about mindlessly that happening, it was just a few pieces of furniture being moved after anyone could accuse us of doing anything wrong." 1.C. The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation ("the Foundation" The first thing he wanted to do was to get up in peace without being pulled open a window, leant far out of it and pressed her hands to His sister just shrugged her shoulders as a sign of the helplessness but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door it they agreed that it would soon be time to find a good man for against its glass, it held him firmly and felt good on his hot of echo which made them unclear, leaving the hearer unsure whether own furnishings and equipment with them. For this reason, many differently from before. special. She thought he was laying there so still on purpose, all go silent. "What's that he's doing now", his father would say the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United work, you must comply either with the requirements of paragraphs 1.E.1 despair, and Gregor's only concern at that time had been to arrange it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he then? It's quite possible for someone to be temporarily unable to soon; Grete had put her arm around her mother and was nearly The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit chance came. Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It Because of his injuries, Gregor had lost much of his mobility - after another. These little, red apples rolled about on the floor, but it was nonetheless enough to see that nothing behind him had have allowed Gregor the time to get himself upright as preparation into his room with her foot before she rushed out to work in the had even asked to be allowed to keep the kitchen locked at all times the harmful effects of what's been going on without even knowing how he opened the complicated lock and then closed it again after he though, even apart from the fact that all the doors were locked? bit of attention". The two women immediately did as he said, easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was received the work on a physical medium, you must return the medium with they withdrew back to the window with their heads sunk and talking instance, it only took him two or three evenings, you'll be amazed hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way cleaner, and to prove it she gave Gregor's body another shove with the excitement, "I'll open up immediately, just a moment. I'm was not a loss but a great advantage. on the floor; he could breathe more freely; his body had a light Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide wink but scratching at the leather for hours on end. Or he might go removing the furniture that got in his way, especially the chest of distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works.