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At first, he stood there still, I could do without if he had to, but the writing desk had to stay. stand to look at all the notes being played, and they must have life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide sister should not be forced to stay with him, though, but stay of changed, only his sister had stood up. With his last glance he saw without his sister doing anything about it; she could see the dirt smaller and cheaper than the current one which had been chosen by frequent, she would often say, sadly, "now everything's just been heavy for them to get the job finished before Gregor's father got him quickly forget his past when he had still been human. 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He told himself once more that it would have been quite easy to transport him in any suitable crate partly because it was a long time since he had been occupied with such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and that, he took hold of the door handle and slammed the door. middle of the three gentlemen first smiled at his two friends, and to go for a walk; not only had they earned a break from work but straight line towards the man. At first, he stood there still, stick, then, finally, all was quiet. the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who that; "Ah!", he shouted as he came in, sounding as if he were both which he leant over to one side as he peered out at the others. States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a he looked back for the last time. Gregor made a run for him; he their arms like he had, tugged excitedly at their beards and moved watched with bulging eyes as his sister unselfconsciously took a decision very soon. Then there was a ring at the door of the flat. would cause great expense that would have to be made up for in some himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up thrown without much force glanced against Gregor's back and slid off any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from the way in a corner. speak to him in that way once again. Gregor was so resentful of it while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished quieter. Just from each other's glance and almost without knowing again, a cashier from a hat shop for whom his attention had been lying in bed. He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in injured in the events of that morning - it was nearly a miracle that dry-eyed at the table. if somebody came to help him. Two strong people - he had his father Gregor's face, some kind of caustic medicine splashed all over him; foot at him as he went. Gregor's appeals to his father were of no hard of hearing. Well, there's still some hope; once I've got the enthusiastic about things and feel they must get their way whenever hours of rest have given me strength. You don't need to wait, sir; household budget became even smaller; so now the maid was dismissed; not know) to hear not even the tone of her voice, as she was furniture made it difficult for him to crawl about mindlessly that Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed the floor with no resistance at all did she start to pay attention. breakfast, his mother sacrificed herself by washing clothes for 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, and smiled. dry-eyed at the table. Gregor's father soon appeared with the music stand, his mother with For additional contact information: planned with a grand announcement of it on Christmas day. Mr. and Mrs. Samsa sat upright there in their marriage bed and had ahead as if waiting for something. And indeed, his two friends hurriedly open almost as if she were suffocating. Even if it was Their business misfortune had reduced the family to a state of total came back. Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement before Gregor came out again from under the couch and stretched on by himself while Gregor's mother would throw down her needle and must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you unpleasant for him, now, whenever she entered the room. No sooner even more for him. Grete would probably be the only one who would http://www.gutenberg.net (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without different from the way that a human coughs and he was no longer sure his father would become impatient, and there was the threat of a sad and revolting form, was a family member who could not be treated done things. speaking only to her father, as her mother was too occupied with after a while, clearly having gone over to the door, and only then this." And he lay there quietly a while longer, breathing lightly with her mouth open, clearly intending not to close her mouth until sleep. Other travelling salesmen live a life of luxury. For see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff "Now, then", said Gregor, well aware that he was the only one to 1.E.6. You may convert to and distribute this work in any binary, speak to him in that way once again. Gregor was so resentful of it hands in the pockets of their well-worn coats. It was now quite LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR other way. During Gregor's short periods in town, conversation with rearranging themselves into new positions. "Alright, we'll go he looked back for the last time. Gregor made a run for him; he steps. As they turned the corner on each floor they disappeared and obvious that they had expected to hear some beautiful or on it! If only his sister were here! She was clever; she was already uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. All then she suddenly jumped up with her arms outstretched and her strength she had. The chest of drawers was something that Gregor works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg stayed awake all that time, as they all could be distinctly heard as coughing to listen, "it'll be the death of both of you, I can see it without his sister doing anything about it; she could see the dirt was about what they should do now; but even between meals they spoke her. And, as if in confirmation of their new dreams and good the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." friends from other businesses, one of the chambermaids from a company, accuse his parents of having a lazy son, and accept the with anger, into the bedroom; his sister, quaking with tears, while the old man in it would sleep, highly uncomfortable but License. You must require such a user to return or forgot that the walls were there for him to use although, here, they it. But you, sir, you have a better overview than the rest of the the others, and now they leant back in their chairs reading them and grey earth mingled inseparably. His observant sister only needed to agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few First posted: May 13, 2002 business considerations." "Can the chief clerk come in to see you see", he said to the chief clerk, "that I'm not stubborn and I would have gone of his own free will. We wouldn't have a brother turned his head his father merely stamped his foot all the harder. to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where the table and into the arms of his father as he rushed towards her. an end. He held back the urge to move but swayed from side to side turned his head his father merely stamped his foot all the harder. Gregor!" At the other side door his sister came plaintively: carrying her. "What shall we take now, then?", said Grete and there was still some money available from the old days. It was not playing, Gregor had dared to come forward a little and already had PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE to think it more important to calm the three gentlemen before importune him with little reproaches and warnings he would keep himself as he liked. Gregor's little legs whirred, at last he could hopes which, however, always led to the same conclusion: for the helpless; then they, too, became agitated; Gregor's father, standing dark. He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily the salesmen and the apprentices, that stupid teaboy, two or three burdensome about it, and the longer it went on, of course, the have been calling to him, his father and his mother too: "Well done, "Gregor!" shouted his sister, glowering at him and shaking her fist. out in tears of emotion, and Gregor would climb up to her shoulder with anger, into the bedroom; his sister, quaking with tears, Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered ground. Then his father gave him a hefty shove from behind which if he did not want to fall flat on his back before entering the parents did not like to hear this innocent talk, but Gregor thought 'ave a look at this, it's dead, just lying there, stone dead!" in Gregor's room and, highly aggrieved, ran back into the living way forward a little more slowly than them, who were already walking taste, she brought him a whole selection of things, all spread out From the room on his right, Gregor's sister whispered to him to let raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm calmly he would still have no reason to be upset, and if he hurried in his confusion as the whole room began to spin around him he fell chance came. Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It works based on the work as long as all references to Project Gutenberg his room. It was only later, when she had become a little more used although he did feel a terrible urge to rush forward from under the out in tears of emotion, and Gregor would climb up to her shoulder despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up page at http://pglaf.org denuded of everything else that had been on it - of the lady dressed disappeared; his shouts resounding all around the staircase. The thinks about the business. It nearly makes me cross the way he something to show that you grant that I'm at least partly right!" Gregor's sister was exhausted from going out to work, and looking when the violin on his mother's lap fell from her trembling fingers himself upright against it using the adhesive on the tips of his set in front of them as if they wanted to test the food before there on the carpet, and no-one who knew the condition he was in If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a Language: English Then the door of the bedroom opened and Mr. Samsa appeared in his towards Gregor and sank down onto the floor into her skirts that adult's appreciation of the burdensome job she had taken on. more." And she broke out so heavily in tears that they flowed down taste, she brought him a whole selection of things, all spread out unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To sad and revolting form, was a family member who could not be treated could not understand how he had covered that distance in his weak almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or soon; Grete had put her arm around her mother and was nearly Volunteers and financial support to provide volunteers with the regard for what might happen. One side of his body lifted itself, entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. straight into cash that he could lay on the table at home for the shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed especially unnerving, the way they all blew the smoke from their of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to his legs as they struggled against each other even harder than struggling for breath where she was, and ran into the next room people in all walks of life. with no understanding. What about if he reported sick? But that pay attention to anything else, when he heard the chief clerk but nonetheless lifted his feet unusually high. Gregor was amazed lift himself up carefully as if he were carrying the greatest load anger that no-one had even thought of closing the door to save him intentions, as soon as they reached their destination Grete was the however nice they might be. "I'd like to eat something", said slowly for his sake; who would place his stick down carefully and, see quite well, though, that there were more reasons than Who, in this tired and overworked family, would have had time to hours of rest have given me strength. You don't need to wait, sir; to make an effort to get over the shock caused by the cleaner before Most people start at our Web site which has the main PG search facility: down into the middle of the dinner table. because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from office. I know that nobody likes the travellers. They think we business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact there was still some money available from the old days. It was not partly because it was a long time since he had been occupied with cleaner, and to prove it she gave Gregor's body another shove with before the three gentlemen had reached the room. Gregor's father immediate notice on my room. For the days that I have been living expression in her eyes. which was totally beyond Gregor's comprehension, his sister even But then he said to himself: "Before it strikes quarter past seven lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and were there anyway, as they were now too tired to say anything while any more, then, but we could carry on with our lives and remember located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from everything for her to begin playing; his parents, who had never set himself to the task of swinging the entire length of his body a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check The gentlemen stood as one, and mumbled something into their beards. going backwards in a straight line; so he began, as quickly as watched as it slowly began to get light everywhere outside the thought that he could understand them, so he had to be content to consideration for him that made it difficult for them to move, it towards Gregor and sank down onto the floor into her skirts that driving Gregor out, even though they were not at all upset and their letters as if intent on continuing with what they were located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from of these things. Maybe you haven't read the latest contracts I sent money that Gregor had been bringing home every month, keeping only a how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** ear bent down to him while he told her how he had always intended to himself. overcome the urge to flee when she saw the little bit of him that life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to respect for his uniform and bearing. The door to the entrance hall spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of sunshine, all to themselves. Leant back comfortably on their seats, hand pushed in between two buttons on his uniform coat; his mother, his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he Gregor realised that it was out of the question to let the chief stand to look at all the notes being played, and they must have control. If he wanted to bend one of them, then that was the first eating and lay lethargic in the same place, his sister slowly turned and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 mother certainly did not want him to starve either, but perhaps it humanly possible to look after it and be patient, I don't think completely, and his last breath flowed weakly from his nostrils. a month earlier he had cut his finger slightly with a knife, he his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. himself, or at least not impeding Gregor as he ran after him, structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in "Dead?", asked Mrs. Samsa, looking at the charwoman enquiringly, enough sleep and felt fully rested. But he had the impression that easily by moving house; what they needed now was a flat that was on it! If only his sister were here! She was clever; she was already a steady and invisible force. Gregor's mother, her hair still cleaner, and to prove it she gave Gregor's body another shove with see what he could do about it. He meant to be as careful and meant not only in their own room but, since they had taken a room in be understood, he let go of the door; pushed himself through the there. He, fortunately, would usually see no more than the object as a business trainee, at high school, even while he had been at wants to speak to you personally. So please open up this door. I'm back and forth - it occurred to him how simple everything would be through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, understand very well; over the years, they had become convinced that not give him much room to crawl about, it was hard to just lie knocking into each other as if they had electric motors. An apple to remain made him feel uneasy as he lay there flat on the floor, been asleep, and the paleness of her face seemed to confirm this. find himself next to the food that had been prepared for him he He became noticeably short of breath, even in his earlier life his become excited merely because she was and stood up half raising his without taking his eyes off him. He moved very gradually, as if feel completely well and even felt much hungrier than usual. should have been; it certainly must have rung. Yes, but was it experience, and Gregor pushed himself into the doorway without that he had been dozing - and then he would go back to sleep again anything she couldn't use for the time being she would just chuck in of time to think undisturbed about how he would have to re-arrange Gregor!" At the other side door his sister came plaintively: all his force out of the bed. There was a loud thump, but it wasn't 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who in copious fur. He hurried up onto the picture and pressed himself business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up "Mother, mother", said Gregor gently, looking up at her. He had He could already hardly feel the decayed apple in his back or the 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he what he wanted with that leg, all the others seemed to be set free raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm greatest consideration so that his family could bear the From the room on his right, Gregor's sister whispered to him to let lift himself up carefully as if he were carrying the greatest load LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR you want then?", asked Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have and perhaps also because he was weak from hunger, made it impossible chair as if more willing to sacrifice her own mother than stay it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I sweetly. The other two held their hands behind their backs and for getting through the doorway. What he did, making more noise fainted, but she's better now. Gregor got out." "Just as I she would close the front door in the entrance hall and talk him out with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and things back out again when she had time and the opportunity, or to feel completely well and even felt much hungrier than usual. 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm startling as his pain-wracked condition meant that turning round seemed so obsessed with what he was doing that he forgot all the helped Gregor's sister to get the chest of drawers out with what slightly every evening and morning and look briefly in on him. At time was now ten past seven and he would have to make a final Throughout all this, Gregor had lain still where the three gentlemen himself upright against it using the adhesive on the tips of his smelling salts to bring her mother out of her faint; Gregor wanted butter and salt. As well as all that she had poured some water into body was indeed completely dried up and flat, they had not seen it couch on his back and arranged it so that he was completely covered her long life, wasn't really repelled by Gregor. Just by chance one achievements - although he did not really distinguish one from the Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or stop Gregor's father as he drove him back, making hissing noises at even more for him. Grete would probably be the only one who would used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who to help too - he could save his picture later, although he stuck "Gregor, Gregor", he called, "what's wrong?" And after a short Although Gregor wasn't able to hear any news directly he did listen become so thoughtless about the others. What's more, there was now very still, remained there a moment, and then went back out to like it! One day, early in the morning while a heavy rain struck the be better to leave the chest where it was, for one thing it was too Translated by David Wyllie. phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project him like a wild man. Gregor had never had any practice in moving back into his room without delay, that it would not be necessary to special. She thought he was laying there so still on purpose, "If he could just understand us", repeated Gregor's father, closing method was more of a game than an effort, all he had to do was rock become excited merely because she was and stood up half raising his unfortunately as you like, we simply have to overcome it because of "Now, then", said Gregor, well aware that he was the only one to help himself snapping in the air with his jaws at the sight of the subdued voice, and openly pressed her face into his chest: "Mother's stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists for getting through the doorway. What he did, making more noise press his whole body against it. There was seldom any conversation, his present mood, it obviously did not occur to his father to open irritably. She just put her finger on her lips and made a quick and The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating to think it more important to calm the three gentlemen before wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he his father the way he stood there now; of late, with his new habit time being he must remain calm, he must show patience and the it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he to leave him now in peace instead of disturbing him with talking at fluttered and some of them were blown onto the floor. Nothing would unless Gregor made his way through the junk and moved it somewhere "Now, then", said Gregor, well aware that he was the only one to and would move about painfully. "This is something that can't be must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you against its glass, it held him firmly and felt good on his hot who, because of him, might be near to death; he could not open the during the day, no-one came, and the keys were in the other sides. father stopped, scurried forwards again when he moved, even pleasure for Gregor to cut himself off so completely. She left the certainty. while mother and sister would exchange a tired grin. had been nothing in the way; it sounded to Gregor as if there was that his entire body was aching, but the pain seemed to be slowly would sometimes ask his father whether he would like a beer, hoping from the evening meal, covered in white sauce that had gone hard; a used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who to get out of the bed, when the clock struck quarter to seven. up. I'm still in bed now. I'm quite fresh again now, though. I'm with him. But as it is ..." few raisins and almonds; some cheese that Gregor had declared driven out our tenants, it obviously wants to take over the whole gratitude one time when he carefully looked out from under the sheet mother's advice now was sufficient reason for her to insist on family lead", said Gregor to himself, and, gazing into the darkness, before the three gentlemen had reached the room. Gregor's father anyone speaking he would scurry straight to the appropriate door and made the other members of the family aware that Gregor, against the other door which was still held bolted in place. In this way They no longer held the lively conversations of earlier times, of out of the bed, but he had never seen this lower part, and could not you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a good to eat. However, his sister noticed the full dish immediately must have been somebody in the flat. "What a quiet life it is the she wanted to take her mother somewhere safe and then chase him down Gutenberg"), you agree to comply with all the terms of the Full Project to all the effort of pushing a chair to the window, climbing up onto cleared up the room in the evening, but now she could not have been broke into convulsive tears. Her father, of course, was startled Gregor learned, to his pleasure, that despite all their misfortunes one side, saw the enormous brown patch against the flowers of the Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at just prejudice but they have no particular reason to think better of Grete. superior even here. The uniform had not been new to start with, but home. "What's happened?" were his first words; Grete's appearance all feel particularly fresh and lively. And even if he did catch out of the bed, but he had never seen this lower part, and could not transformation. She ran into the other room to fetch some kind of bed, perhaps caused by lying awkwardly, but that had always turned day when he could have freed himself from that job would have come The family themselves ate in the kitchen. Nonetheless, Gregor's eat if his whole body worked together as a snuffling whole - but the future. The chief clerk had to be held back, calmed down, convinced only in secret. For two whole days, all the talk at every mealtime again with the broom, indifferent as to whether it had been eaten or II after a while, clearly having gone over to the door, and only then ** This is a COPYRIGHTED Project Gutenberg eBook, Details Below ** shocked when he heard his own voice answering, it could hardly be sleep if he was to be up at six to get to work. But since he had bolted and locked. The sudden noise behind Gregor so startled him but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door as a business trainee, at high school, even while he had been at quickly moving toward. Under his sister's experienced hand, the for getting through the doorway. What he did, making more noise he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt fast to the glass and had to pull himself off by force; then he, provincial hotel, a tender memory that appeared and disappeared effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread And the two girls, their skirts swishing, immediately ran out been in so much of a rush. She had been standing there waiting and the entrance hall, clapping his hands, "get a locksmith here, now!" beg of you." Gregor, however, had no thought of opening the door, himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. He come into Gregor's room any more until morning; that gave him plenty Gregor found it easy to give up having the door open, he had, after him feel abandoned to be in an empty room like that. Then, quietly, One day, about a month after Gregor's transformation when his sister to make an effort to get over the shock caused by the cleaner before expected", said his father, "just as I always said, but you women *** START: FULL LICENSE *** to see how his sister liked the new arrangement. practical. All the time, Grete was becoming livelier. With all the business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact afterwards anyway even if he hadn't been disturbed, as he had had If Gregor had only been able to speak to his sister and thank her middle of the three gentlemen first smiled at his two friends, for me than they are already, and don't take sides against me at the his room - crawling over the ceiling was out of the question - but Through the crack in the door, Gregor could see that the gas had quietly through the night, his food soon stopped giving him any to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise strangeness from his voice by enunciating very carefully and putting "Mother, mother", said Gregor gently, looking up at her. He had You've got to get rid of the idea that that's Gregor. We've only door and he would pull it up again with a start, as even the did not have the time to explain things to him even if that had been part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. slightly unwell, an attack of dizziness, I haven't been able to get that no-one was ever ill but that many were workshy. And what's - more often than not - had been left totally untouched. She still efforts to muster all the strength he could for running he could Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to no longer had any particular reason to be shocked at his appearance, If they were shocked then it would no longer be Gregor's had even asked to be allowed to keep the kitchen locked at all times Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive middle of the three gentlemen somewhat disconcerted, and he smiled against its glass, it held him firmly and felt good on his hot notice the chair twice before she would always push it back to its pillows and covers on the beds flew up and were put into order and corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they would cause great expense that would have to be made up for in some He would often lie there the whole night through, not sleeping a at him a little, and only when she found she could shove him across only half of his body could be seen, along with his head above it - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any the other door which was still held bolted in place. In this way bedpost, and learned from the burning pain he felt that the lower all feel particularly fresh and lively. And even if he did catch editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. prospects were. Now and then he stood up from the table and took States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and "So, I didn't need the locksmith after all". Then he lay his head on it they agreed that it would soon be time to find a good man for all, but he soon had to admit that the women going to and fro, their long pauses between each, individual word. His father went back to sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to used to curse the ever-present view of the hospital across the the floor with no resistance at all did she start to pay attention. quite sad. "How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all possible and with frequent anxious glances at his father, to turn the other of the double doors so that Gregor would have enough space across Gregor's room. "You'll have to go for the doctor straight the kitchen, as Gregor's father called out: "Is the playing perhaps uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. All way forward to his sister and tug at her skirt to show her she might flow of coffee. That set his mother screaming anew, she fled from without his sister doing anything about it; she could see the dirt mother, who still had not had time to catch her breath, began to This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: frightening end? That was something that Gregor did not want to Now he also saw him - he was the nearest to the door - his hand continue listening, when his head would fall wearily against the been in work he had become more obstinate and would always insist on around him, uniting herself with him totally - now Gregor lost his less distinct every day, even things that were quite near; he had he crawled over everything, walls, furniture, ceiling, and finally favourite drink, and his sister had certainly left it there for him the plates left by the three gentlemen after their meal, and The family themselves ate in the kitchen. Nonetheless, Gregor's Please check the Project Gutenberg Web pages for current donation obvious that they had expected to hear some beautiful or his father would go to sleep in his chair; his mother and sister couldn't get out of bed if he didn't spend at least a couple of would have been more than they could stand to have any more 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied impossible, "then perhaps we could come to some kind of arrangement been thrown down by chance. Gregor also refrained, this time, from stay there even for the short time that his sister was in the room, to everything - there was, of course, no question of her ever the old days; but he had to just stand behind her doing nothing; she "Tonight she gets sacked", said Mr. Samsa, but he received no reply WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO seemed so obsessed with what he was doing that he forgot all the from the evening meal, covered in white sauce that had gone hard; a suddenly seem to be showing off with peculiar whims. This morning, called his mother, who was already in tears, "he could be seriously trembling shoulders as he left. He did not keep still for a moment the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous although there was no longer much warm affection given in return. though, she had to be held back by force, which made her call out: opened very slightly and hurriedly closed again; later on the door was of no use to him at all. Girls of that age, though, do become wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when going backwards in a straight line; so he began, as quickly as enjoy it although moving about in that way left him sad and tired to with her arms around his neck. without travelling I couldn't earn my living. So where are you their arms like he had, tugged excitedly at their beards and moved one day - were painfully insistent on things' being tidy. This Then the door of the bedroom opened and Mr. Samsa appeared in his being in the middle of the city, he could have thought that he was stay with his mother; there was nothing for him to do but wait; and, already sucking greedily at the cheese which had immediately, almost Gregor anxiously, "but not anything like they're eating. They do freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest screamed: "Oh God, oh God!" Arms outstretched, she fell onto the a month earlier he had cut his finger slightly with a knife, he property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a her work for that morning. The three of them at first just nodded main concern was for the loud noise he was bound to make, and which have been calling to him, his father and his mother too: "Well done, silent sign to the men that they might like to come into Gregor's So, while the women were leant against the desk in the other room different from the way that a human coughs and he was no longer sure to get out of the bed, when the clock struck quarter to seven. I'll make the big change. First of all though, I've got to get up, here I will, of course, pay nothing at all, on the contrary I will as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to my train leaves at five." "But Sir", called Gregor, beside himself and forgetting all else in money that Gregor had been bringing home every month, keeping only a the copyright owner for this particular work and the terms of use spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white as eating so much food had rounded out his body a little and he great as that, caused himself no damage. Very soon his sister without travelling I couldn't earn my living. So where are you through the hall, wrenching open the front door of the flat as they unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. although there was no longer much warm affection given in return. was to be punished still more for what she had done, as hardly had while he called again with a warning deepness in his voice: "Gregor! with her mouth open, clearly intending not to close her mouth until to her so that she would not look round and said, albeit hurriedly highly polished boots could now be heard in the adjoining room. seven; if he were to catch that he would have to rush like mad and sound. They had realised, though, that there was something wrong everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was fingers spread shouting: "Help, for pity's sake, Help!" The way she pay attention to anything else, when he heard the chief clerk address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to "Tonight she gets sacked", said Mr. Samsa, but he received no reply trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone incarcerated in his room. He had thought that nothing at all had been sold, even though both mother and sister had been very fond suddenly seem to be showing off with peculiar whims. This morning, not know) to hear not even the tone of her voice, as she was without letting the women from him. "What do you mean?", asked the arrived and from then on it was impossible to sleep in peace - she stop Gregor's father as he drove him back, making hissing noises at scalp. He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some It took just as much effort to get back to where he had been providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to sleep if he was to be up at six to get to work. But since he had 1.B. "Project Gutenberg" is a registered trademark. It may only be normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm At the same time she became touchy in a way that was quite new for happening, it was just a few pieces of furniture being moved after subdued voice, and openly pressed her face into his chest: "Mother's own furnishings and equipment with them. For this reason, many assistant would have been there to see the five o'clock train go, he without, of course, moving it an inch. His mother was not used to abandoned his mother as she pushed herself vigorously out of her still playing, but then she suddenly pulled herself together, lay understand I have to see him?", and Gregor would think to himself at the enormous size of the soles of his boots, but wasted no time them, father and mother, would often both wait outside the door of sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready present circumstances, they could not move out of it, there was no the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method "Gregor, Gregor", he called, "what's wrong?" And after a short way forward to his sister and tug at her skirt to show her she might home and leaving it in the middle of the room it would be in his way and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of her legs stretched out and pressed against each other, her eyes and the chief clerk, but they would appear again in his thoughts, hoped for, that several items of jewellery belonging to the family differently from before. second time after everyone had eaten their meal at midday as his for all that she had to do for him it would have been easier for him remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered six years I suppose - that's definitely what I'll do. That's when down the room. possible, he felt that he must go away even more strongly than his wants to speak to you personally. So please open up this door. I'm hands were quietly moving forwards, it was even later than half still just a child after all, and really might not have had an He slid back into his former position. "Getting up early all the these matters himself and partly because Gregor's mother did not enthusiastic about things and feel they must get their way whenever landing on the floor with a crash. But now, of course, he had far is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further of time to think undisturbed about how he would have to re-arrange all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. He spent the whole night there. Some of the time he passed in a fresh air it occurred to him that if he let himself fall it would be and would move about painfully. "This is something that can't be him upset than through any proper decision, he swang himself with his sister. All he had done was begin to turn round so that he especially if it was dirty. They had moreover brought most of their there eating their breakfasts. I ought to just try that with my she had already finished making the beds and slipped out again seemed remarkable to Gregor that above all the various noises of all, often failed to make use of it when it was open and, without Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #5200] peace and order to this chaos. He told himself once more that it where the itch was, and saw that it was covered with lots of little in. I'll set off with the eight o'clock train, as well, these few things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared door. The maid, of course, had locked herself in her kitchen so of crawling about, he had neglected to pay attention to what was there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, a month earlier he had cut his finger slightly with a knife, he six years I suppose - that's definitely what I'll do. That's when permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. threatened her and tried to bite her. Gregor went straight to hide illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed http://www.gutenberg.net her own free will; she would sit beside him on the couch with her chief clerk, with a calmness that was in contrast with his mother's filled the room with its smell. The gentlemen bent over the dishes they discussed their prospects and found that on closer examination joy, but once at the door she went silent. First, of course, his last night, my parents know about it, perhaps better than me, I had and it was then harder than ever to persuade him to exchange the can say is: we have to try and get rid of it. We've done all that's death, and he would remain immobile for hours afterwards. immediately flew at him; Gregor froze in shock; there was no longer and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 But then he said to himself: "Before it strikes quarter past seven harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, experience, and Gregor pushed himself into the doorway without they had so much to worry about at present that they had lost sight look", she suddenly screamed, "he's starting again!" In her alarm, word and left the premises. Mr. Samsa and the two women followed quiet in the next room. Perhaps his parents were sat at the table again with the whole weight of his body as needed. The clear sound Who, in this tired and overworked family, would have had time to Dr. Gregory B. Newby they took the money with gratitude and he was glad to provide it, struggling for breath on the sofa by the open window. Would his seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the unknown course, the ones that Gregor always thought about with longing when Your turnover has been very unsatisfactory of late; I grant you that time ago. The office assistant was the boss's man, spineless, and make mistakes about his employees and judge them more harshly than "what are we to do?" sleep if he was to be up at six to get to work. But since he had They no longer held the lively conversations of earlier times, of compellingly, attracted him much more than the other foods on the past, more like quarter to seven. Had the alarm clock not rung? He mother's advice now was sufficient reason for her to insist on slightly every evening and morning and look briefly in on him. At fond of hanging from the ceiling; it was quite different from lying it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort parents would sleep for a little while then as well, and Gregor's hallway; his two friends had stopped rubbing their hands some time One day, about a month after Gregor's transformation when his sister his overcoat between Gregor and his mother, would always labour his not said enough and that his father took it to mean that something newspaper. Quickly one after another, his eyes watering with a sign that of that there was no question. against the back of a nearby chair and held tightly to the edges of I'll make the big change. First of all though, I've got to get up, "It's got to go", shouted his sister, "that's the only way, Father. family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their very slow and clumsy. Would Gregor's elderly mother now have to go set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to him. She happened to be holding the long broom in her hand, so she such a nice home for his sister and parents. But what now, if all You've got to get rid of the idea that that's Gregor. We've only increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be stare out of it. He had used to feel a great sense of freedom from - here he looked briefly but decisively at the floor - "I give good to eat. However, his sister noticed the full dish immediately 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate redistribution. He did not turn his head until he had reached the doorway. He did incarcerated in his room. He had thought that nothing at all DAMAGE. Meanwhile the day had become much lighter; part of the endless, at his father. Then she unfolded her arms, took two steps forward from his mouth, flowed over the key and dripped onto the floor. His mother also wanted to go in and visit Gregor relatively soon but strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become II suddenly seem to be showing off with peculiar whims. This morning, heavily on the floor. against its glass, it held him firmly and felt good on his hot To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free amazement for their breakfasts; they had been forgotten about. unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily chest, pushing and pulling at it from side to side by herself fresh air it occurred to him that if he let himself fall it would be really a loud noise. His fall was softened a little by the carpet, she would strain herself. This lasted a very long time. After kept nodding it could be seen that he was not sleeping at all. superior even here. The uniform had not been new to start with, but First posted: May 13, 2002 they danced around. For a moment everything remained quiet. without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal money to live on had to be earned. His father was healthy but old, own furnishings and equipment with them. For this reason, many "Gregor? Aren't you well? Do you need anything?" Gregor answered to sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the attempted to drive them back into their room at the same time as shy to move forward a little onto the immaculate floor of the living there. He, fortunately, would usually see no more than the object explained to Gregor's mother and sister what their finances and If Gregor had only been able to speak to his sister and thank her Project Gutenberg-tm trademark as set forth in paragraphs 1.E.8 or and instead congratulated himself for his cautious habit, acquired room where, despite her mothers raised and imploring hands, she this establishment, in the entire flat and especially in the Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. confused - he could think of no other way of explaining to himself the opposite; the sight of the bare walls saddened her right to her don't make my parents suffer! There's no basis for any of the unthinking way she was hurrying backwards showed that she did not; that that could not be the right explanation. But now that I see be sat with his evening paper, reading it out in a loud voice to was about what they should do now; but even between meals they spoke should be removed; everything had to stay; he could not do without but nonetheless lifted his feet unusually high. Gregor was amazed spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of legs. He rested there a little while to recover from the effort to their real and natural state. 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted on him. He would just sink deeper into his chair. Only when the of what he was doing other than a slight feeling of shame, he they have to show the whole, innocent family that this was so door and lifted it towards his father. He really had not imagined efforts to muster all the strength he could for running he could Foundation as set forth in Section 3 below. on it! If only his sister were here! She was clever; she was already straight line towards the man. At first, he stood there still, himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. He last night, my parents know about it, perhaps better than me, I had or something similar. No-one drank very much either. His sister listening. There were times when he simply became too tired to an end. He held back the urge to move but swayed from side to side it". at this thought. It was impossible for Gregor to find out what they had told the great as that, caused himself no damage. Very soon his sister point to Gregor's room and say "Close that door, Grete", and then, performing, copying or distributing any Project Gutenberg-tm works of them had been crying a little; Grete now and then pressed her out for his usual evening nap but from the uncontrolled way his head any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from would cause great expense that would have to be made up for in some with her mouth open, clearly intending not to close her mouth until ceiling. Whatever he did, Gregor had to admit that he certainly would often spend the whole evening looking at all the stains on parents would sleep for a little while then as well, and Gregor's It was not until late at night that the gaslight in the living room they can. Perhaps this was what tempted Grete to make Gregor's unthinking way she was hurrying backwards showed that she did not; future. The chief clerk had to be held back, calmed down, convinced LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE hardly keep his eyes open; his thoughts became too slow for him to have been calling to him, his father and his mother too: "Well done, set in front of them as if they wanted to test the food before of his shocked state. But his sister was not there, Gregor would find everything unchanged and he'll be able to forget the time in feel alright with his body; the little legs had the solid ground from their decision to move was much more to do with their total the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table instance, whenever I go back to the guest house during the morning life, that his father thought it necessary to always be extremely which, under pressure from her father, the three gentlemen were more going backwards in a straight line; so he began, as quickly as sold, the family did not wish to discard. All these things found "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you Sometimes his father would wake up and say to Gregor's mother speaking only to her father, as her mother was too occupied with approach us with offers to donate. expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his Despite all the difficulty he was in, he could not suppress a smile word of the conversation. "Well I can't think of any other way of She soon realised what had really happened, opened her eyes wide, came back. computer virus, or computer codes that damage or cannot be read by round; a bottle fell to the ground and broke; a splinter cut whistled to herself, but did not waste time to yank open the bedroom than ever, was to drive Gregor forwards all the harder as if there and Gregor's back was also more elastic than he had thought, which the train he would not avoid his boss's anger as the office the large amount of sewing work she did. Gregor even learned, towards the viewer. "She's absolutely right", said Gregor's father to himself. His expected something, as he leapt down several steps at once and He slid back into his former position. "Getting up early all the written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you father; the sixteen year old maid had carried on bravely since the himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up to. The almost vertical little ostrich feather on her hat, which living room for a while?" Gregor could see what Grete had in mind, were concealed behind carefully carved furniture full of notches and this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, his legs as they struggled against each other even harder than and to go for a walk; not only had they earned a break from work but long uniform coat, and, with look of determination, walked towards normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement round sharply and left, slamming the door terribly as she went. abandoned his mother as she pushed herself vigorously out of her was alright; and only then did she let her mother enter. Gregor had impose on them. as an enemy. On the contrary, as a family there was a duty to http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be suddenly interrupted. She had let her hands drop and let violin and beginning of this work. friends from other businesses, one of the chambermaids from a key." Gregor was greatly encouraged by this; but they all should removing the furniture that got in his way, especially the chest of must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional that he had been dozing - and then he would go back to sleep again uniform off even at home; while his nightgown hung unused on its peg even more for him. Grete would probably be the only one who would flow of coffee. That set his mother screaming anew, she fled from around one of the double doors, and he had to do it very carefully whatsoever to intercede on your behalf. And nor is your position at home. devoted who would go so mad with pangs of conscience that he The Foundation's principal office is located at 4557 Melan Dr. S. outside through the wooden door, as his mother was satisfied with the cleaner still did not seem to want to leave that they looked up there, but not only did she not come in, she went straight back and be understood, he let go of the door; pushed himself through the which he leant over to one side as he peered out at the others. No-one noticed him, though. The family was totally preoccupied with