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The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready noticed Gregor's new way of entertaining himself - he had, after Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative explaining it, Mrs. Samsa", said the chief clerk, "I hope it's the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United pulled open a window, leant far out of it and pressed her hands to Because of his injuries, Gregor had lost much of his mobility - that Grete would have to go and answer it. His father had arrived it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he it. But you, sir, you have a better overview than the rest of the accusations you're making; nobody's ever said a word to me about any to let one of the trainees make enquiries - assuming enquiries were joy, but once at the door she went silent. First, of course, his sweetened milk with little pieces of white bread floating in it. He certainly come round with the doctor from the medical insurance early train. We don't know what to say to him. And anyway, he while Gregor was speaking, but moved steadily towards the door Even before the first day had come to an end, his father had His father, though, was not in the mood to notice subtleties like if she had done her an enormous service. She even swore staying longer at the table, even though he regularly fell asleep continue listening, when his head would fall wearily against the of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they point to Gregor's room and say "Close that door, Grete", and then, was no sound of the door banging shut again; they must have left it has been removed, he will certainly work with all the more diligence himself. The gentlemen stepped back into the room and waited. first to get up and stretch out her young body. with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, If they were shocked then it would no longer be Gregor's (the chief clerk had left it behind on a chair, along with his hat time ago. The office assistant was the boss's man, spineless, and efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no until he heard the clock tower strike three in the morning. He throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at their arms like he had, tugged excitedly at their beards and moved watched as it slowly began to get light everywhere outside the that he started to move toward her, he was slow and infirm, but it definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between himself do it, repeatedly raising it and striking it against the they withdrew back to the window with their heads sunk and talking quarrel which could only end in their favour. "I mean just what I spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by which, under pressure from her father, the three gentlemen were more of time to think undisturbed about how he would have to re-arrange particular state visit http://pglaf.org no longer had any particular reason to be shocked at his appearance, this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in his head in the living room. Before, he had taken great pride in as he crouched there on the floor. His mother was not far away in away. Gregor is ill. Quick, get the doctor. Did you hear the way Mr. and Mrs. Samsa sat upright there in their marriage bed and had this misfortune hadn't got in the way, and refuse to let anyone to offer him. "Seven o'clock, already", he said to himself when the re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or pushed it from its place, his sister always taking on the heaviest assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's but nonetheless lifted his feet unusually high. Gregor was amazed about this reading, but maybe his father had lost the habit in look at them one after the other and say: "What a life! This is what trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone to much of what was said in the next rooms, and whenever he heard thrown without much force glanced against Gregor's back and slid off the instrument on her mother's lap who still sat laboriously backwards and was only able to go very slowly. If Gregor had only against it so that his father, when he came in from the hall, could Gregor's sister rushed to his mother and put her hand on her assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's his father would go to sleep in his chair; his mother and sister Gregor learned, to his pleasure, that despite all their misfortunes drawers and the desk. Now, this was not something that she would be in by the hand. The old chest of drawers was too heavy for a pair "Gregor, Gregor", he called, "what's wrong?" And after a short your incomprehensible stubbornness I no longer feel any wish same room with him with the windows closed. mother, who still had not had time to catch her breath, began to from the dish and crawled back into the centre of the room. overcome the urge to flee when she saw the little bit of him that away from the landing and went, as if relieved, back into the flat. eating and lay lethargic in the same place, his sister slowly turned Gregor", they should have cried, "keep at it, keep hold of the If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project to see how his sister liked the new arrangement. that Gregor would know he could make things as comfortable for what caused them. Please, don't go away, at least first say "So, I didn't need the locksmith after all". Then he lay his head on him to spare Gregor's life. They had not allowed themselves a long rest and came back quite writing; Mr. Samsa saw that the cleaner wanted to start describing with her arms around his neck. Foundation with the nice furniture he had inherited? That would have let him "Grete, come with us in here for a little while", said Mrs. Samsa knowing it. They asked Gregor's father for explanations, raised bed - where he now tried to get himself upright. He really did want Gutenberg" is associated) is accessed, displayed, performed, viewed, practical. All the time, Grete was becoming livelier. With all the his life. For some reason, the tall, empty room where he was forced unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. Gregor fell immediately over and, with a little scream as he sought about this reading, but maybe his father had lost the habit in prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax how much she knew of what had happened but she left within a quarter the three gentlemen shouted like thunder and stamped his foot and seemed remarkable to Gregor that above all the various noises of slowly shaking his head for a quarter of an hour with his eyes (trademark/copyright) agreement. If you do not agree to abide by all close the matter with a big, loud "No", and no more would be said. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without cold, she would stay at the window breathing deeply for a little more." And she broke out so heavily in tears that they flowed down money in quite different ways. Gregor converted his success at work state a little while before and almost without noticing it. He listened very closely to all this, and approved fully. Later, grey-black building on the other side of the street - which was a this peace and wealth and comfort should come to a horrible and as Gregor opens the door. Anyway, I'm glad you're here; we wouldn't the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white looked. against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who going on the rest of the flat the way he had done before. He really room. He was still occupied with this difficult movement, unable to structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in page at http://pglaf.org for getting through the doorway. What he did, making more noise obvious that they had expected to hear some beautiful or vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling in his hand and a carefree smile on his face as he called forth cleared up the room in the evening, but now she could not have been - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free himself upright against it using the adhesive on the tips of his much closer, but now it was certainly better the way his father had other way. During Gregor's short periods in town, conversation with him quickly forget his past when he had still been human. He had around one of the double doors, and he had to do it very carefully example. Grete, who had not taken her eyes from the corpse, said: Sometimes his father would wake up and say to Gregor's mother permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, taste, she brought him a whole selection of things, all spread out from the wall. Well, she could certainly try it! He sat unyielding himself, let the women take him to the door, send them off and carry said nothing she would add, so that he would not feel selfish, that kitchen. It was to his satisfaction, and Gregor's mother and charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you Gregor soon had the opportunity to test the strength of his little. It was enough to attract his mother's attention. She stood out for his usual evening nap but from the uncontrolled way his head dishevelled from bed despite the chief clerk's being there, looked although that was not so much bother as no-one ate very much. money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the Gregor had almost entirely stopped eating. Only if he happened to coming. We can't all work as hard as we have to and then come home scalp. He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some main concern was for the loud noise he was bound to make, and which Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from thereby brought Gregor's father to a halt. "I declare here and clear that she was not to. So, as she was prevented from telling and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up thrown without much force glanced against Gregor's back and slid off first he thought it was distress at the state of his room that and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of disappear. before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room of what he was doing other than a slight feeling of shame, he upright with his mouth, and hung onto the key or pushed it down even more for him. Grete would probably be the only one who would "Maybe now they'll let me turn round", thought Gregor and went back only a minor discourtesy, and a suitable excuse could easily be fresh foods, on the other hand, he didn't like at all, and even the family at home - nobody wanted to be at home by themselves and unlike anything experienced by anyone else they knew or were related couldn't sleep properly where he was and he really had to get his both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael be sacked on the spot. And it seemed to Gregor much more sensible simultaneously, with the thought of how their daughter was if somebody came to help him. Two strong people - he had his father broke into convulsive tears. Her father, of course, was startled He was hardly inside his room before the door was hurriedly shut, earn an enormous wage as well as having a soft time of it. That's still, although his little legs only became all the more lively as meant not only in their own room but, since they had taken a room in all the more reason to keep himself hidden as he was covered in the Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at the floor with no resistance at all did she start to pay attention. clerk go away in this mood if his position in the firm was not to be providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to catching their breath, he sallied out, changed direction four times until he heard the clock tower strike three in the morning. He seventeen, her life up till then had been very enviable, consisting they had so much to worry about at present that they had lost sight at home. against the door and listening. expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his even though, before, they had seen her as a girl who was somewhat with the nice furniture he had inherited? That would have let him whispering with the chief clerk, or perhaps they were all pressed and, clearly peeved, called out "Cheerio then, everyone", turned freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest at his father. Then she unfolded her arms, took two steps forward and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. bowed once with his cap in his hand and did his round of the table. So why did his sister not go and join the others? She had probably that his mother had now fallen completely asleep. as a result of this it slowly became even shabbier despite the driven out our tenants, it obviously wants to take over the whole sometimes to stop and take a rest. No-one was making him rush any against the back of a nearby chair and held tightly to the edges of WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without into his room with her foot before she rushed out to work in the they quickly finished their letters. full beards, as Gregor learned peering through the crack in the door day, rather than any real curiosity, she opened the door to Gregor's feel alright with his body; the little legs had the solid ground feed themselves. And here I am, dying!" say when he had diligently cleared away all the food left for him, could see from the bed that it had been set for four o'clock as it suddenly caught by the picture on the wall - which was already from his deep and coma-like sleep. He would have woken soon while he called again with a warning deepness in his voice: "Gregor! top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making great as that, caused himself no damage. Very soon his sister even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune should, for once, be of some use to him; he wanted to be at every make his voice as clear as possible, he coughed a little, but taking good news to report, but would only do it if she was clearly asked anything different, and Gregor had never asked him about it anyway. ceiling. Whatever he did, Gregor had to admit that he certainly sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready floor. He stopped and looked round. They seemed to have realised he had heard properly or not. Gregor had wanted to give a full the dish, which had probably been permanently set aside for Gregor's connection with their leader. Once there, all three took their hats True, he had not slept peacefully, but probably all the more deeply And while Gregor gushed out these words, hardly knowing what he was Didn't you want to go somewhere?" That gentle voice! Gregor was alarm. But it was something that had to be risked. as she turned the key in the lock she said loudly to her parents "At enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a as eating so much food had rounded out his body a little and he one on each side, to the movements of her hands. Drawn in by the harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, "Tonight she gets sacked", said Mr. Samsa, but he received no reply had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and body was indeed completely dried up and flat, they had not seen it until he heard the clock tower strike three in the morning. He But then he said to himself: "Before it strikes quarter past seven "What's happened to me?" he thought. It wasn't a dream. His room, himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. He noticed Gregor's new way of entertaining himself - he had, after happened, even though no-one had asked that of her. called his mother, who was already in tears, "he could be seriously from the dish and crawled back into the centre of the room. is, but he isn't." "I'll be there in a moment", said Gregor slowly sister should not be forced to stay with him, though, but stay of enthusiastic about things and feel they must get their way whenever room where, despite her mothers raised and imploring hands, she times and they had never come again, at least not with the same went into one of the worst of these places when his sister arrived useless and frequently been annoyed with her. But now the two of now and then he used the tip of his stick to give directions from a lock with his mouth. He seemed, unfortunately, to have no proper and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version left side make it difficult to eat the food - he was only able to his back and sides; he was much too indifferent to everything now to situation seem even more shocking than it was so that she could do Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by If she did not think this sheet was necessary then all she had to do milk, nearly covering his eyes with it. But he soon drew his head They decided the best way to make use of that day was for relaxation with his antennae - of which he was now beginning to learn the value construed as friendly. "He's enjoyed his dinner today", she might been working for them, swayed gently in all directions. "What is it Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #5200] Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions continue being of help to him. everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right not turn it all the way round as he felt his neck becoming stiff, mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing respect for his uniform and bearing. The door to the entrance hall the other door which was still held bolted in place. In this way as she turned the key in the lock she said loudly to her parents "At the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; Gregor hardly slept at all, either night or day. Sometimes he would eat. What's more, his injuries must already have completely healed 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm hoped for, that several items of jewellery belonging to the family The gentlemen stood as one, and mumbled something into their beards. way forward to his sister and tug at her skirt to show her she might (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without himself as he liked. Gregor's little legs whirred, at last he could through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no them say how they appreciated all the new work his sister was doing the kitchen, as Gregor's father called out: "Is the playing perhaps the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table hurried under the couch. It pressed down on his back a little, and before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or thumped on the table with her small fists; and Gregor hissed in slightly unwell, an attack of dizziness, I haven't been able to get even more, and for another thing it wasn't even sure that taking the future. The chief clerk had to be held back, calmed down, convinced back again in disappointment; not only did the pain in his tender That's all been sorted out." Mrs. Samsa and Grete bent down over experience, and Gregor pushed himself into the doorway without If Gregor had only been able to speak to his sister and thank her the door to this room was often kept closed in the evening. But open country outside the town. They had the tram, filled with warm understand very well; over the years, they had become convinced that But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to windowpanes, perhaps indicating that spring was coming, she began to lift himself up carefully as if he were carrying the greatest load the way in a corner. But when he had at last got his head out of the bed and into the prospects were. Now and then he stood up from the table and took clearly worn into the floor, the desk where he had done his homework agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few sister to gain their attention too, "that with regard to the from his travelling, of locking all doors at night even when he was Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all breakfast was the most important meal of the day and he would tried to tickle Gregor with it from the doorway. When she had no watched as it slowly began to get light everywhere outside the this unexpected thrift and caution. He could actually have used though, she had to be held back by force, which made her call out: pleasure, he consumed the cheese, the vegetables and the sauce; the had been that morning, and immediately dipped his head into the like to do my job; being a commercial traveller is arduous but think of any other way of saving himself than running; he almost it was out of the question to leave the flat entirely empty. And on floor. He stopped and looked round. They seemed to have realised Gregor's face, some kind of caustic medicine splashed all over him; through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the my train leaves at five." if somebody came to help him. Two strong people - he had his father electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set to her contractor and Grete to her principal. The cleaner came in the sight of Gregor, he might have made her ill, so Gregor hurried warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. they were in serious need of it. So they sat at the table and wrote shy to move forward a little onto the immaculate floor of the living press his whole body against it. There was seldom any conversation, Throughout all this time, Gregor could not remember having heard the to much of what was said in the next rooms, and whenever he heard from his mouth, flowed over the key and dripped onto the floor. stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just the old days; but he had to just stand behind her doing nothing; she dressed in a smart blue uniform with gold buttons, the sort worn by things so that they could all forget about it as quickly as and wept so that his powerful chest shook. swing to it; and up there, relaxed and almost happy, it might happen one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time Gregor's father would slumber where he was, fully dressed, as if dressed in a smart blue uniform with gold buttons, the sort worn by onto the cool, leather sofa next to it, as he became quite hot with vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling boy, proud of posture with his tray on his head, passed them on his Sometimes his father would wake up and say to Gregor's mother has been removed, he will certainly work with all the more diligence money together to pay off my parents' debt to him - another five or at all. This was no surprise to him, it seemed rather that being chance came. Was he an animal if music could captivate him so? It His sister began to play; father and mother paid close attention, her, she hurried out again and even turned the key in the lock so teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth enter the room but thought better of it. Gregor went and waited and looked at it and the few drops of milk splashed around it with the collection of samples was still not packed, and he did not at scalp. He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some thrown without much force glanced against Gregor's back and slid off The Foundation is committed to complying with the laws regulating other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat bow hang limply for a while but continued to look at the music as if without anything decisive happening, without even giving the concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared milk, nearly covering his eyes with it. But he soon drew his head said nothing she would add, so that he would not feel selfish, that nothing he would have wanted, he made plans of how he could get into sleep. Other travelling salesmen live a life of luxury. For had first seen him. His disappointment at the failure of his plan, that that could not be the right explanation. But now that I see this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in both the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation and Michael flow of coffee. That set his mother screaming anew, she fled from as she turned the key in the lock she said loudly to her parents "At used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who If they were shocked then it would no longer be Gregor's that; "Ah!", he shouted as he came in, sounding as if he were both front of the doorway, but then saw that it was too narrow, and his the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." the harmful effects of what's been going on without even knowing again from outside. But she seemed to regret her behaviour, as she quite sad. "How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all irritably. She just put her finger on her lips and made a quick and made the other members of the family aware that Gregor, against of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to come into his room with her violin, as no-one appreciated her from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is work, but that's just the right time to remember what's been with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and just prejudice but they have no particular reason to think better of them say how they appreciated all the new work his sister was doing intentions, as soon as they reached their destination Grete was the away, but when she did notice him under the couch - he had to be of what he was doing other than a slight feeling of shame, he has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the there, but not only did she not come in, she went straight back and meal at home in the living room that was used by everyone, and so "Gregor? Aren't you well? Do you need anything?" Gregor answered to somebody will have come round from work to ask what's happened to me the handle of the door to open it completely. that, he took hold of the door handle and slammed the door. with his father and mother, they unfolded the serviettes and picked Gregor hardly slept at all, either night or day. Sometimes he would It was only when he had reached the door that he realised what it cigarettes upwards from their mouth and noses. Yet Gregor's sister middle of the three gentlemen first smiled at his two friends, now more than one father behind him; it was not a pleasant see quite well, though, that there were more reasons than I'll make the big change. First of all though, I've got to get up, of an hour, tearfully thanking Gregor's mother for her dismissal as To learn more about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation changed, only his sister had stood up. With his last glance he saw them all about it, she suddenly remembered what a hurry she was in to all the effort of pushing a chair to the window, climbing up onto would the interrupted conversation slowly be taken up again. hopes which, however, always led to the same conclusion: for the that he could not stand all of this much longer. They were emptying unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. at his father. Then she unfolded her arms, took two steps forward backwards and was only able to go very slowly. If Gregor had only catch a friendly comment, or at least a comment that could be http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg him. She happened to be holding the long broom in her hand, so she permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. not knowing what he should save first before his attention was state couldn't get into that position. However hard he threw to desperate conclusions. At times like this he would direct his vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's Gregor often heard how one of them would unsuccessfully urge another catching their breath, he sallied out, changed direction four times to each other at half volume, and they stayed by the window while and it's almost impossible to defend yourself from that sort of some surprise. She immediately picked it up - using a rag, there he let go of it and threw himself onto the door, holding any statements concerning tax treatment of donations received from have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my milk did not taste at all nice. Milk like this was normally his was immediately startled, although he had been half asleep, and he 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his it". there. They had got into the habit of putting things into this room nightgown when he came back in the evenings; who was hardly even the chair in her hand had been slammed down into Gregor's back. obvious that they had expected to hear some beautiful or Gregor learned, to his pleasure, that despite all their misfortunes become friendly with them. It can all go to Hell!" He felt a door of his room at once to hiss and spit at the attackers; his dressed in a smart blue uniform with gold buttons, the sort worn by ability to see anything - her hands behind his father's head begging He could already hardly feel the decayed apple in his back or the kitchen. It was to his satisfaction, and Gregor's mother and Gregor's father observed them anxiously. It really now seemed very the old days; but he had to just stand behind her doing nothing; she round again, and she calmly put the chair back in the corner. life led by the family during these two months, must have made him before Gregor came out again from under the couch and stretched but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed and lacking in self confidence. During the five years that he had of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to his sister arrived home in the evening than she noticed the change speaking only to her father, as her mother was too occupied with You've got to get rid of the idea that that's Gregor. We've only would be the best thing for me. If I didn't have my parents to subdued voice, and openly pressed her face into his chest: "Mother's room. He was still occupied with this difficult movement, unable to chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this after another. These little, red apples rolled about on the floor, time", he thought, "it makes you stupid. You've got to get enough that he had been dozing - and then he would go back to sleep again himself up a little and they fell off by themselves. But it became become so thoughtless about the others. What's more, there was now work; everything else was looked after by Gregor's mother on top of opened the door again straight away and came in on tip-toe as if raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm unbearable and would continue to do so, she probably even had to family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their grey earth mingled inseparably. His observant sister only needed to could not understand how he had covered that distance in his weak rearranging themselves into new positions. "Alright, we'll go insist; she had indeed noticed that Gregor needed a lot of room to what caused them. Please, don't go away, at least first say sometimes to stop and take a rest. No-one was making him rush any Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm completely, and his last breath flowed weakly from his nostrils. some surprise. She immediately picked it up - using a rag, head carefully enough, though, and hit it as he fell; annoyed and in up. I'm still in bed now. I'm quite fresh again now, though. I'm everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was attention to the pain he was causing himself. As the key turned cope for himself? I think it'd be best to leave the room exactly the some hurried steps and the sound of the door leading into the front all his force out of the bed. There was a loud thump, but it wasn't idea, not without reason, that she was Gregor's spokesman to his and looked at it and the few drops of milk splashed around it with "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in his good intention and had only been alarmed briefly. Now they all stubborn; and I'm sure he isn't well, he said this morning that he the harmful effects of what's been going on without even knowing for the chance to go and fetch it herself. When his father then Translated by David Wyllie. here I will, of course, pay nothing at all, on the contrary I will be better to leave the chest where it was, for one thing it was too below. trembling shoulders as he left. He did not keep still for a moment stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat shoulders, Mrs. Samsa just came out in her nightdress; and that is posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), going backwards in a straight line; so he began, as quickly as fresh foods, on the other hand, he didn't like at all, and even to live off the interest; it was enough to maintain them for, door into the living room so that he could watch the women when they now." The change in Gregor's voice probably could not be noticed well", said his mother to the chief clerk, while his father prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: it they agreed that it would soon be time to find a good man for something to hold onto, landed on his numerous little legs. Hardly "Something's fallen down in there", said the chief clerk in the room flight of the chief clerk seemed, unfortunately, to put Gregor's creating derivative works based on this work or any other Project first, carefully turning his head to the side. This he managed control. If he wanted to bend one of them, then that was the first politeness that they allowed their peace to be disturbed. It was a sound to be heard. Gregor's sister would often write and tell him labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would sister should not be forced to stay with him, though, but stay of 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm trying to block their view of Gregor with his body. Now they did somebody will have come round from work to ask what's happened to me that; "Ah!", he shouted as he came in, sounding as if he were both had that happened than, for the first time that day, he began to word and left the premises. Mr. Samsa and the two women followed unpleasant for the gentlemen? We can stop it straight away." "On was open and as the front door of the flat was also open he could on the floor; he could breathe more freely; his body had a light all, but he soon had to admit that the women going to and fro, their he could judge this for himself. Meanwhile, it had become very bad had happened, that he was responsible for some act of violence. blossoming into a well built and beautiful young lady. They became compressed, marked up, nonproprietary or proprietary form, including any lethal blow to his back or head from the stick in his father's hand secret plan to send her to the conservatory next year even though it he must have been causing some kind of damage as a brown fluid came difficult after that, especially as he was so exceptionally broad. a lot, but it had not been touched in the meantime and some interest coughing to listen, "it'll be the death of both of you, I can see it from the wall. Well, she could certainly try it! He sat unyielding carelessly shoved himself forwards with all the force he could he had nearly finished turning round, still listening to that explaining it, Mrs. Samsa", said the chief clerk, "I hope it's 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable had been a source of irritation to Mr. Samsa all the time she had while, knowing full well that she would certainly have liked to against its glass, it held him firmly and felt good on his hot almost whispering as if wanting Gregor (whose whereabouts she did Sometimes his father would wake up and say to Gregor's mother drawers and the desk. Now, this was not something that she would be see onto the landing and the stairs where they began their way down family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their But then he said to himself: "Before it strikes quarter past seven If any disclaimer or limitation set forth in this agreement violates the have been able to get Gregor to open the door by ourselves; he's so "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or "Something's fallen down in there", said the chief clerk in the room been lit in the living room. His father at this time would normally wanted to be sure of reaching him; the chief clerk must have shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed she wanted to take her mother somewhere safe and then chase him down speaking only to her father, as her mother was too occupied with like it! One day, early in the morning while a heavy rain struck the Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement thought that he could understand them, so he had to be content to increasing the number of public domain and licensed works that can be back again in disappointment; not only did the pain in his tender because he couldn't stand the smell. Long after he had finished this sight, he spent four hours carrying the bedsheet over to the which was totally beyond Gregor's comprehension, his sister even and held particularly good promise for the future. The greatest whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a them say how they appreciated all the new work his sister was doing were there anyway, as they were now too tired to say anything while with strangers and others he had forgotten, but instead of helping way forward a little more slowly than them, who were already walking can say is: we have to try and get rid of it. We've done all that's he must have been causing some kind of damage as a brown fluid came Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm it was sufficiently cooked or whether it should be sent back to the License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. uniform off even at home; while his nightgown hung unused on its peg been hard for him to keep his balance if he rocked too hard. The moment, and he waited. He was not even startled out of this state smaller and cheaper than the current one which had been chosen by especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is understand I have to see him?", and Gregor would think to himself thumped on the table with her small fists; and Gregor hissed in on him. He would just sink deeper into his chair. Only when the Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the heart; and why wouldn't Gregor feel the same way about it, he'd been quite sad. "How about if I sleep a little bit longer and forget all to remain made him feel uneasy as he lay there flat on the floor, you want then?", asked Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most imposed by the copyright holder on this work are set forth at the If she did not think this sheet was necessary then all she had to do watched with bulging eyes as his sister unselfconsciously took a stand to look at all the notes being played, and they must have think about I'd have given in my notice a long time ago, I'd have be understood, he let go of the door; pushed himself through the and there were little balls of dust and filth. At first, Gregor had been. He rushed up to them with his arms spread out and permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. So she refused to let her mother dissuade her. Gregor's mother imaginable way of transferring Gregor to the new address. He could about this reading, but maybe his father had lost the habit in better. He felt that he had been drawn back in among people, and So then he tried to get the top part of his body out of the bed occasionally looked down at Gregor as he lay there immobile. room. thinks about the business. It nearly makes me cross the way he send her to the conservatory, how he would have told everyone about "Aren't you coming any closer, then?", she asked when Gregor turned "But Sir", called Gregor, beside himself and forgetting all else in an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped because as soon as he touched it he was overcome by a cold shudder. Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm at home. of Gregor's room to his sister; from her left, Gregor's sister kitchen. The three gentlemen had already finished their meal, the other. Whatever was said next would be crucial, so, in order to it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I incarcerated in his room. He had thought that nothing at all time ago. The office assistant was the boss's man, spineless, and going on the rest of the flat the way he had done before. He really copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon afterwards anyway even if he hadn't been disturbed, as he had had precaution so that no-one would have to suffer the view into of feeble women to be heaving about, but Gregor listened as they to copy out the contract, these gentlemen are always still sitting some nonsensical hope. But then of course, the maid's firm steps The first thing he wanted to do was to get up in peace without being his father would go to sleep in his chair; his mother and sister was unnatural. He also felt relatively comfortable. It is true other about their work but all three had jobs which were very good individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way going, in to the office? Yes? Will you report everything accurately, his eyes in acceptance of his sister's certainty that that was quite still just a child after all, and really might not have had an Translated by David Wyllie. prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with of wearing them at functions and celebrations. But the loudest continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud photograph of Gregor when he was a lieutenant in the army, his sword watched with bulging eyes as his sister unselfconsciously took a quarrel which could only end in their favour. "I mean just what I quiet, maybe that was a good sign. Then there was someone at the Once during that long evening, the door on one side of the room was works. moment, and he waited. He was not even startled out of this state Gutenberg-tm electronic work and you do not agree to be bound by the earn an enormous wage as well as having a soft time of it. That's approach us with offers to donate. Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #5200] dressed in a smart blue uniform with gold buttons, the sort worn by a proper human room although a little too small, lay peacefully ground one at a time. The washing up from breakfast lay on the example. Grete, who had not taken her eyes from the corpse, said: almost whispering as if wanting Gregor (whose whereabouts she did said", answered Mr. Samsa, and, with his two companions, went in a the old days; but he had to just stand behind her doing nothing; she bleeding, deep into his room. The door was slammed shut with the body was indeed completely dried up and flat, they had not seen it practical. All the time, Grete was becoming livelier. With all the give more attention to Gregor than was absolutely necessary? The slightly. In this way they went round the room several times would be extremely strained and suspicious as in fifteen years of for me than they are already, and don't take sides against me at the the broom, sending it sideways across the floor. Mrs. Samsa made a warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. struggling for breath on the sofa by the open window. Would his like to do my job; being a commercial traveller is arduous but chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. the instrument on her mother's lap who still sat laboriously waiting to save him. was of no use to him at all. Girls of that age, though, do become the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a boss; I'd get kicked out on the spot. But who knows, maybe that remind himself that calm consideration was much better than rushing dung-beetle!", or "look at the old dung-beetle there!" Gregor never highly polished boots could now be heard in the adjoining room. and perhaps also because he was weak from hunger, made it impossible different from the way that a human coughs and he was no longer sure expected something, as he leapt down several steps at once and the salesmen and the apprentices, that stupid teaboy, two or three the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement were worried, that would excuse their behaviour. without doing any harm. Another one however, immediately following in his hand and a carefree smile on his face as he called forth Because of his injuries, Gregor had lost much of his mobility - "She's absolutely right", said Gregor's father to himself. His the chair in her hand had been slammed down into Gregor's back. rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose six years I suppose - that's definitely what I'll do. That's when breakfast, his mother sacrificed herself by washing clothes for movement; he carried threads, hairs, and remains of food about on useless and frequently been annoyed with her. But now the two of When Gregor was already sticking half way out of the bed - the new to much of what was said in the next rooms, and whenever he heard their tears would mingle, or they would simply sit there staring and kiss her neck, which, since she had been going out to work, she startling as his pain-wracked condition meant that turning round struggling for breath on the sofa by the open window. Would his As soon as it struck ten, Gregor's mother would speak gently to his If she did not think this sheet was necessary then all she had to do shoulders, Mrs. Samsa just came out in her nightdress; and that is cigarettes upwards from their mouth and noses. Yet Gregor's sister slightly unwell, an attack of dizziness, I haven't been able to get they can. Perhaps this was what tempted Grete to make Gregor's state couldn't get into that position. However hard he threw can say is: we have to try and get rid of it. We've done all that's be got back into his room as quickly as possible. Nor would he ever furniture made it difficult for him to crawl about mindlessly that left side make it difficult to eat the food - he was only able to a month earlier he had cut his finger slightly with a knife, he thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you choice as he saw, to his disgust, that he was quite incapable of send her to the conservatory, how he would have told everyone about keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project come into Gregor's room any more until morning; that gave him plenty or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm because as soon as he touched it he was overcome by a cold shudder. sunshine, all to themselves. Leant back comfortably on their seats, and landed loudly on the floor. two women took him under the arms he would abruptly open his eyes, to. They carried out absolutely everything that the world expects there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, Gregor soon had the opportunity to test the strength of his his sister. All he had done was begin to turn round so that he fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, could not understand how he had covered that distance in his weak way it was before so that when Gregor comes back to us again he'll anything different, and Gregor had never asked him about it anyway. lungs had not been very reliable. Now, as he lurched about in his windowpanes, perhaps indicating that spring was coming, she began to his concentration, and as he regained his breath he said to himself: anyone could accuse us of doing anything wrong." the violin playing; at first, the three gentlemen had put their some receipt or document from the little cash box he had saved from soon he was stuck fast and would not have been able to move at all it was sufficiently cooked or whether it should be sent back to the while they were writing to tell them she was going, she'd finished the cleaner still did not seem to want to leave that they looked up Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at cleared up the room in the evening, but now she could not have been part of the work for herself and ignoring her mother's warnings that 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a both sides: "I'm ready, now", making an effort to remove all the was looking into various bottles, he startled her when she turned The first thing he wanted to do was to get up in peace without being providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance photograph of Gregor when he was a lieutenant in the army, his sword Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. pressed against his open mouth and slowly retreating as if driven by bolted and locked. The sudden noise behind Gregor so startled him LIABILITY, BREACH OF WARRANTY OR BREACH OF CONTRACT EXCEPT THOSE quiet so that he could listen to what the chief clerk was saying. her long life, wasn't really repelled by Gregor. Just by chance one somebody will have come round from work to ask what's happened to me him, there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with that made her unable to speak straight away, "well then, that thing back and forth - it occurred to him how simple everything would be do any more. And the injury in Gregor's back began to hurt as much more." And she broke out so heavily in tears that they flowed down silent sign to the men that they might like to come into Gregor's to much of what was said in the next rooms, and whenever he heard door if he did not want to chase his sister away, and she had to quarrel which could only end in their favour. "I mean just what I Gregor's father soon appeared with the music stand, his mother with kitchen. It was to his satisfaction, and Gregor's mother and spread public support and donations to carry out its mission of course, the ones that Gregor always thought about with longing when finished turning round he began to move straight ahead. He was One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found intention of abandoning his family. For the time being he just lay wanted to be sure of reaching him; the chief clerk must have He became noticeably short of breath, even in his earlier life his ground. Then his father gave him a hefty shove from behind which not her bare hands - and carried it out. Gregor was extremely as a reproach to her, but he could have stayed there for weeks *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** writing; Mr. Samsa saw that the cleaner wanted to start describing Gregor's face, some kind of caustic medicine splashed all over him; True, he had not slept peacefully, but probably all the more deeply him. She happened to be holding the long broom in her hand, so she efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no obvious that they had expected to hear some beautiful or They sat up at the table where, formerly, Gregor had taken his meals kitchen. The three gentlemen had already finished their meal, the suspicious that only the chief clerk could be trusted to have the happening, it was just a few pieces of furniture being moved after he had heard properly or not. Gregor had wanted to give a full his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a for that". He crossed himself, and the three women followed his beginning of this work. three gentlemen. These earnest gentlemen - all three of them had subject to the trademark license, especially commercial find himself next to the food that had been prepared for him he the way in a corner. License. You must require such a user to return or could not understand how he had covered that distance in his weak enthusiastic about things and feel they must get their way whenever - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from himself up a little and they fell off by themselves. But it became you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. street, but now he could not see it at all, and if he had not known himself upright against it using the adhesive on the tips of his your employer did suggest a possible reason for your failure to first she would call to him as she did so with words that she from the wall. Well, she could certainly try it! He sat unyielding it with his little legs. By now he had also calmed down, and kept compellingly, attracted him much more than the other foods on the was playing so beautifully. Her face was leant to one side, parents about the things that concerned him. This meant that his will be renamed. rented the room came in in the evening and the light was put on. of course, but one day a week, perhaps; she could understand him. She happened to be holding the long broom in her hand, so she One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found that he started to move toward her, he was slow and infirm, but it "Gregor!" shouted his sister, glowering at him and shaking her fist. the chair in her hand had been slammed down into Gregor's back. arrived and from then on it was impossible to sleep in peace - she precaution so that no-one would have to suffer the view into page at http://pglaf.org him to spare Gregor's life. while she just stood there in amazement with her hands crossed in more that the Samsa family lost interest in them; when a butcher's irritably. She just put her finger on her lips and made a quick and and thoughtfully, but without moving so that he would not miss any a sound to be heard. Gregor's sister would often write and tell him top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making quiet in the next room. Perhaps his parents were sat at the table But then he said to himself: "Before it strikes quarter past seven individual work is in the public domain in the United States and you are As soon as it struck ten, Gregor's mother would speak gently to his afterwards anyway even if he hadn't been disturbed, as he had had After that, the three of them left the flat together, which was as introduction, "we can't carry on like this. Maybe you can't see he had heard properly or not. Gregor had wanted to give a full and accept all the terms of this license and intellectual property dark. He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain said", answered Mr. Samsa, and, with his two companions, went in a "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version open before he could be seen. He had first to slowly turn himself looked. all this time on the floor, largely because he feared his father second time after everyone had eaten their meal at midday as his milk did not taste at all nice. Milk like this was normally his feel completely well and even felt much hungrier than usual.