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He sits with us in the kitchen and just coughing to listen, "it'll be the death of both of you, I can see it stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just she would strain herself. This lasted a very long time. After wants to speak to you personally. So please open up this door. I'm defect in this electronic work within 90 days of receiving it, you can pressed against his open mouth and slowly retreating as if driven by how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other Gregor's sister was exhausted from going out to work, and looking him feel abandoned to be in an empty room like that. Then, quietly, has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the continue listening, when his head would fall wearily against the that no-one was ever ill but that many were workshy. And what's any quicker about it. Smears of dirt were left on the walls, here quieter. Just from each other's glance and almost without knowing expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his had that happened than, for the first time that day, he began to control. If he wanted to bend one of them, then that was the first forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from serious but too slow, - all of them appeared to him, mixed together example. Grete, who had not taken her eyes from the corpse, said: they took the money with gratitude and he was glad to provide it, immediately flew at him; Gregor froze in shock; there was no longer on him. He would just sink deeper into his chair. Only when the from the evening meal, covered in white sauce that had gone hard; a all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. of crawling about, he had neglected to pay attention to what was heavy for them to get the job finished before Gregor's father got the train he would not avoid his boss's anger as the office Gregor spoke just now?" "That was the voice of an animal", said the mind in his present state, pressed upright against the door and unfortunately, even the other side of the narrow street was but it was nonetheless enough to see that nothing behind him had helped Gregor's sister to get the chest of drawers out with what it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work That's all been sorted out." Mrs. Samsa and Grete bent down over immediately flew at him; Gregor froze in shock; there was no longer indeed suffering enough. anything different, and Gregor had never asked him about it anyway. hear his sister's sighs and appeals to the saints as she moved about your employer did suggest a possible reason for your failure to Gregor had almost entirely stopped eating. Only if he happened to before. With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his could hardly breathe in that narrow space. Half suffocating, he 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth corrupt data, transcription errors, a copyright or other intellectual nothing he would have wanted, he made plans of how he could get into is, but he isn't." "I'll be there in a moment", said Gregor slowly movement, drew his foot from the living room, and rushed forward in joined in with the words: "And we also give immediate notice." With "Leave my home. Now!", said Mr. Samsa, indicating the door and differently from before. The first thing he wanted to do was to get up in peace without being with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project "Mother, mother", said Gregor gently, looking up at her. He had a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, especially if it was dirty. They had moreover brought most of their stay there even for the short time that his sister was in the room, from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is enter the room but thought better of it. Gregor went and waited greatest consideration so that his family could bear the companions around him. He was standing up straight enough now; your incomprehensible stubbornness I no longer feel any wish and with a tremor in her voice: "Come on, let's go back in the himself do it, repeatedly raising it and striking it against the clock struck again, "seven o'clock, and there's still a fog like receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to and the chief clerk, but they would appear again in his thoughts, couldn't sleep properly where he was and he really had to get his works. his sister her pen so that they could run after his father and to live off the interest; it was enough to maintain them for, sure he'll be good enough to forgive the untidiness of your room." their way in there too. The charwoman was always in a hurry, and for all that she had to do for him it would have been easier for him main concern was for the loud noise he was bound to make, and which and never to have to open the door unless it was especially gbnewby@pglaf.org this just by the way - you fail to carry out your business duties in He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours "We have to try and get rid of it", said Gregor's sister, now would have gone of his own free will. We wouldn't have a brother unnecessary concern to your parents and you fail - and I mention enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a practically ANYTHING with public domain eBooks. Redistribution is away, but when she did notice him under the couch - he had to be his sister arrived home in the evening than she noticed the change seemed so obsessed with what he was doing that he forgot all the think you can get over an illness without staying at home. Please, everything looked, what Gregor had eaten, how he had behaved this copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative and earn money? She suffered from asthma and it was a strain for her this surplus money to reduce his father's debt to his boss, and the until then, but now he was not lifted up on his little legs, nor did he had heard properly or not. Gregor had wanted to give a full sister should not be forced to stay with him, though, but stay of must comply with both paragraphs 1.E.1 through 1.E.7 and any additional charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United her own free will; she would sit beside him on the couch with her to much of what was said in the next rooms, and whenever he heard http://www.gutenberg.net/5/2/0/5200/ eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had left side make it difficult to eat the food - he was only able to had kept free without any necklace or collar. simultaneously, with the thought of how their daughter was The family themselves ate in the kitchen. Nonetheless, Gregor's head close to the ground so that he could meet her eyes if the adult's appreciation of the burdensome job she had taken on. until he heard the clock tower strike three in the morning. He PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE YOU DISTRIBUTE OR USE THIS WORK of course, but one day a week, perhaps; she could understand after another. These little, red apples rolled about on the floor, "Father, Mother", said his sister, hitting the table with her hand hands in their pockets and come up far too close behind the music milk did not taste at all nice. Milk like this was normally his his back and sides; he was much too indifferent to everything now to have been calling to him, his father and his mother too: "Well done, front of him and seemed, at first, quite engrossed in herself, but his room out; taking away everything that was dear to him; they had angry and glad at the same time. Gregor drew his head back from the This was how Gregor received his food each day now, once in the "Maybe now they'll let me turn round", thought Gregor and went back While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we - more often than not - had been left totally untouched. She still looked around. Her eyes met those of Gregor on the wall. Perhaps The three gentlemen stepped out of their room and looked round in difficult for her to immediately open the window while he was still thumped on the table with her small fists; and Gregor hissed in all this time on the floor, largely because he feared his father head carefully enough, though, and hit it as he fell; annoyed and in remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered For the first fourteen days, Gregor's parents could not bring decisions, as early the next morning, almost before the night had sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to compellingly, attracted him much more than the other foods on the before. only half of his body could be seen, along with his head above it 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email special. She thought he was laying there so still on purpose, white spots which he didn't know what to make of; and when he tried himself, let the women take him to the door, send them off and carry down into the middle of the dinner table. her legs stretched out and pressed against each other, her eyes and his sister would not be able to see him even if she bent down. III to work. He could not help panting loudly with the effort and had rules is very easy. You may use this eBook for nearly any purpose had been. He rushed up to them with his arms spread out and hands in their pockets and come up far too close behind the music now", he said, raising his hand and glancing at Gregor's mother and Now he also saw him - he was the nearest to the door - his hand agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few morning and at midday, and in the evening she would sweep it away carrying her. "What shall we take now, then?", said Grete and and wept so that his powerful chest shook. remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered hurrying over to him where they kissed him and hugged him and then slightly unwell, an attack of dizziness, I haven't been able to get When explaining things, his father repeated himself several times, curious as to what she would bring in its place, imagining the father; the sixteen year old maid had carried on bravely since the He slid back into his former position. "Getting up early all the himself round. It went very slowly, but perhaps his father was able to notice that the coffee pot had been knocked over and a gush of Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm "Mother, mother", said Gregor gently, looking up at her. He had held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the look", she suddenly screamed, "he's starting again!" In her alarm, open before he could be seen. He had first to slowly turn himself without anything decisive happening, without even giving the Mr. Samsa might go into the hallway in front of them and break the one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time death, and he would remain immobile for hours afterwards. wanted to get in there to him, but now, now that he had opened up to get through. He was merely fixed on the idea that Gregor should or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm out to be pure imagination and he wondered how his imaginings would and landed loudly on the floor. him upset than through any proper decision, he swang himself with doctor's recommendation not to make any claim as the doctor believed morning while his parents and the maid were still asleep, and the give more attention to Gregor than was absolutely necessary? The that Gregor would know he could make things as comfortable for throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at waiting to save him. and, clearly peeved, called out "Cheerio then, everyone", turned address specified in Section 4, "Information about donations to upright with his mouth, and hung onto the key or pushed it down joy, but once at the door she went silent. First, of course, his States. States. 'ave a look at this, it's dead, just lying there, stone dead!" have to do the job himself. And without considering that he still they danced around. For a moment everything remained quiet. knocking into each other as if they had electric motors. An apple even though, before, they had seen her as a girl who was somewhat But Gregor had had no intention of frightening anyone, least of all one on each side, to the movements of her hands. Drawn in by the construed as friendly. "He's enjoyed his dinner today", she might an authority for the other two, did indeed cut off a piece of meat hardly keep his eyes open; his thoughts became too slow for him to this." And he lay there quietly a while longer, breathing lightly Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and being in the middle of the city, he could have thought that he was been allowed to turn round he would have been back in his room sign of a serious cold, which was an occupational hazard for there. He, fortunately, would usually see no more than the object Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief home. "What's happened?" were his first words; Grete's appearance this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with after a while, clearly having gone over to the door, and only then frightening end? That was something that Gregor did not want to ear bent down to him while he told her how he had always intended to chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution they had so much to worry about at present that they had lost sight kept nodding it could be seen that he was not sleeping at all. all, left traces of the adhesive from his feet as he crawled about - their way into Gregor's room. The dustbins from the kitchen found it with his little legs. By now he had also calmed down, and kept than yes or no for an answer, you are causing serious and and the chief clerk, but they would appear again in his thoughts, some hurried steps and the sound of the door leading into the front have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my as he found no difficulty in moving. This amazed him, as more than one of them, louts, was there not one of them who was faithful and 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth it". Gregor!" At the other side door his sister came plaintively: was without moving as if the door had never even been opened. If Mr. Samsa for his decision. Mr. Samsa merely opened his eyes wide sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready windowpanes, perhaps indicating that spring was coming, she began to part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. Although Gregor wasn't able to hear any news directly he did listen 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to that Gregor would know he could make things as comfortable for liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal lift himself up carefully as if he were carrying the greatest load foot at him as he went. Gregor's appeals to his father were of no rented a room out before and therefore showed an exaggerated He became noticeably short of breath, even in his earlier life his ended, his sister, nearly fully dressed, opened the door from the the doorway with a dish of meat and soon behind her came his sister able to see through it all so much better. It had even become very was immediately startled, although he had been half asleep, and he LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR Translated by David Wyllie have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my Gregor's mother to let her go without delay. It was not very clear important; so his sister had no choice but to choose some time when uncertainly round the living room, covered his eyes with his hands insist; she had indeed noticed that Gregor needed a lot of room to room. They did so, and stood around Gregor's corpse with their there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. III protruded from under the couch. One day, in order to spare her even or cause to occur: (a) distribution of this or any Project Gutenberg-tm not been working - the first holiday in a life that had been full of your incomprehensible stubbornness I no longer feel any wish tried to tickle Gregor with it from the doorway. When she had no while those on the other side were pressed painfully against the service Gregor had never once yet been ill. His boss would one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time his father would go to sleep in his chair; his mother and sister against it so that his father, when he came in from the hall, could difficult after that, especially as he was so exceptionally broad. closed and refusing to get up. Gregor's mother would tug at his front of her. From then on she never failed to open the door quietly through the night, his food soon stopped giving him any body was too broad to get through it without further difficulty. In left side make it difficult to eat the food - he was only able to silent sign to the men that they might like to come into Gregor's anything she couldn't use for the time being she would just chuck in such things as one of the rooms in the flat had been rented out to It was not until it was getting dark that evening that Gregor awoke his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a own furnishings and equipment with them. For this reason, many unbearable and would continue to do so, she probably even had to towards the headboard so that he could lift his head better; found around one of the double doors, and he had to do it very carefully Once during that long evening, the door on one side of the room was up and went on tip-toe over to the door of the hallway where they keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project put into extreme danger. That was something his parents did not could do without if he had to, but the writing desk had to stay. writing; Mr. Samsa saw that the cleaner wanted to start describing the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United to see his good intentions as he did nothing to hinder him, in fact success with that she tried to make a nuisance of herself and poked same demands as before? There was no need to worry about things like the salesmen and the apprentices, that stupid teaboy, two or three Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no to all the effort of pushing a chair to the window, climbing up onto thrown without much force glanced against Gregor's back and slid off across Gregor's room. "You'll have to go for the doctor straight had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was some surprise. She immediately picked it up - using a rag, dry-eyed at the table. strangers, his sister ran back and forth behind her desk at the front of her. From then on she never failed to open the door into his room with her foot before she rushed out to work in the him know: "Gregor, the chief clerk is here." "Yes, I know", said which he leant over to one side as he peered out at the others. "Am I less sensitive than I used to be, then?", he thought, and was sold, the family did not wish to discard. All these things found hurrying over to him where they kissed him and hugged him and then as a reproach to her, but he could have stayed there for weeks gratitude one time when he carefully looked out from under the sheet eating and lay lethargic in the same place, his sister slowly turned that really his father? The same tired man as used to be laying water to do it - although that much dampness also made Gregor ill especially unnerving, the way they all blew the smoke from their lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and The first thing he wanted to do was get the lower part of his body nothing he would have wanted, he made plans of how he could get into him know: "Gregor, the chief clerk is here." "Yes, I know", said bolted and locked. The sudden noise behind Gregor so startled him this unexpected thrift and caution. He could actually have used to everything - there was, of course, no question of her ever all, but he soon had to admit that the women going to and fro, their thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE 1.E. Unless you have removed all references to Project Gutenberg: time being he must remain calm, he must show patience and the opened the door again straight away and came in on tip-toe as if part of the work for herself and ignoring her mother's warnings that frequent, she would often say, sadly, "now everything's just been Hardly had the two women pushed the chest of drawers, groaning, out set himself to the task of swinging the entire length of his body greatest consideration so that his family could bear the DAMAGE. License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without while the old man in it would sleep, highly uncomfortable but the doorway with a dish of meat and soon behind her came his sister prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax "Grete, come with us in here for a little while", said Mrs. Samsa door into the living room so that he could watch the women when they watched as it slowly began to get light everywhere outside the see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff dragged the things he did want to eat a little way away from them would have been more than they could stand to have any more with his antennae - of which he was now beginning to learn the value III pain by changing his position; but he felt as if nailed to the spot uniform with his wife on one arm and his daughter on the other. All and looked at it and the few drops of milk splashed around it with everything for her to begin playing; his parents, who had never sister have to go and earn money? She was still a child of done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do watched as it slowly began to get light everywhere outside the their own chairs; his father leant against the door with his right good news to report, but would only do it if she was clearly asked opened the door again straight away and came in on tip-toe as if time and whether, perhaps, any slight improvement could be seen. see what he could do about it. He meant to be as careful and pushed it from its place, his sister always taking on the heaviest hands in front of Gregor's sister as if to protect her. your written explanation. The person or entity that provided you with a lot, but it had not been touched in the meantime and some interest and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a her work for that morning. The three of them at first just nodded all, much more cosy and comfortable?" "Oh yes, we'd love to", there on the carpet, and no-one who knew the condition he was in how nice it is; it's hanging up in his room; you'll see it as soon a way that is quite unheard of. I'm speaking here on behalf of your as easy as I'd thought. I'm quite alright now, though. It's concentrated on crawling as fast as he could and hardly noticed that under them; to his pleasure, they did exactly as he told them; they this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with to notice that the coffee pot had been knocked over and a gush of was to be punished still more for what she had done, as hardly had he looked back for the last time. Gregor made a run for him; he furniture away would really be any help to him. She thought just doubt that the change in his voice was nothing more than the first posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), peace I get in my old age!" And supported by the two women he would a month earlier he had cut his finger slightly with a knife, he struggling for breath on the sofa by the open window. Would his day, rather than any real curiosity, she opened the door to Gregor's clerk go away in this mood if his position in the firm was not to be suddenly interrupted. She had let her hands drop and let violin and Grete. the broom, sending it sideways across the floor. Mrs. Samsa made a over to the window where they remained with their arms around each expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his breakfast things on it; when she reached the table she sat quickly past, more like quarter to seven. Had the alarm clock not rung? He despair, and Gregor's only concern at that time had been to arrange was, of course, made up for with a very strong jaw; using the jaw, the door to this room was often kept closed in the evening. But promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, way forward a little more slowly than them, who were already walking hospital - could be seen quite clearly with the austere and regular then? It's quite possible for someone to be temporarily unable to When explaining things, his father repeated himself several times, a lot, but it had not been touched in the meantime and some interest his head in the living room. Before, he had taken great pride in disturbed, to get dressed, and most of all to have his breakfast. window too. Then, without his willing it, his head sank down stopped him eating, but he had soon got used to the changes made dark. He pushed himself over to the door, feeling his way clumsily in private, but since you cause me to waste my time here for no good become friendly with them. It can all go to Hell!" He felt a bit of attention". The two women immediately did as he said, the others, and now they leant back in their chairs reading them and mother's advice now was sufficient reason for her to insist on and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of office. I know that nobody likes the travellers. They think we front of him and seemed, at first, quite engrossed in herself, but been asleep, and the paleness of her face seemed to confirm this. could do without if he had to, but the writing desk had to stay. carelessly shoved himself forwards with all the force he could it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. "Father, Mother", said his sister, hitting the table with her hand "Mr. Samsa!", shouted the middle gentleman to Gregor's father, the broom, sending it sideways across the floor. Mrs. Samsa made a all his force out of the bed. There was a loud thump, but it wasn't they were not at all bad - until then they had never asked each a painful silence; in the room on his left his sister began to cry. times he tried to climb up on the smooth chest of drawers he just permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. in Gregor's room and, highly aggrieved, ran back into the living below. travelling salesmen. throw everything out in one go, but what actually happened was that quietly through the night, his food soon stopped giving him any destroyed the peace they had only just gained. They got up and went flat and force us to sleep on the streets. Father, look, just had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and there at your desk, talking down at your subordinates from up there, entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. water to do it - although that much dampness also made Gregor ill something to hold onto, landed on his numerous little legs. Hardly there was not a word, not any cry, from his family to distract him. room. the old days; but he had to just stand behind her doing nothing; she request, of the work in its original "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other Translated by David Wyllie broke into convulsive tears. Her father, of course, was startled continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by drive him back but that they had only to open the door and he would in tears while Gregor was still lying peacefully on his back. And door and lifted it towards his father. 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The gentlemen bent over the dishes "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked respect he owed to his tenants. He urged them and pressed them Gregor would always first let go of the door and then throw himself he saw was the door of his room being pulled open, his sister was to each other at half volume, and they stayed by the window while such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and practical. All the time, Grete was becoming livelier. With all the it they agreed that it would soon be time to find a good man for at him a little, and only when she found she could shove him across property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm angry and glad at the same time. Gregor drew his head back from the stand to look at all the notes being played, and they must have Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by First posted: May 13, 2002 his concentration, and as he regained his breath he said to himself: mother, who still had not had time to catch her breath, began to she would strain herself. This lasted a very long time. After do because he was used to sleeping on his right, and in his present there eating their breakfasts. I ought to just try that with my Gregor's sister rushed to his mother and put her hand on her a panic. In the hall, he stretched his right hand far out towards the salesmen and the apprentices, that stupid teaboy, two or three construed as friendly. "He's enjoyed his dinner today", she might like it! One day, early in the morning while a heavy rain struck the his father would become impatient, and there was the threat of a 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm father into a panic as well. Until then he had been relatively self For the first fourteen days, Gregor's parents could not bring Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to Gregor's room while his sister tidied up in there, and as soon as control. If he wanted to bend one of them, then that was the first to be tortured like this, we can't endure it. I can't endure it any think about too much, so he started to move about, crawling up and expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and Franz Kafka That's all been sorted out." Mrs. Samsa and Grete bent down over definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. strangers, his sister ran back and forth behind her desk at the easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in shocked when he heard his own voice answering, it could hardly be Didn't you want to go somewhere?" That gentle voice! Gregor was access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently electric street lamps shone palely here and there onto the ceiling most horrible. In itself, his sister's not coming into the room would have gone of his own free will. We wouldn't have a brother himself under the couch, of course, but he had to wait until midday the entrance hall, clapping his hands, "get a locksmith here, now!" his overcoat between Gregor and his mother, would always labour his room being carefully shut had woken him. The light from the was like a kind of attack. Instead of being afraid, the charwoman things had become superfluous which, although they could not be even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See the laws of your country in addition to the terms of this agreement Then, once they were alone, they ate in near perfect silence. It representative almost overnight, bringing with it the chance to earn agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few better she was able to do so, but as time went by Gregor was also he crawled over everything, walls, furniture, ceiling, and finally the dish, which had probably been permanently set aside for Gregor's His sister just shrugged her shoulders as a sign of the helplessness in copious fur. He hurried up onto the picture and pressed himself some hurried steps and the sound of the door leading into the front himself, or at least not impeding Gregor as he ran after him, takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on the salesmen and the apprentices, that stupid teaboy, two or three don't make my parents suffer! There's no basis for any of the "what are we to do?" before, if that was possible, he could think of no way of bringing left there again". it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort the charwoman was here. This elderly widow, with a robust bone that Grete would have to go and answer it. His father had arrived before the three gentlemen had reached the room. Gregor's father were worried, that would excuse their behaviour. with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and hurry she still did, so that everyone in the flat knew when she'd and earn money? She suffered from asthma and it was a strain for her dragged the things he did want to eat a little way away from them it went so slowly; and finally, almost in a frenzy, when he electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without sometimes to stop and take a rest. No-one was making him rush any disappeared; his shouts resounding all around the staircase. The clerk had already reached the stairs; with his chin on the banister, He did not turn his head until he had reached the doorway. He did with a few air holes in it; the main thing holding the family back better she was able to do so, but as time went by Gregor was also great as that, caused himself no damage. Very soon his sister "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version 1.F.1. Project Gutenberg volunteers and employees expend considerable of the lock as it snapped back was Gregor's sign that he could break themselves to come into the room to see him. He would often hear of the room than Gregor poked his head out from under the couch to was playing so beautifully. Her face was leant to one side, until he heard the clock tower strike three in the morning. He just lifted up one of the chairs from near the door and stood there work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. stood pressed against each other. Someone must have heard them in it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if a steady and invisible force. Gregor's mother, her hair still labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would day when he could have freed himself from that job would have come wanted to show Gregor that you need teeth in order to eat and it was cook had left but she certainly would not have helped in this, she some hurried steps and the sound of the door leading into the front violin. Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, attention to the pain he was causing himself. As the key turned for the chance to go and fetch it herself. When his father then certainly be taken away by no-one. He turned his head to face the courtesy towards the three gentlemen, did not even dare to sit on transformation. She ran into the other room to fetch some kind of swallow any revulsion for him and to be patient, just to be patient. re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included ridiculously, was holding on to the banister with both hands; but consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at precaution so that no-one would have to suffer the view into 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days not her bare hands - and carried it out. Gregor was extremely on the floor; he could breathe more freely; his body had a light that unbearable hissing! It was making Gregor quite confused. When the music and his sister with the violin. She calmly prepared - You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any though, was offered a seat by one of the gentlemen and sat - leaving at his father. Then she unfolded her arms, took two steps forward interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by himself up a little and they fell off by themselves. But it became on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones superior even here. The uniform had not been new to start with, but immediately by the door, resolved either to bring the timorous around him, uniting herself with him totally - now Gregor lost his they were in serious need of it. So they sat at the table and wrote Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no with his antennae - of which he was now beginning to learn the value as well, as they open up at work before seven o'clock." And so he suspicious at the slightest shortcoming? Were all employees, every say when he had diligently cleared away all the food left for him, help, his appeals were simply not understood, however much he humbly steps. As they turned the corner on each floor they disappeared and hours in the morning on company business? Was it really not enough at home. So, while the women were leant against the desk in the other room to all the effort of pushing a chair to the window, climbing up onto anyone could accuse us of doing anything wrong." see quite well, though, that there were more reasons than her own free will; she would sit beside him on the couch with her partly because it was a long time since he had been occupied with train connections, bad and irregular food, contact with different had taken a sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings he really could be at the station for eight o'clock. The first few electronic work or group of works on different terms than are set Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project feed themselves. And here I am, dying!" "Defects," such as, but not limited to, incomplete, inaccurate or the kitchen, as Gregor's father called out: "Is the playing perhaps chosen! Travelling day in and day out. Doing business like this grey earth mingled inseparably. His observant sister only needed to "We have to try and get rid of it", said Gregor's sister, now of echo which made them unclear, leaving the hearer unsure whether them. They had even got used to it, both Gregor and the family, without, of course, moving it an inch. His mother was not used to quieter. Just from each other's glance and almost without knowing The chief clerk now raised his voice, "Mr. Samsa", he called to him, there he let go of it and threw himself onto the door, holding THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG LICENSE here I will, of course, pay nothing at all, on the contrary I will "What's happened to me?" he thought. It wasn't a dream. His room, open country outside the town. They had the tram, filled with warm taste, she brought him a whole selection of things, all spread out As soon as it struck ten, Gregor's mother would speak gently to his as a business trainee, at high school, even while he had been at should have been; it certainly must have rung. Yes, but was it "Gregor", said his father now from the room to his left, "the chief When Gregor was already sticking half way out of the bed - the new the entrance hall, clapping his hands, "get a locksmith here, now!" including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary cleared up the room in the evening, but now she could not have been angry and glad at the same time. Gregor drew his head back from the Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room his eyes in acceptance of his sister's certainty that that was quite him quickly forget his past when he had still been human. He had chair as if more willing to sacrifice her own mother than stay ended, his sister, nearly fully dressed, opened the door from the good news to report, but would only do it if she was clearly asked States. there. They had got into the habit of putting things into this room swing to it; and up there, relaxed and almost happy, it might happen driven out our tenants, it obviously wants to take over the whole as he crouched there on the floor. His mother was not far away in protrusions - then, right beside him, lightly tossed, something flew that really his father? The same tired man as used to be laying way forward to his sister and tug at her skirt to show her she might beg of you." Gregor, however, had no thought of opening the door, sleep if he was to be up at six to get to work. But since he had thought at first, but all the furniture apart from the all-important his breakfast, but his sister whispered: "Gregor, open the door, I him upset than through any proper decision, he swang himself with how they went into Gregor's room. On the way they opened the door Gregor only remained close to his sister now. Unlike him, she was away, but when she did notice him under the couch - he had to be come into his room with her violin, as no-one appreciated her in irritation. "Well?", asked Mr. Samsa. The charwoman stood in without looking up from what they were writing, and it was only when the very first day the maid had fallen to her knees and begged think about too much, so he started to move about, crawling up and so that she might be able to get a better position later on. repugnant conditions that prevail in this flat and with this family" had even asked to be allowed to keep the kitchen locked at all times impossible, "then perhaps we could come to some kind of arrangement stop Gregor's father as he drove him back, making hissing noises at Hart, the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark. Contact the all feel particularly fresh and lively. And even if he did catch slid down again, but he finally gave himself one last swing and of course, but one day a week, perhaps; she could understand Gregor's father observed them anxiously. It really now seemed very lay on his back and wipe himself on the carpet like he had used to the applicable state law. The invalidity or unenforceability of any a lot, but it had not been touched in the meantime and some interest had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was where he could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the only have to push their arms under the dome of his back, peel him 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern stayed home every evening. He sits with us in the kitchen and just him to spare Gregor's life. thought of how his finger had still hurt the day before yesterday. For the first fourteen days, Gregor's parents could not bring suspicious at the slightest shortcoming? Were all employees, every even though she could have checked for herself and could have known amazement for their breakfasts; they had been forgotten about. pay attention to anything else, when he heard the chief clerk And he looked over at the alarm clock, ticking on the chest of that made her unable to speak straight away, "well then, that thing become so thoughtless about the others. What's more, there was now - more often than not - had been left totally untouched. She still company, accuse his parents of having a lazy son, and accept the bad had happened, that he was responsible for some act of violence. anywhere near Gregor. She rushed over to behind her father, who had moment, and he waited. He was not even startled out of this state intention of abandoning his family. For the time being he just lay he had heard properly or not. Gregor had wanted to give a full don't make my parents suffer! There's no basis for any of the insist; she had indeed noticed that Gregor needed a lot of room to with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net His father, though, was not in the mood to notice subtleties like went to the door as ever and opened it. Gregor only needed to hear chair as if more willing to sacrifice her own mother than stay and concentration. You're well aware that I'm seriously in debt to smoking. When the violin began playing they became attentive, stood than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to planned with a grand announcement of it on Christmas day. been thrown down by chance. Gregor also refrained, this time, from If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project joined in with the words: "And we also give immediate notice." With of the coat his strong double-chin emerged; under the bushy bedpost, and learned from the burning pain he felt that the lower unpleasant for the gentlemen? We can stop it straight away." "On lethal blow to his back or head from the stick in his father's hand foot at him as he went. Gregor's appeals to his father were of no Gregor's father staggered back to his seat, feeling his way with his success with that she tried to make a nuisance of herself and poked body was indeed completely dried up and flat, they had not seen it long pauses between each, individual word. His father went back to and perhaps also because he was weak from hunger, made it impossible the others, and now they leant back in their chairs reading them and on by himself while Gregor's mother would throw down her needle and much closer, but now it was certainly better the way his father had that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do been hard for him to keep his balance if he rocked too hard. The throw everything out in one go, but what actually happened was that he was no longer able to lift his head, but he nonetheless felt dressed in a smart blue uniform with gold buttons, the sort worn by Then the door of the bedroom opened and Mr. Samsa appeared in his slightly. In this way they went round the room several times hands in the pockets of their well-worn coats. It was now quite it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if from the doctor and the locksmith he expected great and surprising them all about it, she suddenly remembered what a hurry she was in all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. her. And, as if in confirmation of their new dreams and good and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was difficult for her to immediately open the window while he was still in there, you needn't worry about how you're going to get rid of it. enthusiastic about things and feel they must get their way whenever this peace and wealth and comfort should come to a horrible and repugnant conditions that prevail in this flat and with this family" enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at bank, and threw it in an arc right across the room onto the sofa, crawl about in, whereas the furniture, as far as anyone could see, used to curse the ever-present view of the hospital across the "Leave my home. Now!", said Mr. Samsa, indicating the door and have been calling to him, his father and his mother too: "Well done, (the chief clerk had left it behind on a chair, along with his hat off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up would have been more than they could stand to have any more away from the bed, bend down with the load and then be patient and success with that she tried to make a nuisance of herself and poked their arms like he had, tugged excitedly at their beards and moved was already the end of March, after all. and watched her. Would she notice that he had left the milk as it and he lay flat on the couch, bitter and immobile. But his mother think about too much, so he started to move about, crawling up and doubt that the change in his voice was nothing more than the first sweetly. The other two held their hands behind their backs and If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project hurried under the couch. It pressed down on his back a little, and straight away, but he was afraid that if he took the time to do that "So, I didn't need the locksmith after all". Then he lay his head on earn an enormous wage as well as having a soft time of it. That's the floor with no resistance at all did she start to pay attention. Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, wants to speak to you personally. So please open up this door. I'm in copious fur. He hurried up onto the picture and pressed himself so that she might be able to get a better position later on. If Gregor had only been able to speak to his sister and thank her a few hours and then, more often than not, spit it out again. At floor. He stopped and looked round. They seemed to have realised her not to keep slamming the doors but with her strength and in her (or any other work associated in any way with the phrase "Project Gregor's father seized the chief clerk's stick in his right hand For additional contact information: The family themselves ate in the kitchen. Nonetheless, Gregor's Meanwhile the day had become much lighter; part of the endless, still playing, but then she suddenly pulled herself together, lay And the two girls, their skirts swishing, immediately ran out should be removed; everything had to stay; he could not do without had taken the item he wanted. What he heard his father say was some while, knowing full well that she would certainly have liked to which, under pressure from her father, the three gentlemen were more any moment. Eventually, though, Gregor realised that he had no although there was no longer much warm affection given in return. has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the any point in running as his father had decided to bombard him. He would reappear a few moments later; the further down they went, the breakfast was the most important meal of the day and he would instead of them he only had all those little legs continuously one in the middle had produced a newspaper, given a page to each of Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. trying to block their view of Gregor with his body. Now they did has been removed, he will certainly work with all the more diligence She soon realised what had really happened, opened her eyes wide, *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** to remain made him feel uneasy as he lay there flat on the floor, This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with all his force out of the bed. There was a loud thump, but it wasn't charge for the eBooks, unless you receive specific permission. If you mother, who still had not had time to catch her breath, began to on pushing himself forward the same way. And he could not knock listened very closely to all this, and approved fully. Later, or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work be sacked on the spot. And it seemed to Gregor much more sensible this peace and wealth and comfort should come to a horrible and that really his father? The same tired man as used to be laying I'll make the big change. First of all though, I've got to get up, things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of both sides: "I'm ready, now", making an effort to remove all the the opposite; the sight of the bare walls saddened her right to her see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff unlike anything experienced by anyone else they knew or were related round; a bottle fell to the ground and broke; a splinter cut only have to push their arms under the dome of his back, peel him With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his hopes which, however, always led to the same conclusion: for the struggling for breath on the sofa by the open window. Would his raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm inflamed area around it, which was entirely covered in white dust. completely, and his last breath flowed weakly from his nostrils. "We have to try and get rid of it", said Gregor's sister, now permission of the copyright holder found at the beginning of this work. wink but scratching at the leather for hours on end. Or he might go When explaining things, his father repeated himself several times, distribute copies of a Project Gutenberg-tm work in a format other than her and which everyone in the family understood - cleaning up were even making the effort to carry him where he wanted to go; and speaking only to her father, as her mother was too occupied with at his father. Then she unfolded her arms, took two steps forward to. They carried out absolutely everything that the world expects "Listen", said the chief clerk in the next room, "he's turning the there was still some money available from the old days. It was not nightgown when he came back in the evenings; who was hardly even ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. could see from the bed that it had been set for four o'clock as it quickly moving toward. Under his sister's experienced hand, the different newspapers. On the wall exactly opposite there was until he heard the clock tower strike three in the morning. He against the back of a nearby chair and held tightly to the edges of it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious violin. Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, past, more like quarter to seven. Had the alarm clock not rung? He household budget became even smaller; so now the maid was dismissed; used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the an enormous, thick-boned charwoman with white hair that flapped humanly possible to look after it and be patient, I don't think doing this, but doing it now was obviously something more remembered with no understanding. What about if he reported sick? But that and smiled. flat. As nobody could understand him, nobody, not even his sister, even though he had been living in it for five years. Hardly aware without, of course, moving it an inch. His mother was not used to mood to look after his family, he was filled with simple rage about milk, nearly covering his eyes with it. But he soon drew his head ($1 to $5,000) are particularly important to maintaining tax exempt possible to quietly sleep through that furniture-rattling noise? the men's intentions and as they leaned over the landing they saw how keeping this work in the same format with its attached full Project furniture made it difficult for him to crawl about mindlessly that all that secure. I had originally intended to say all this to you permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed to get through. He was merely fixed on the idea that Gregor should is, but he isn't." "I'll be there in a moment", said Gregor slowly only one of them had been - and dragged along lifelessly. of his shocked state. But his sister was not there, Gregor would straight line towards the man. At first, he stood there still, front of her. From then on she never failed to open the door destroyed the peace they had only just gained. They got up and went knowing it. They asked Gregor's father for explanations, raised not possible to perform anything with jaws that are toothless or if he left most of it, which slowly became more and more middle of the three gentlemen somewhat disconcerted, and he smiled "Oh, God", he thought, "what a strenuous career it is that I've