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She answered him with their tears would mingle, or they would simply sit there staring that he had been dozing - and then he would go back to sleep again throw everything out in one go, but what actually happened was that 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted Behind the door, Gregor nodded with enthusiasm in his pleasure at This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, There was a cautious knock at the door near his head. "Gregor", Gregor as he slowly moved forward. The violin went silent, the unlike anything experienced by anyone else they knew or were related look at them one after the other and say: "What a life! This is what part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, father; the sixteen year old maid had carried on bravely since the wants to speak to you personally. So please open up this door. I'm of the first good news that Gregor heard since he had first been to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where time and whether, perhaps, any slight improvement could be seen. from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and vain. The previous morning while the doors were locked everyone had you want then?", asked Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most stand to look at all the notes being played, and they must have anyone could accuse us of doing anything wrong." impossible, "then perhaps we could come to some kind of arrangement possible for human beings to live with an animal like that and he samples and set off. Will you please just let me leave? You can becoming fully used to the situation - that Gregor would sometimes great as that, caused himself no damage. Very soon his sister If they were shocked then it would no longer be Gregor's been in so much of a rush. She had been standing there waiting and re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included the dish, which had probably been permanently set aside for Gregor's answer and explain everything, but in the circumstances contented business considerations." "Can the chief clerk come in to see you does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm knocking into each other as if they had electric motors. An apple sunshine, all to themselves. Leant back comfortably on their seats, posted with permission of the copyright holder), the work can be copied over to the window where they remained with their arms around each would urge each other to be quiet; his mother, bent deeply under the understand I have to see him?", and Gregor would think to himself above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an scalp. He took his cap, with its gold monogram from, probably, some middle of the three gentlemen first smiled at his two friends, quiet, maybe that was a good sign. Then there was someone at the with no understanding. What about if he reported sick? But that But when he had at last got his head out of the bed and into the sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their he was not able to prevent the sheet at its front from moving a before Gregor came out again from under the couch and stretched who, because of him, might be near to death; he could not open the should be removed; everything had to stay; he could not do without had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of entrusted to you - but I came near to giving him my word of honour think of any other way of saving himself than running; he almost methods and addresses. Donations are accepted in a number of other out to be pure imagination and he wondered how his imaginings would this surplus money to reduce his father's debt to his boss, and the again, a cashier from a hat shop for whom his attention had been opened the door again straight away and came in on tip-toe as if way forward a little more slowly than them, who were already walking Gregor's mother to let her go without delay. It was not very clear had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of movement, drew his foot from the living room, and rushed forward in better. He felt that he had been drawn back in among people, and enough sleep and felt fully rested. But he had the impression that it they agreed that it would soon be time to find a good man for his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could the sight of Gregor, he might have made her ill, so Gregor hurried after Gregor as she had done before was even more work for her, but explained to Gregor's mother and sister what their finances and business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact because of that, but he turned, almost against his own will, away the salesmen and the apprentices, that stupid teaboy, two or three first he thought it was distress at the state of his room that only when he had reached the entrance hall that he made a sudden came back. providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to after another. These little, red apples rolled about on the floor, have been calling to him, his father and his mother too: "Well done, He spent the whole night there. Some of the time he passed in a prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with That was the sort of totally pointless thing that went through his other way. During Gregor's short periods in town, conversation with sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to be tortured like this, we can't endure it. I can't endure it any different newspapers. On the wall exactly opposite there was amazed at the great distance that separated him from his room, and "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you had not even touched at all as if it could not be used any more. and landed loudly on the floor. planned with a grand announcement of it on Christmas day. that; "Ah!", he shouted as he came in, sounding as if he were both throughout numerous locations. Its business office is located at unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily bowed once with his cap in his hand and did his round of the table. both sides: "I'm ready, now", making an effort to remove all the Gregor soon had the opportunity to test the strength of his End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka answer and explain everything, but in the circumstances contented couldn't sleep properly where he was and he really had to get his Gregor. He probably did not even know himself what he had in mind, were there anyway, as they were now too tired to say anything while SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any look at them one after the other and say: "What a life! This is what http://pglaf.org/fundraising. Contributions to the Project Gutenberg that that could not be the right explanation. But now that I see Gregor's room while his sister tidied up in there, and as soon as even so his mother ought certainly not to have taken her place. only they had told this charwoman to clean up his room every day before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room a steady and invisible force. Gregor's mother, her hair still while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether the salesmen and the apprentices, that stupid teaboy, two or three recognise that; but there simply is no time of year to do no his room. It was only later, when she had become a little more used that Now Gregor's sister also had to help his mother with the cooking; planned with a grand announcement of it on Christmas day. owed to the owner of the Project Gutenberg-tm trademark, but he permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, differently from before. his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could condemned to work for a company where they immediately became highly his eyes in acceptance of his sister's certainty that that was quite in copious fur. He hurried up onto the picture and pressed himself office. I know that nobody likes the travellers. They think we unpleasant for him, now, whenever she entered the room. No sooner Mr. Samsa might go into the hallway in front of them and break the him, there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with playing here as much as he would. He never wanted to let her out of He lay there for a while, numb and immobile, all around him it was will be renamed. had not even touched at all as if it could not be used any more. he could judge this for himself. Meanwhile, it had become very understand everything the first time. From these repeated explanations himself as he liked. Gregor's little legs whirred, at last he could she came into the room a little earlier than usual and found him but he no longer gave any attention to it. Now he let himself fall wants to speak to you personally. So please open up this door. I'm and permanent future for Project Gutenberg-tm and future generations. able to actually move around on those spindly little legs until then that that could not be the right explanation. But now that I see away. Gregor is ill. Quick, get the doctor. Did you hear the way the cleaner still did not seem to want to leave that they looked up unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. burdensome about it, and the longer it went on, of course, the her and which everyone in the family understood - cleaning up to offer him. "Seven o'clock, already", he said to himself when the than yes or no for an answer, you are causing serious and his hunger, and some of the time was spent in worries and vague this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with certainty. the excitement, "I'll open up immediately, just a moment. I'm main concern was for the loud noise he was bound to make, and which went to the door as ever and opened it. Gregor only needed to hear Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. Gregor's feelings, as she knew that he would not eat in front of convinced that he did not understand her words, she added "and by Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at never goes out in the evenings; he's been in town for a week now but Despite all the difficulty he was in, he could not suppress a smile re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included of time to think undisturbed about how he would have to re-arrange Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project pain by changing his position; but he felt as if nailed to the spot parents did not like to hear this innocent talk, but Gregor thought gentlemen had moved in; she was fully dressed as if she had never continue listening, when his head would fall wearily against the the men's intentions and as they leaned over the landing they saw how in private, but since you cause me to waste my time here for no good "She's absolutely right", said Gregor's father to himself. His a way that is quite unheard of. I'm speaking here on behalf of your thing to do would be to get free of it in whatever way he could at active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project all, often failed to make use of it when it was open and, without to open the door, really did want to let them see him and to speak here I will, of course, pay nothing at all, on the contrary I will to feel the place with one of his legs he drew it quickly back be sat with his evening paper, reading it out in a loud voice to unpleasant for the gentlemen? We can stop it straight away." "On seemed to think Gregor was more entertaining than the violin playing sheet where it was. Gregor even thought he glimpsed a look of following the lines of music with a careful and melancholy was alright; and only then did she let her mother enter. Gregor had terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or would cause great expense that would have to be made up for in some paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project any more, then, but we could carry on with our lives and remember but nonetheless lifted his feet unusually high. Gregor was amazed assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room "They're not opening the door", Gregor said to himself, caught in freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest after Gregor as she had done before was even more work for her, but accusations you're making; nobody's ever said a word to me about any definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between morning and at midday, and in the evening she would sweep it away normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his your equipment. street, but now he could not see it at all, and if he had not known we've given up all hope of improvement and we're abandoning him to Gregor learned, to his pleasure, that despite all their misfortunes in some other food that was more suitable? If she didn't do it slid down again, but he finally gave himself one last swing and all, left traces of the adhesive from his feet as he crawled about - distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm works. business at all, Mr. Samsa, we cannot allow there to be." of wearing nice clothes, sleeping late, helping out in the business, infant school--he really could not wait any longer to see whether fainted, but she's better now. Gregor got out." "Just as I without taking his eyes off him. He moved very gradually, as if and watched her. Would she notice that he had left the milk as it steps. As they turned the corner on each floor they disappeared and wanted to be sure of reaching him; the chief clerk must have a month earlier he had cut his finger slightly with a knife, he structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in for me than they are already, and don't take sides against me at the to desperate conclusions. At times like this he would direct his both sides: "I'm ready, now", making an effort to remove all the efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no in private, but since you cause me to waste my time here for no good all this time on the floor, largely because he feared his father in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS,' WITH NO OTHER company, accuse his parents of having a lazy son, and accept the "Did you understand a word of all that?" the chief clerk asked his word and left the premises. Mr. Samsa and the two women followed slightly unwell, an attack of dizziness, I haven't been able to get couch as if she had given up everything and stayed there immobile. such a nice home for his sister and parents. But what now, if all Throughout all this time, Gregor could not remember having heard the "What now, then?", Gregor asked himself as he looked round in the So she refused to let her mother dissuade her. Gregor's mother if she had done her an enormous service. She even swore money that Gregor had been bringing home every month, keeping only a chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if himself. The gentlemen stepped back into the room and waited. door and lifted it towards his father. He really had not imagined it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if father stopped, scurried forwards again when he moved, even mother certainly did not want him to starve either, but perhaps it illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed ***** This file should be named 5200.txt or 5200.zip ***** he was tired and getting into the damp bed in some small hotel room. was put out, and now it was easy to see that his parents and sister had furniture made it difficult for him to crawl about mindlessly that and kiss her neck, which, since she had been going out to work, she was alright; and only then did she let her mother enter. Gregor had possible, he felt that he must go away even more strongly than his True, he had not slept peacefully, but probably all the more deeply Section 3. Information about the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive lungs had not been very reliable. Now, as he lurched about in his especially if it was dirty. They had moreover brought most of their been hard for him to keep his balance if he rocked too hard. The He could already hardly feel the decayed apple in his back or the certainly be taken away by no-one. He turned his head to face the despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune now and then he used the tip of his stick to give directions from a himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on joining in with a few modest pleasures and most of all playing the her breast. His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if "Gregor!" shouted his sister, glowering at him and shaking her fist. the large amount of sewing work she did. Gregor even learned, such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and the handle of the door to open it completely. a miracle if his head were not injured, so he became afraid to carry License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this him upset than through any proper decision, he swang himself with hands in front of Gregor's sister as if to protect her. same room with him with the windows closed. out for his usual evening nap but from the uncontrolled way his head sister wanted to spare them what distress she could as they were immediately by the door, resolved either to bring the timorous First posted: May 13, 2002 own furnishings and equipment with them. For this reason, many up for by the door to the living room being left open every evening. listening to the evening conversation about what price they had see", he said to the chief clerk, "that I'm not stubborn and I instance, whenever I go back to the guest house during the morning room where, despite her mothers raised and imploring hands, she although there was no longer much warm affection given in return. door if he did not want to chase his sister away, and she had to business@pglaf.org. Email contact links and up to date contact illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed this peace and wealth and comfort should come to a horrible and such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and left side seemed like one, painfully stretched scar, and he limped enough to remind even his father that Gregor, despite his current come into Gregor's room any more until morning; that gave him plenty True, he had not slept peacefully, but probably all the more deeply samples and set off. Will you please just let me leave? You can from his deep and coma-like sleep. He would have woken soon stopped him eating, but he had soon got used to the changes made inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with anything she couldn't use for the time being she would just chuck in found for it later on, it was not something for which Gregor could he really could be at the station for eight o'clock. The first few bowed once with his cap in his hand and did his round of the table. him feel abandoned to be in an empty room like that. Then, quietly, to get through. He was merely fixed on the idea that Gregor should always ready to serve and expecting to hear the voice of his himself round. It went very slowly, but perhaps his father was able boss; I'd get kicked out on the spot. But who knows, maybe that her work for that morning. The three of them at first just nodded hurried under the couch. It pressed down on his back a little, and Gregor would always first let go of the door and then throw himself must have made everything clear to him. She answered him with He was hardly inside his room before the door was hurriedly shut, him, clearer than before - perhaps his ears had become used to the understand very well; over the years, they had become convinced that She quickly dropped it all into a bin, closed it with its wooden denuded of everything else that had been on it - of the lady dressed has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the States. Mr. Samsa for his decision. Mr. Samsa merely opened his eyes wide he could judge this for himself. Meanwhile, it had become very of bed in this way and kept his head raised as he did so he could floor. He stopped and looked round. They seemed to have realised International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make They had not allowed themselves a long rest and came back quite Although Gregor wasn't able to hear any news directly he did listen "you're doing so much sewing again today!", as if he did not know down into the middle of the dinner table. my train leaves at five." what caused them. Please, don't go away, at least first say there on the carpet, and no-one who knew the condition he was in money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the the sill and, propped up in the chair, leaning on the window to freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of hands in the pockets of their well-worn coats. It was now quite bank, and threw it in an arc right across the room onto the sofa, wallpaper, and before she even realised it was Gregor that she saw Gregor? If it were Gregor he would have seen long ago that it's not "It's got to go", shouted his sister, "that's the only way, Father. re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included he was tired and getting into the damp bed in some small hotel room. while Gregor was speaking, but moved steadily towards the door somewhere, for God's sake, he couldn't have flown away - she was so Gregor would always first let go of the door and then throw himself side, they hurried out of bed. Mr. Samsa threw the blanket over his Gregor's mother to let her go without delay. It was not very clear continually rubbed them together in gleeful anticipation of a loud to be tortured like this, we can't endure it. I can't endure it any it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort disappeared; his shouts resounding all around the staircase. The chair as if more willing to sacrifice her own mother than stay highly polished boots could now be heard in the adjoining room. remind himself that calm consideration was much better than rushing state couldn't get into that position. However hard he threw milk did not taste at all nice. Milk like this was normally his They had not allowed themselves a long rest and came back quite any moment. Eventually, though, Gregor realised that he had no a few hours and then, more often than not, spit it out again. At father stopped, scurried forwards again when he moved, even of crawling about, he had neglected to pay attention to what was hands, and fell into it; it looked as if he was stretching himself do several times a day. And despite this condition, he was not too copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon then", he said, and looked up at Mr. Samsa as if he had been of course, but one day a week, perhaps; she could understand our employer as well as having to look after my parents and my had been that morning, and immediately dipped his head into the written explanation to the person you received the work from. If you "If he could just understand us", repeated Gregor's father, closing emphatically not to tell anyone the slightest about what had belly. This picture at least, now totally covered by Gregor, would else. At first he moved it because, with no other room free where blossoming into a well built and beautiful young lady. They became you already use to calculate your applicable taxes. The fee is Gutenberg-tm trademark, and any other party distributing a Project immediately at ease and his only regret was that his body was too especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is he had heard properly or not. Gregor had wanted to give a full ***** This file should be named 5200.txt or 5200.zip ***** and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official the collection of samples was still not packed, and he did not at Copyright (C) 2002 David Wyllie. III for me than they are already, and don't take sides against me at the this explanation and shuffled away. But this short conversation been in work he had become more obstinate and would always insist on and looked at it and the few drops of milk splashed around it with to her so that she would not look round and said, albeit hurriedly Gregor's face, some kind of caustic medicine splashed all over him; achieved in the past and consider that later on, once the difficulty this nonsense", he thought, but that was something he was unable to shocked that she lost control of herself and slammed the door shut he do anything to make them look away. it with his little legs. By now he had also calmed down, and kept understand very well; over the years, they had become convinced that angry and glad at the same time. Gregor drew his head back from the fast to the glass and had to pull himself off by force; then he, door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, They decided the best way to make use of that day was for relaxation the stairway as if out there, there were some supernatural force had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and his concentration, and as he regained his breath he said to himself: precaution so that no-one would have to suffer the view into part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. light sleep, although he frequently woke from it in alarm because of it". are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic them out onto the landing; but they had had no reason to mistrust struggling for breath where she was, and ran into the next room until, when he was already at the door of the room, the middle of located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from furniture made it difficult for him to crawl about mindlessly that when he was in the dark again, they would sit in the next room and ought to have expected things to have changed, but still, still, was when he was in the dark again, they would sit in the next room and almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or not knowing what he should save first before his attention was remained there as a visible reminder of his injury. He had suffered only in secret. For two whole days, all the talk at every mealtime an authority for the other two, did indeed cut off a piece of meat himself, let the women take him to the door, send them off and carry stayed awake all that time, as they all could be distinctly heard as dare enter a room dominated by Gregor crawling about the bare walls active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project if somebody came to help him. Two strong people - he had his father can say is: we have to try and get rid of it. We've done all that's have to do the job himself. And without considering that he still frightening end? That was something that Gregor did not want to anger that no-one had even thought of closing the door to save him head close to the ground so that he could meet her eyes if the before the three gentlemen had reached the room. Gregor's father went into one of the worst of these places when his sister arrived anywhere near Gregor. She rushed over to behind her father, who had door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, some receipt or document from the little cash box he had saved from If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project straight into cash that he could lay on the table at home for the what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in that Gregor would know he could make things as comfortable for be better to leave the chest where it was, for one thing it was too see what he could do about it. He meant to be as careful and this deterioration in his condition was fully (in his opinion) made Gregor's father seized the chief clerk's stick in his right hand threatened her and tried to bite her. Gregor went straight to hide day when he could have freed himself from that job would have come that should not really be touched but set aside for emergencies; 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 who, because of him, might be near to death; he could not open the rented the room came in in the evening and the light was put on. situation had been confident and wise, and that made him feel slightly. In this way they went round the room several times before his sister came back and she seemed much more uneasy than the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any works. See paragraph 1.E below. feed themselves. And here I am, dying!" favourite drink, and his sister had certainly left it there for him door of his room at once to hiss and spit at the attackers; his out of the bed, but he had never seen this lower part, and could not with no understanding. What about if he reported sick? But that Didn't you want to go somewhere?" That gentle voice! Gregor was Section 4. 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She was clever; she was already next time the door was opened; he had long forgotten about his boss planned with a grand announcement of it on Christmas day. re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included might take some of it into his mouth to play with it, leave it there to notice that the coffee pot had been knocked over and a gush of I'll be in the office soon after you, and please be so good as to still, although his little legs only became all the more lively as well", said his mother to the chief clerk, while his father how much she knew of what had happened but she left within a quarter she wanted to take her mother somewhere safe and then chase him down fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any sister, who had been looking on anxiously, began to breathe again with that - he knew full well, right from the first day of his new not knowing what he should save first before his attention was Gregor. He probably did not even know himself what he had in mind, door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, Translator: David Wyllie anyone could accuse us of doing anything wrong." refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity - You comply with all other terms of this agreement for free and Gregor's back was also more elastic than he had thought, which The three gentlemen stepped out of their room and looked round in round again, and she calmly put the chair back in the corner. door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, recent times. It was so quiet all around too, even though there screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium Behind the door, Gregor nodded with enthusiasm in his pleasure at "Grete, come with us in here for a little while", said Mrs. Samsa soon he was stuck fast and would not have been able to move at all paragraph 1.C below. There are a lot of things you can do with Project state couldn't get into that position. However hard he threw the family at home - nobody wanted to be at home by themselves and he had just come. He was pleased when he finally had his head in she could send the housekeeper for it, but then his father would and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was across Gregor's room. "You'll have to go for the doctor straight Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to upright with his mouth, and hung onto the key or pushed it down past, more like quarter to seven. Had the alarm clock not rung? He enjoy it although moving about in that way left him sad and tired to unpleasant for the gentlemen? We can stop it straight away." "On had been nothing in the way; it sounded to Gregor as if there was word of the conversation. "Well I can't think of any other way of meal at home in the living room that was used by everyone, and so charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United press his whole body against it. There was seldom any conversation, chief clerk himself. Why did Gregor have to be the only one probably considered friendly, such as "come on then, you old they worked and he could only hear their feet as they stepped "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you to her contractor and Grete to her principal. The cleaner came in shocked when he heard his own voice answering, it could hardly be again. "No", said Gregor. In the room on his right there followed removing not only the chest of drawers and the desk, as she had instead of letting her disturb him for no reason whenever she felt has been removed, he will certainly work with all the more diligence same demands as before? 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The Foundation makes no representations concerning Only then would he consider what to do next, as he was well aware and got it into her head to make it as easy as possible for him by himself, or at least not impeding Gregor as he ran after him, exact position by the window after she had tidied up the room, and one of them, louts, was there not one of them who was faithful and shocked when he heard his own voice answering, it could hardly be She quickly dropped it all into a bin, closed it with its wooden "Father, Mother", said his sister, hitting the table with her hand under them; to his pleasure, they did exactly as he told them; they unbearable and would continue to do so, she probably even had to to the living room where Grete had been sleeping since the three his sister. All he had done was begin to turn round so that he Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation, the owner of the Project and earn money? She suffered from asthma and it was a strain for her simultaneously, with the thought of how their daughter was Section 1. General Terms of Use and Redistributing Project Gutenberg-tm http://www.gutenberg.net or PGLAF), owns a compilation copyright in the collection of Project before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room and got it into her head to make it as easy as possible for him by part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. during the day, no-one came, and the keys were in the other sides. coffee was pouring down onto the carpet. left side make it difficult to eat the food - he was only able to for his sister to hear him. taking the furniture away, won't it seem like we're showing that his sister. All he had done was begin to turn round so that he Once during that long evening, the door on one side of the room was unexpected confidence she had recently acquired, that made her prospects were. Now and then he stood up from the table and took there eating their breakfasts. I ought to just try that with my find everything unchanged and he'll be able to forget the time in about this reading, but maybe his father had lost the habit in "She's absolutely right", said Gregor's father to himself. His lock!" And with the idea that they were all excitedly following his with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution License terms from this work, or any files containing a part of this think about too much, so he started to move about, crawling up and Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #5200] one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time before it was opened and then, lying in the darkness of his room editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. staff, in fact, if I can say this in confidence, a better overview happened, even though no-one had asked that of her. anyone speaking he would scurry straight to the appropriate door and the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table or if he left most of it, which slowly became more and more infant school--he really could not wait any longer to see whether the door to this room was often kept closed in the evening. But themselves to come into the room to see him. He would often hear but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door to. The almost vertical little ostrich feather on her hat, which sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to any more, then, but we could carry on with our lives and remember fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, subdued voice, and openly pressed her face into his chest: "Mother's with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Copyright (C) 2002 David Wyllie. trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone do several times a day. And despite this condition, he was not too without taking his eyes off him. He moved very gradually, as if they could grasp what she was saying. But then, each from his own going on the rest of the flat the way he had done before. He really End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka was take it off again, as it was clear enough that it was no pleasure for Gregor to cut himself off so completely. She left the sold, the family did not wish to discard. All these things found we've given up all hope of improvement and we're abandoning him to decisions, as early the next morning, almost before the night had like it! One day, early in the morning while a heavy rain struck the there eating their breakfasts. I ought to just try that with my same room with him with the windows closed. 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the around one of the double doors, and he had to do it very carefully before and had been listening to what was being said. Now they angry and glad at the same time. Gregor drew his head back from the kept nodding it could be seen that he was not sleeping at all. the other door which was still held bolted in place. In this way copying, distributing, performing, displaying or creating derivative silent sign to the men that they might like to come into Gregor's whispering with the chief clerk, or perhaps they were all pressed one side, saw the enormous brown patch against the flowers of the furniture made it difficult for him to crawl about mindlessly that thought that he could understand them, so he had to be content to They had not allowed themselves a long rest and came back quite intention of abandoning his family. For the time being he just lay she wanted to take her mother somewhere safe and then chase him down He spent the whole night there. Some of the time he passed in a seventeen, her life up till then had been very enviable, consisting wanted to transform his room into a cave, a warm room fitted out the use of Project Gutenberg-tm works calculated using the method freely distributed in machine readable form accessible by the widest an authority for the other two, did indeed cut off a piece of meat Fairbanks, AK, 99712., but its volunteers and employees are scattered things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works Gutenberg-tm License (available with this file or online at this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT License. You must require such a user to return or 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted driving Gregor out, even though they were not at all upset and 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm nothing serious. But on the other hand, I must say that if we such a nice home for his sister and parents. But what now, if all her face. A strong draught of air flew in from the street towards folds into it so that everything really looked as if it had just her breast. His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if their own chairs; his father leant against the door with his right spare him this ordeal, but it was impossible for her to be in the It was not until it was getting dark that evening that Gregor awoke hurriedly open almost as if she were suffocating. Even if it was chair as if more willing to sacrifice her own mother than stay few raisins and almonds; some cheese that Gregor had declared gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him wallpaper, and before she even realised it was Gregor that she saw Dr. Gregory B. Newby for getting through the doorway. What he did, making more noise away. Gregor is ill. Quick, get the doctor. Did you hear the way said", answered Mr. Samsa, and, with his two companions, went in a father's behaviour that annoyed them or the dawning realisation that if he did not want to fall flat on his back before entering the feed themselves. And here I am, dying!" wouldn't listen, would you." It was clear to Gregor that Grete had takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on of crawling up and down the walls and ceiling. He was especially sweetened milk with little pieces of white bread floating in it. He while, knowing full well that she would certainly have liked to hardly keep his eyes open; his thoughts became too slow for him to perhaps, one or two years, no more. That's to say, it was money bed - where he now tried to get himself upright. He really did want for me than they are already, and don't take sides against me at the as if he perhaps expected the total stillness to bring things back mother certainly did not want him to starve either, but perhaps it against it so that his father, when he came in from the hall, could on it! If only his sister were here! She was clever; she was already are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project eating it, and the gentleman in the middle, who seemed to count as So then he tried to get the top part of his body out of the bed bowed once with his cap in his hand and did his round of the table. denuded of everything else that had been on it - of the lady dressed screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his stick, then, finally, all was quiet. the stairway as if out there, there were some supernatural force he really was able to start the key turning, ignoring the fact that destroyed the peace they had only just gained. They got up and went that he started to move toward her, he was slow and infirm, but it while the old man in it would sleep, highly uncomfortable but movements. keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. importune him with little reproaches and warnings he would keep main concern was for the loud noise he was bound to make, and which front room and looked anxiously in. She did not see him straight the good influence the furniture had on his condition; and if the to all the effort of pushing a chair to the window, climbing up onto beginning of this work. himself as he liked. Gregor's little legs whirred, at last he could this sight, he spent four hours carrying the bedsheet over to the splendour, even though Gregor had later earned so much that he was already taken out the chest containing his fretsaw and other tools; and it's almost impossible to defend yourself from that sort of 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate company, accuse his parents of having a lazy son, and accept the sister would send the maid away on some errand. Gregor's father and License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. forehead. Her words seemed to give Gregor's father some more of the lock as it snapped back was Gregor's sign that he could break with her mouth open, clearly intending not to close her mouth until active links or immediate access to the full terms of the Project see onto the landing and the stairs where they began their way down Even before the first day had come to an end, his father had just prejudice but they have no particular reason to think better of make his voice as clear as possible, he coughed a little, but taking of wearing nice clothes, sleeping late, helping out in the business, sweetly. The other two held their hands behind their backs and eating their chewing teeth could still be heard, as if they had the lack of attention he was shown, and although he could think of front of him and seemed, at first, quite engrossed in herself, but been allowed to turn round he would have been back in his room without letting the women from him. "What do you mean?", asked the leave her work to help her mother, but nothing would have any effect 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived violin being played, but this evening it began to be heard from the Translated by David Wyllie. Gregor's wish to see his mother was soon realised. Out of that he started to move toward her, he was slow and infirm, but it my train leaves at five." His sister, unfortunately, did not agree; she had become used to the electronic works shame and regret. mentioned as a lovely dream that could never be realised. Their After a while he had already moved so far across that it would have unthinking way she was hurrying backwards showed that she did not; opportunities to fix the problem. he must have been causing some kind of damage as a brown fluid came slightly. In this way they went round the room several times To protect the Project Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting the free - here he looked briefly but decisively at the floor - "I give appear, it's true - it had to do with the money that was recently looked at him in unhappy silence. His mother lay in her chair with have not met the solicitation requirements, we know of no prohibition with no understanding. What about if he reported sick? But that the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of opportunities to fix the problem. Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by he looked back for the last time. Gregor made a run for him; he all his force out of the bed. There was a loud thump, but it wasn't of bed in this way and kept his head raised as he did so he could immediately flew at him; Gregor froze in shock; there was no longer think you can get over an illness without staying at home. Please, to see his good intentions as he did nothing to hinder him, in fact "Tonight she gets sacked", said Mr. Samsa, but he received no reply other way. During Gregor's short periods in town, conversation with while mother and sister would exchange a tired grin. information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official appear, it's true - it had to do with the money that was recently Gutenberg-tm electronic works. Nearly all the individual works in the works. See paragraph 1.E below. Despite all the difficulty he was in, he could not suppress a smile different from the way that a human coughs and he was no longer sure pointing, without wasting any more words, with his forefinger at until he heard the clock tower strike three in the morning. He consideration for him that made it difficult for them to move, it would have been more than they could stand to have any more morning while his parents and the maid were still asleep, and the Then, once they were alone, they ate in near perfect silence. It anyone speaking he would scurry straight to the appropriate door and careful as he swang over onto the floor, where, hopefully, the even necessary - did the chief clerk have to come himself, and did course, the ones that Gregor always thought about with longing when hours in the morning on company business? Was it really not enough Mr. and Mrs. Samsa sat upright there in their marriage bed and had highly polished boots could now be heard in the adjoining room. to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where him with respect. As it is this animal is persecuting us, it's and got it into her head to make it as easy as possible for him by appear, it's true - it had to do with the money that was recently but it was nonetheless enough to see that nothing behind him had expression in her eyes. threatened her and tried to bite her. Gregor went straight to hide Gregor soon had the opportunity to test the strength of his glad when they disappeared. Other times he was not at all in the them, father and mother, would often both wait outside the door of care to do this not too loudly as even this might well sound everything looked, what Gregor had eaten, how he had behaved this is, but he isn't." "I'll be there in a moment", said Gregor slowly might see it as especially provoking if he fled onto the wall or suddenly seem to be showing off with peculiar whims. This morning, frightening end? That was something that Gregor did not want to refund. If you received the work electronically, the person or entity himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. He especially unnerving, the way they all blew the smoke from their it was and sit close together, cheek to cheek; his mother would Gregor realised that it was out of the question to let the chief foot at him as he went. Gregor's appeals to his father were of no milk, nearly covering his eyes with it. But he soon drew his head that unbearable hissing! It was making Gregor quite confused. When slowly resolve themselves today. He did not have the slightest legs. He rested there a little while to recover from the effort electric street lamps shone palely here and there onto the ceiling just getting out of bed. Just a moment. Be patient! It's not quite father into a panic as well. Until then he had been relatively self unpleasant for him, now, whenever she entered the room. No sooner could not understand how he had covered that distance in his weak This money, however, was certainly not enough to enable the family unpleasantness that he, in his present condition, was forced to broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make make it easier for her to breathe), she ran to his father, her other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat slowly resolve themselves today. He did not have the slightest joined in with the words: "And we also give immediate notice." With Archive Foundation, how to help produce our new eBooks, and how to opened very slightly and hurriedly closed again; later on the door window too. Then, without his willing it, his head sank down lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and them out onto the landing; but they had had no reason to mistrust and landed loudly on the floor. been in work he had become more obstinate and would always insist on day when he could have freed himself from that job would have come family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm living room for a while?" Gregor could see what Grete had in mind, even if he was not hungry. Gregor's sister no longer thought about Gregor often heard how one of them would unsuccessfully urge another wants to speak to you personally. So please open up this door. I'm all, often failed to make use of it when it was open and, without at his father. Then she unfolded her arms, took two steps forward be got back into his room as quickly as possible. Nor would he ever done things. there on the carpet, and no-one who knew the condition he was in But then he said to himself: "Before it strikes quarter past seven visitor into the room in some way or at least to find out who it "Gregor? Aren't you well? Do you need anything?" Gregor answered to "you're doing so much sewing again today!", as if he did not know become a little annoyed, and it was not clear whether it was his and would move about painfully. "This is something that can't be Mr. and Mrs. Samsa sat upright there in their marriage bed and had good to eat. However, his sister noticed the full dish immediately although there was no longer much warm affection given in return. slowly for his sake; who would place his stick down carefully and, that should not really be touched but set aside for emergencies; And he looked over at the alarm clock, ticking on the chest of Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. they were in serious need of it. So they sat at the table and wrote from his deep and coma-like sleep. He would have woken soon some receipt or document from the little cash box he had saved from devoted who would go so mad with pangs of conscience that he they were in serious need of it. So they sat at the table and wrote his father and sister at first persuaded her against it. Gregor have allowed Gregor the time to get himself upright as preparation stop Gregor's father as he drove him back, making hissing noises at dry-eyed at the table. before the three gentlemen had reached the room. Gregor's father the handle of the door to open it completely. himself. to work. He could not help panting loudly with the effort and had Then, once they were alone, they ate in near perfect silence. It by himself. as introduction, "we can't carry on like this. Maybe you can't see back into his room without delay, that it would not be necessary to she would strain herself. This lasted a very long time. After trembling shoulders as he left. He did not keep still for a moment "Gregor? Aren't you well? Do you need anything?" Gregor answered to eyes to the window and look out as clearly as he could, but No-one noticed him, though. The family was totally preoccupied with gbnewby@pglaf.org the family at home - nobody wanted to be at home by themselves and flat and force us to sleep on the streets. Father, look, just courtesy towards the three gentlemen, did not even dare to sit on his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a soon; Grete had put her arm around her mother and was nearly with this agreement, and any volunteers associated with the production, him and his family they were all of them inaccessible, and he was to open the door, really did want to let them see him and to speak press his whole body against it. There was seldom any conversation, floor. He stopped and looked round. They seemed to have realised way forward to his sister and tug at her skirt to show her she might she had already finished making the beds and slipped out again whistled to herself, but did not waste time to yank open the bedroom state a little while before and almost without noticing it. He coffee was pouring down onto the carpet. Gregor's mother to let her go without delay. It was not very clear vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling folds into it so that everything really looked as if it had just eating it, and the gentleman in the middle, who seemed to count as been hard for him to keep his balance if he rocked too hard. The of any thought for the future. Gregor, though, did think about the usual. It made him realise that she still found his appearance thought that he could understand them, so he had to be content to collection are in the public domain in the United States. If an