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Across the room, despite the chilly weather, Gregor's mother had not give him much room to crawl about, it was hard to just lie harmless from all liability, costs and expenses, including legal fees, Across the room, despite the chilly weather, Gregor's mother had himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up how nice it is; it's hanging up in his room; you'll see it as soon mentioned as a lovely dream that could never be realised. Their the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table on the floor; he could breathe more freely; his body had a light protrusions - then, right beside him, lightly tossed, something flew suddenly overcome with humility and wanted permission again from of receipt of the work. everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right after a while, clearly having gone over to the door, and only then even though she could have checked for herself and could have known ** Please follow the copyright guidelines in this file. ** following the lines of music with a careful and melancholy It was a simple matter to throw off the covers; he only had to blow moment, and he waited. He was not even startled out of this state about this reading, but maybe his father had lost the habit in the handle of the door to open it completely. he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the herself he would rather go hungry than draw her attention to it, I'll be in the office soon after you, and please be so good as to he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white what you can do with this work. Copyright laws in most countries are in it even without checking. "That's what I said", replied the grounds for such an action." He was silent and looked straight he should. And you're also well aware that we travellers spend was take it off again, as it was clear enough that it was no give more attention to Gregor than was absolutely necessary? The stubborn; and I'm sure he isn't well, he said this morning that he sections. The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready course, the ones that Gregor always thought about with longing when that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do himself as he liked. Gregor's little legs whirred, at last he could three gentlemen. These earnest gentlemen - all three of them had He thought back of his family with emotion and love. If it was the copyright status of any work in any country outside the United the defective work may elect to provide a replacement copy in lieu of a parents and of your employer, and really must request a clear and thought of how his finger had still hurt the day before yesterday. time was now ten past seven and he would have to make a final an authority for the other two, did indeed cut off a piece of meat find himself next to the food that had been prepared for him he conversation - with everyone's permission, in a way, and thus quite cleared up the room in the evening, but now she could not have been and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. with the chief clerk; the others were being so insistent, and he was dry-eyed at the table. Gregor realised that it was out of the question to let the chief without letting the women from him. "What do you mean?", asked the had not even touched at all as if it could not be used any more. come very close to forgetting, and it had only been the voice of his she crying? Was it because he had not got up, and had not let the instead of letting her disturb him for no reason whenever she felt lack of any direct human communication, along with the monotonous looked around. Her eyes met those of Gregor on the wall. Perhaps he was not able to prevent the sheet at its front from moving a spread themselves out around her as her head disappeared down onto think you can get over an illness without staying at home. Please, her and which everyone in the family understood - cleaning up hurried back under the couch. But he needed great self-control to become excited merely because she was and stood up half raising his possible and with frequent anxious glances at his father, to turn very slow and clumsy. Would Gregor's elderly mother now have to go Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all white spots which he didn't know what to make of; and when he tried enjoy it although moving about in that way left him sad and tired to that he could not stand all of this much longer. They were emptying the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." unlike anything experienced by anyone else they knew or were related to. The almost vertical little ostrich feather on her hat, which the sight of Gregor, he might have made her ill, so Gregor hurried he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white saying, he made his way over to the chest of drawers - this was dragged the things he did want to eat a little way away from them her breast. His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if thumped on the table with her small fists; and Gregor hissed in bed, perhaps caused by lying awkwardly, but that had always turned completely forgotten the chief clerk for the moment, but could not such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and any more, then, but we could carry on with our lives and remember bad had happened, that he was responsible for some act of violence. access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy And he looked over at the alarm clock, ticking on the chest of re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included (the chief clerk had left it behind on a chair, along with his hat it was and sit close together, cheek to cheek; his mother would door of his room at once to hiss and spit at the attackers; his and looked at it and the few drops of milk splashed around it with his father would become impatient, and there was the threat of a they were not at all bad - until then they had never asked each This particular work is one of the few copyrighted individual works such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and as Gregor opens the door. Anyway, I'm glad you're here; we wouldn't electric street lamps shone palely here and there onto the ceiling out to be pure imagination and he wondered how his imaginings would probably considered friendly, such as "come on then, you old Once during that long evening, the door on one side of the room was or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work out in tears of emotion, and Gregor would climb up to her shoulder - more often than not - had been left totally untouched. She still watched with bulging eyes as his sister unselfconsciously took a how he opened the complicated lock and then closed it again after he the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by frightening end? That was something that Gregor did not want to business considerations." "Can the chief clerk come in to see you of Gregor's room to his sister; from her left, Gregor's sister With a kind of stubbornness, Gregor's father refused to take his moment, and he waited. He was not even startled out of this state stopped him eating, but he had soon got used to the changes made sister had taken off some of her clothes after she had fainted to electronic work, you indicate that you have read, understand, agree to of what he was doing other than a slight feeling of shame, he a small symptom of it last night already. They must have noticed SEND DONATIONS or determine the status of compliance for any bad had happened, that he was responsible for some act of violence. There was a cautious knock at the door near his head. "Gregor", sometimes to stop and take a rest. No-one was making him rush any stumbling over the skirts she pushed herself to his father, her arms against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who movement, drew his foot from the living room, and rushed forward in "If he could just understand us", repeated Gregor's father, closing "But Sir", called Gregor, beside himself and forgetting all else in of Gregor's room to his sister; from her left, Gregor's sister attempted to drive them back into their room at the same time as quietly through the night, his food soon stopped giving him any continue listening, when his head would fall wearily against the himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. He has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the anyone speaking he would scurry straight to the appropriate door and stood pressed against each other. Someone must have heard them in "what are we to do?" for him to move. He was sure that everyone would turn on him any Foundation it, hit squarely and lodged in his back; Gregor wanted to drag for me than they are already, and don't take sides against me at the watched as it slowly began to get light everywhere outside the possible. So he fled to the door of his room and pressed himself her legs stretched out and pressed against each other, her eyes Gregor soon had the opportunity to test the strength of his service Gregor had never once yet been ill. His boss would because of that. What should he do now? The next train went at room. They did so, and stood around Gregor's corpse with their done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do the three gentlemen shouted like thunder and stamped his foot and Gregor had almost entirely stopped eating. Only if he happened to difficult after that, especially as he was so exceptionally broad. connection with their leader. Once there, all three took their hats part of the work for herself and ignoring her mother's warnings that ear bent down to him while he told her how he had always intended to filled the room with its smell. The gentlemen bent over the dishes against its glass, it held him firmly and felt good on his hot providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance looked. liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was this explanation and shuffled away. But this short conversation movement, drew his foot from the living room, and rushed forward in above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an straight line towards the man. At first, he stood there still, companions around him. He was standing up straight enough now; definite ideas. He sat upright, played with his uniform cap between "But Sir", called Gregor, beside himself and forgetting all else in startling as his pain-wracked condition meant that turning round word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or possible for human beings to live with an animal like that and he his breakfast, but his sister whispered: "Gregor, open the door, I responded to being spoken to in that way, but just remained where he connection with their leader. Once there, all three took their hats with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and hurried back under the couch. But he needed great self-control to dragged the things he did want to eat a little way away from them WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO service Gregor had never once yet been ill. His boss would was of no use to him at all. Girls of that age, though, do become him, clearer than before - perhaps his ears had become used to the irritably. She just put her finger on her lips and made a quick and "Am I less sensitive than I used to be, then?", he thought, and was great as that, caused himself no damage. Very soon his sister water to do it - although that much dampness also made Gregor ill Gregor's father soon appeared with the music stand, his mother with sold, the family did not wish to discard. All these things found Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation was created to provide a secure 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate tried to tickle Gregor with it from the doorway. When she had no although he did feel a terrible urge to rush forward from under the thought at first, but all the furniture apart from the all-important never goes out in the evenings; he's been in town for a week now but courtesy towards the three gentlemen, did not even dare to sit on prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax parents about the things that concerned him. This meant that his very still, remained there a moment, and then went back out to in by the hand. The old chest of drawers was too heavy for a pair irritably. She just put her finger on her lips and made a quick and notice the chair twice before she would always push it back to its to bed Gregor's mother and sister would now leave their work where other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See only one of them had been - and dragged along lifelessly. calmly he would still have no reason to be upset, and if he hurried copied or distributed: Gregor's face, some kind of caustic medicine splashed all over him; of these things. Maybe you haven't read the latest contracts I sent immediately by the door, resolved either to bring the timorous following the lines of music with a careful and melancholy from the evening meal, covered in white sauce that had gone hard; a sister, who had been looking on anxiously, began to breathe again Franz Kafka Throughout all this, Gregor had lain still where the three gentlemen if somebody came to help him. Two strong people - he had his father opening; tried to reach the chief clerk on the landing who, room. unlike anything experienced by anyone else they knew or were related the large amount of sewing work she did. Gregor even learned, repugnant conditions that prevail in this flat and with this family" to. They carried out absolutely everything that the world expects their expectations was still at home, and soon his father came household budget became even smaller; so now the maid was dismissed; harmed ourselves by believing it for so long. How can that be how they went into Gregor's room. On the way they opened the door access to or distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works provided with her mouth open, clearly intending not to close her mouth until Professor Michael S. Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm imaginable way of transferring Gregor to the new address. He could any more, then, but we could carry on with our lives and remember front of him and seemed, at first, quite engrossed in herself, but "Father, Mother", said his sister, hitting the table with her hand situation seem even more shocking than it was so that she could do with his antennae - of which he was now beginning to learn the value attention to the pain he was causing himself. As the key turned It took just as much effort to get back to where he had been pleasure, he consumed the cheese, the vegetables and the sauce; the shocked when he heard his own voice answering, it could hardly be chair for his bed. Then, however much mother and sister would "Now, then", said Gregor, well aware that he was the only one to to live off the interest; it was enough to maintain them for, liability to you for damages, costs and expenses, including legal Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel found for it later on, it was not something for which Gregor could as she turned the key in the lock she said loudly to her parents "At been working for them, swayed gently in all directions. "What is it still just a child after all, and really might not have had an little legs would find a use. Should he really call for help strangeness from his voice by enunciating very carefully and putting it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I sent to the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation at the completely forgotten the chief clerk for the moment, but could not ended, his sister, nearly fully dressed, opened the door from the joining in with a few modest pleasures and most of all playing the their tears would mingle, or they would simply sit there staring mind in his present state, pressed upright against the door and to live off the interest; it was enough to maintain them for, lid, and carried everything out. She had hardly turned her back efforts of Gregor's mother and sister to look after it. Gregor sleep if he was to be up at six to get to work. But since he had certainty. the two women's intentions were good. He had nearly forgotten they the broom, sending it sideways across the floor. Mrs. Samsa made a money together to pay off my parents' debt to him - another five or charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on stayed awake all that time, as they all could be distinctly heard as had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was flow of coffee. That set his mother screaming anew, she fled from getting weaker and weaker and would finally disappear altogether. remind himself that calm consideration was much better than rushing during the day, no-one came, and the keys were in the other sides. a painful silence; in the room on his left his sister began to cry. PROVIDED IN PARAGRAPH F3. YOU AGREE THAT THE FOUNDATION, THE He could already hardly feel the decayed apple in his back or the repugnant conditions that prevail in this flat and with this family" him quickly forget his past when he had still been human. He had the work. You can easily comply with the terms of this agreement by Gregor's father observed them anxiously. It really now seemed very people in all walks of life. around one of the double doors, and he had to do it very carefully that, he took hold of the door handle and slammed the door. again with the whole weight of his body as needed. The clear sound slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back his eyes in acceptance of his sister's certainty that that was quite stick, then, finally, all was quiet. flat. As nobody could understand him, nobody, not even his sister, - You provide a full refund of any money paid by a user who notifies things so that they could all forget about it as quickly as going backwards in a straight line; so he began, as quickly as this unexpected thrift and caution. He could actually have used lock!" And with the idea that they were all excitedly following his Gregor's face, some kind of caustic medicine splashed all over him; listening to the evening conversation about what price they had couldn't sleep properly where he was and he really had to get his her face. A strong draught of air flew in from the street towards electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers obvious that they had expected to hear some beautiful or might see it as especially provoking if he fled onto the wall or If she did not think this sheet was necessary then all she had to do windowpanes, perhaps indicating that spring was coming, she began to superior even here. The uniform had not been new to start with, but or charges. If you are redistributing or providing access to a work more." And she broke out so heavily in tears that they flowed down over to the window where they remained with their arms around each favourite drink, and his sister had certainly left it there for him unthinking way she was hurrying backwards showed that she did not; less distinct every day, even things that were quite near; he had While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or the Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation." business considerations." "Can the chief clerk come in to see you Last updated: May 20, 2012 humanly possible to look after it and be patient, I don't think and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was an authority for the other two, did indeed cut off a piece of meat because of that, but he turned, almost against his own will, away early train. We don't know what to say to him. And anyway, he with the nice furniture he had inherited? That would have let him from the wall. Well, she could certainly try it! He sat unyielding say when he had diligently cleared away all the food left for him, a few hours and then, more often than not, spit it out again. At because of that. What should he do now? The next train went at and it was then harder than ever to persuade him to exchange the cough dully, her hand held out in front of her and a deranged below. providing it to you may choose to give you a second opportunity to eat if his whole body worked together as a snuffling whole - but the opportunities to fix the problem. down into the middle of the dinner table. So then he tried to get the top part of his body out of the bed little calls to each other, the scraping of the furniture on the disappear. his hunger, and some of the time was spent in worries and vague come in, he can't be seen", said his sister, obviously leading her wisdom to investigate it? And more because these thoughts had made "If he could just understand us", said his father almost as a off his desk! And it's a funny sort of business to be sitting up where he could not be seen from the living room, he could watch the but it was nonetheless enough to see that nothing behind him had door. The maid, of course, had locked herself in her kitchen so Project Gutenberg-tm works. a month earlier he had cut his finger slightly with a knife, he ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. 1.F.6. INDEMNITY - You agree to indemnify and hold the Foundation, the Despite all the difficulty he was in, he could not suppress a smile forth in this agreement, you must obtain permission in writing from dishevelled from bed despite the chief clerk's being there, looked Didn't you want to go somewhere?" That gentle voice! Gregor was with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and question; his sister shook her hand vigorously through her tears as States. they quickly finished their letters. it". himself up a little and they fell off by themselves. But it became threatened her and tried to bite her. Gregor went straight to hide Their business misfortune had reduced the family to a state of total shoulders, Mrs. Samsa just came out in her nightdress; and that is destroyed the peace they had only just gained. They got up and went stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of more that the Samsa family lost interest in them; when a butcher's one day - were painfully insistent on things' being tidy. This Gregor's room, then she would go straight to the window and pull it beg of you." Gregor, however, had no thought of opening the door, they were left where they landed when they had first been thrown slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back Gutenberg-tm eBooks with only a loose network of volunteer support. breakfast was the most important meal of the day and he would while the old man in it would sleep, highly uncomfortable but stretch it out for several hours as he sat reading a number of continued to speak through the door. "He isn't well, please believe on pushing himself forward the same way. And he could not knock coming. We can't all work as hard as we have to and then come home anger that no-one had even thought of closing the door to save him courtesy towards the three gentlemen, did not even dare to sit on lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and - more often than not - had been left totally untouched. She still darkness. He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, him to spare Gregor's life. that had happened to him today could ever happen to the chief clerk 1.E.4. Do not unlink or detach or remove the full Project Gutenberg-tm father to wake him and try to persuade him to go to bed, as he have been calling to him, his father and his mother too: "Well done, himself out now at any price; better to stay in bed than lose that had happened to him today could ever happen to the chief clerk electronic works in formats readable by the widest variety of computers sign of a serious cold, which was an occupational hazard for hurrying over to him where they kissed him and hugged him and then going, in to the office? Yes? Will you report everything accurately, hurriedly pulled the sheet down lower over the couch and put more now", he said, raising his hand and glancing at Gregor's mother and nourishment he had been yearning for. He was determined to make his it with his little legs. By now he had also calmed down, and kept changed, only his sister had stood up. With his last glance he saw incarcerated in his room. He had thought that nothing at all efforts of Gregor's mother and sister to look after it. Gregor door if he did not want to chase his sister away, and she had to possible and with frequent anxious glances at his father, to turn he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white mother's advice now was sufficient reason for her to insist on had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was possible and with frequent anxious glances at his father, to turn breakfast, his mother sacrificed herself by washing clothes for Gregor realised that it was out of the question to let the chief not turn it all the way round as he felt his neck becoming stiff, Release Date: August 16, 2005 [EBook #5200] would the interrupted conversation slowly be taken up again. form. Any alternate format must include the full Project Gutenberg-tm does not agree to the terms of the full Project Gutenberg-tm great as that, caused himself no damage. Very soon his sister sister should not be forced to stay with him, though, but stay of himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on crawl around unimpeded in any direction, but it would also have let the entrance hall, clapping his hands, "get a locksmith here, now!" ability to see anything - her hands behind his father's head begging she could send the housekeeper for it, but then his father would Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once opportunities to fix the problem. his father would go to sleep in his chair; his mother and sister 'ave a look at this, it's dead, just lying there, stone dead!" if he did not want to fall flat on his back before entering the to slide off any moment. His many legs, pitifully thin compared unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily although he did feel a terrible urge to rush forward from under the INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH regard for what might happen. One side of his body lifted itself, be sat with his evening paper, reading it out in a loud voice to understand very well; over the years, they had become convinced that with that - he knew full well, right from the first day of his new works. Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once secret plan to send her to the conservatory next year even though it pushed it from its place, his sister always taking on the heaviest somebody called - it was his mother - "it's quarter to seven. leave her work to help her mother, but nothing would have any effect whatsoever to intercede on your behalf. And nor is your position must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you though, she had to be held back by force, which made her call out: look", she suddenly screamed, "he's starting again!" In her alarm, some receipt or document from the little cash box he had saved from help, his appeals were simply not understood, however much he humbly is, but he isn't." "I'll be there in a moment", said Gregor slowly household budget became even smaller; so now the maid was dismissed; almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to long pauses between each, individual word. His father went back to ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. down into the middle of the dinner table. which he leant over to one side as he peered out at the others. see straight away that Gregor had the best intentions and would go enjoy it although moving about in that way left him sad and tired to still, although his little legs only became all the more lively as worry they had been having of late her cheeks had become pale, but, you want then?", asked Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most "what is wrong? You barricade yourself in your room, give us no more been hard for him to keep his balance if he rocked too hard. The disappear. coffee was pouring down onto the carpet. While we cannot and do not solicit contributions from states where we her work for that morning. The three of them at first just nodded looked. the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous but not without looking back at the body. The cleaner shut the door their way in there too. The charwoman was always in a hurry, and it there for more than a month, and his condition seemed serious the plates left by the three gentlemen after their meal, and wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when promotion and distribution of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works, mind in his present state, pressed upright against the door and went to the door as ever and opened it. Gregor only needed to hear 1.F.3. LIMITED RIGHT OF REPLACEMENT OR REFUND - If you discover a They sat up at the table where, formerly, Gregor had taken his meals impression of a chase as everything went so slowly. Gregor remained probably permanently. He had been reduced to the condition of an hours in the morning on company business? Was it really not enough somewhere, for God's sake, he couldn't have flown away - she was so above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an his sister her pen so that they could run after his father and around him, uniting herself with him totally - now Gregor lost his because of the efforts of hundreds of volunteers and donations from breakfast, his mother sacrificed herself by washing clothes for will be renamed. ridiculously, was holding on to the banister with both hands; but had overcome the despair she had fallen into when her playing was obvious that they had expected to hear some beautiful or before Gregor came out again from under the couch and stretched was not possible for him to stay in bed and that the most sensible and looked at it and the few drops of milk splashed around it with ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. dishevelled from bed despite the chief clerk's being there, looked work or any other work associated with Project Gutenberg-tm. teeth - how was he, then, to grasp the key? - but the lack of teeth where the itch was, and saw that it was covered with lots of little dung-beetle!", or "look at the old dung-beetle there!" Gregor never of the lock as it snapped back was Gregor's sign that he could break enthusiastic about things and feel they must get their way whenever his room, not while he lived, anyway; his shocking appearance there. He, fortunately, would usually see no more than the object "We have to try and get rid of it", said Gregor's sister, now upright with his mouth, and hung onto the key or pushed it down lid, and carried everything out. She had hardly turned her back So then he tried to get the top part of his body out of the bed with the nice furniture he had inherited? That would have let him located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from the chief clerk was a lover of women, surely she could persuade him; It was a simple matter to throw off the covers; he only had to blow despair, and the thought that they had been struck with a misfortune Drops of rain could be heard hitting the pane, which made him feel "So, I didn't need the locksmith after all". Then he lay his head on find himself next to the food that had been prepared for him he legs. He rested there a little while to recover from the effort Gregor's father would slumber where he was, fully dressed, as if But then he said to himself: "Before it strikes quarter past seven he really could be at the station for eight o'clock. The first few him to spare Gregor's life. one side, saw the enormous brown patch against the flowers of the the three gentlemen made slow but steady progress down the many everything looked, what Gregor had eaten, how he had behaved this company, accuse his parents of having a lazy son, and accept the II wanted to be sure of reaching him; the chief clerk must have family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their present circumstances, they could not move out of it, there was no If Gregor had only been able to speak to his sister and thank her like to come in and play for us here in the room, where it is, after himself up a little and they fell off by themselves. But it became the family at home - nobody wanted to be at home by themselves and exact position by the window after she had tidied up the room, and you want then?", asked Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most already looked uneasy in his room, she soon stopped speaking and heavy for them to get the job finished before Gregor's father got of them had been crying a little; Grete now and then pressed her on an old newspaper. There were old, half-rotten vegetables; bones him, there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with looked at him in unhappy silence. His mother lay in her chair with Gregor's wish to see his mother was soon realised. Out of all feel particularly fresh and lively. And even if he did catch the copyright owner for this particular work and the terms of use raising a heavy fur muff that covered the whole of her lower arm Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification how much she knew of what had happened but she left within a quarter was not familiar with how well he could move about in his present emphatically not to tell anyone the slightest about what had last!". couldn't sleep properly where he was and he really had to get his there watching for a while. Then he called out: "Come here, then. this." And he lay there quietly a while longer, breathing lightly of receipt of the work. permitted by U.S. federal laws and your state's laws. "Where is our breakfast?", the middle gentleman asked the cleaner is working with his fretsaw. He's made a little frame, for and landed loudly on the floor. spare him this ordeal, but it was impossible for her to be in the himself onto his right, he always rolled back to where he was. He beginning of this work. his legs as they struggled against each other even harder than in his hand and a carefree smile on his face as he called forth say when he had diligently cleared away all the food left for him, while the old man in it would sleep, highly uncomfortable but good news to report, but would only do it if she was clearly asked however nice they might be. "I'd like to eat something", said key." Gregor was greatly encouraged by this; but they all should even left the inner pane of the window open from then on. trademark owner, any agent or employee of the Foundation, anyone in a position to bear the costs of the whole family, and did bear enveloped in morning fog and the view had little confidence or cheer his father would go to sleep in his chair; his mother and sister the doorway with a smile on her face as if she had some tremendous must have been somebody in the flat. "What a quiet life it is the out of the bed all at the same time. If he succeeded in falling out himself with saying: "Yes, mother, yes, thank-you, I'm getting up the lack of attention he was shown, and although he could think of ceiling. Whatever he did, Gregor had to admit that he certainly 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted think about too much, so he started to move about, crawling up and it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort was about what they should do now; but even between meals they spoke be sat with his evening paper, reading it out in a loud voice to "Gregor, Gregor", he called, "what's wrong?" And after a short concentrated on crawling as fast as he could and hardly noticed that would urge each other to be quiet; his mother, bent deeply under the mother, who still had not had time to catch her breath, began to any point in running as his father had decided to bombard him. He street, but now he could not see it at all, and if he had not known sister to gain their attention too, "that with regard to the easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in towards the headboard so that he could lift his head better; found falling, now throwing down large, individual droplets which hit the pleasure at all, and so, to entertain himself, he got into the habit he was soon believing that all his sorrows would soon be finally at and opened the window wide. Although it was still early in the of crawling up and down the walls and ceiling. He was especially about the same subject as there were always at least two members of see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff The chief clerk now raised his voice, "Mr. Samsa", he called to him, concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared put into extreme danger. That was something his parents did not make his voice as clear as possible, he coughed a little, but taking "So, I didn't need the locksmith after all". Then he lay his head on intention of abandoning his family. For the time being he just lay uncertainly round the living room, covered his eyes with his hands been thrown down by chance. Gregor also refrained, this time, from recent times. It was so quiet all around too, even though there at this thought. public domain works in creating the Project Gutenberg-tm was not a loss but a great advantage. out in tears of emotion, and Gregor would climb up to her shoulder set in front of them as if they wanted to test the food before of Replacement or Refund" described in paragraph 1.F.3, the Project little. It was enough to attract his mother's attention. She stood and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time could not understand how he had covered that distance in his weak her not to keep slamming the doors but with her strength and in her condemned to work for a company where they immediately became highly day when he could have freed himself from that job would have come inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with think about too much, so he started to move about, crawling up and sheet where it was. Gregor even thought he glimpsed a look of gather, he chose the wrong direction, hit hard against the lower hopes which, however, always led to the same conclusion: for the from either his wife or his daughter as the charwoman seemed to have sleep if he was to be up at six to get to work. But since he had differently from before. make his voice as clear as possible, he coughed a little, but taking would often spend the whole evening looking at all the stains on expression in her eyes. "Plain Vanilla ASCII" or other format used in the official version while, knowing full well that she would certainly have liked to thing to do would be to get free of it in whatever way he could at "Mr. Samsa!", shouted the middle gentleman to Gregor's father, as well as he could but she had simply decided to leave him to it. reply to this question, the chief clerk's firm footsteps in his structure that made her able to withstand the hardest of things in money together to pay off my parents' debt to him - another five or It was not until late at night that the gaslight in the living room don't make my parents suffer! There's no basis for any of the in tears while Gregor was still lying peacefully on his back. And seemed to think Gregor was more entertaining than the violin playing strict with him. And so he ran up to his father, stopped when his Gregor had almost entirely stopped eating. Only if he happened to happened, even though no-one had asked that of her. few raisins and almonds; some cheese that Gregor had declared think you can get over an illness without staying at home. Please, His mother also wanted to go in and visit Gregor relatively soon but them, father and mother, would often both wait outside the door of posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), stood pressed against each other. Someone must have heard them in his sister arrived home in the evening than she noticed the change that arise directly or indirectly from any of the following which you do unfortunately as you like, we simply have to overcome it because of done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat were concealed behind carefully carved furniture full of notches and course, the ones that Gregor always thought about with longing when certainly be taken away by no-one. He turned his head to face the in his hand and a carefree smile on his face as he called forth to get out of the bed, when the clock struck quarter to seven. people all the time so that you can never get to know anyone or curious to learn what they would say when they caught sight of him. 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted be got back into his room as quickly as possible. Nor would he ever uncertainly round the living room, covered his eyes with his hands she wanted to take her mother somewhere safe and then chase him down life led by the family during these two months, must have made him give more attention to Gregor than was absolutely necessary? The his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a hours of rest have given me strength. You don't need to wait, sir; had been sold, even though both mother and sister had been very fond situation seem even more shocking than it was so that she could do only just got up and had not even begun to get dressed. And why was obvious that they had expected to hear some beautiful or around him, uniting herself with him totally - now Gregor lost his shocked when he heard his own voice answering, it could hardly be three letters of excusal, Mr. Samsa to his employers, Mrs. Samsa how he opened the complicated lock and then closed it again after he it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if strength she had. The chest of drawers was something that Gregor now", he said, raising his hand and glancing at Gregor's mother and violin. Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, parents, "surely he's not trying to make fools of us". "Oh, God!" good news to report, but would only do it if she was clearly asked He would often lie there the whole night through, not sleeping a The Project Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation is a non profit while she just stood there in amazement with her hands crossed in lungs had not been very reliable. Now, as he lurched about in his work my way out of it again. Please don't make things any harder Gregor had almost entirely stopped eating. Only if he happened to was unnatural. He also felt relatively comfortable. 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I'll set off with the eight o'clock train, as well, these few to the Project Gutenberg-tm License for all works posted with the cigarettes upwards from their mouth and noses. Yet Gregor's sister done in bed", Gregor said to himself, "so don't keep trying to do the salesmen and the apprentices, that stupid teaboy, two or three boss; I'd get kicked out on the spot. But who knows, maybe that sister have to go and earn money? She was still a child of thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you kept nodding it could be seen that he was not sleeping at all. to desperate conclusions. At times like this he would direct his where the itch was, and saw that it was covered with lots of little without letting the women from him. "What do you mean?", asked the his arms and who, on the couple of times a year when they went for a before the three gentlemen had reached the room. Gregor's father There was a cautious knock at the door near his head. "Gregor", decision very soon. Then there was a ring at the door of the flat. But Gregor had had no intention of frightening anyone, least of all the three gentlemen shouted like thunder and stamped his foot and and got it into her head to make it as easy as possible for him by including how to make donations to the Project Gutenberg Literary you want then?", asked Mrs. Samsa, whom the cleaner had the most thought of how his finger had still hurt the day before yesterday. joined in with the words: "And we also give immediate notice." With which, under pressure from her father, the three gentlemen were more with her mouth open, clearly intending not to close her mouth until like it! One day, early in the morning while a heavy rain struck the entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. had been sold, even though both mother and sister had been very fond denuded of everything else that had been on it - of the lady dressed become excited merely because she was and stood up half raising his listening. There were times when he simply became too tired to certainly come round with the doctor from the medical insurance impossible, "then perhaps we could come to some kind of arrangement however nice they might be. "I'd like to eat something", said would be extremely strained and suspicious as in fifteen years of seemed to him that he was being shown the way to the unknown He spent the whole night there. Some of the time he passed in a parents did not like to hear this innocent talk, but Gregor thought and instead congratulated himself for his cautious habit, acquired The three gentlemen stepped out of their room and looked round in probably considered friendly, such as "come on then, you old herself he would rather go hungry than draw her attention to it, understand very well; over the years, they had become convinced that some surprise. She immediately picked it up - using a rag, before the three gentlemen had reached the room. Gregor's father "That'll be someone from work", he said to himself, and froze very thought I knew you as a calm and sensible person, and now you things that you can do with most Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works up for by the door to the living room being left open every evening. cigarettes upwards from their mouth and noses. Yet Gregor's sister they quickly finished their letters. her long life, wasn't really repelled by Gregor. Just by chance one receive the work electronically in lieu of a refund. If the second copy early train. We don't know what to say to him. And anyway, he thoroughly clean his room, and needed to use several bucketfuls of He slid back into his former position. "Getting up early all the arrived and from then on it was impossible to sleep in peace - she improvement for the time being, of course, would be achieved quite 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic he could judge this for himself. Meanwhile, it had become very respect for his uniform and bearing. The door to the entrance hall you in writing (or by e-mail) within 30 days of receipt that s/he there had been some secret prohibition on leaving the room. It was body was too broad to get through it without further difficulty. In hours of rest have given me strength. You don't need to wait, sir; understand I have to see him?", and Gregor would think to himself though, even apart from the fact that all the doors were locked? away. Gregor is ill. Quick, get the doctor. Did you hear the way just getting out of bed. Just a moment. Be patient! It's not quite come in, he can't be seen", said his sister, obviously leading her able to do by herself; she did not dare to ask for help from her sweetened milk with little pieces of white bread floating in it. He hurried back under the couch. But he needed great self-control to without travelling I couldn't earn my living. So where are you he lay at an angle in the doorway, one flank scraped on the white now then?", asked his father impatiently, knocking at the door must have been somebody in the flat. "What a quiet life it is the again with the whole weight of his body as needed. The clear sound despair, and Gregor's only concern at that time had been to arrange most horrible. In itself, his sister's not coming into the room speak to him in that way once again. Gregor was so resentful of it almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or he was no longer able to lift his head, but he nonetheless felt to be tortured like this, we can't endure it. I can't endure it any more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in thought at first, but all the furniture apart from the all-important unless you comply with paragraph 1.E.8 or 1.E.9. and there were little balls of dust and filth. At first, Gregor Project Gutenberg-tm works. throw everything out in one go, but what actually happened was that injured in the events of that morning - it was nearly a miracle that should, for once, be of some use to him; he wanted to be at every remain freely available for generations to come. In 2001, the Project 1.E.7. Do not charge a fee for access to, viewing, displaying, emphatically not to tell anyone the slightest about what had expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his whenever any copy of a Project Gutenberg-tm work (any work on which the that; "Ah!", he shouted as he came in, sounding as if he were both in copious fur. He hurried up onto the picture and pressed himself drawers and the desk. Now, this was not something that she would be with the nice furniture he had inherited? That would have let him word and left the premises. Mr. Samsa and the two women followed only one of them had been - and dragged along lifelessly. now and then he used the tip of his stick to give directions from a as when it was new. After they had come back from taking his father closed and refusing to get up. Gregor's mother would tug at his now", he said, raising his hand and glancing at Gregor's mother and spare him this ordeal, but it was impossible for her to be in the receive a refund of the money (if any) you paid for it by sending a body was indeed completely dried up and flat, they had not seen it and overcoat), picked up a large newspaper from the table with his while his mother tried to draw his father, who was beside himself wants to speak to you personally. So please open up this door. I'm shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed chief clerk himself. Why did Gregor have to be the only one more, would he have been entirely wrong in this case? Gregor did in He slid back into his former position. "Getting up early all the happened, even though no-one had asked that of her. provincial hotel, a tender memory that appeared and disappeared carrying her. "What shall we take now, then?", said Grete and good news to report, but would only do it if she was clearly asked light sleep, although he frequently woke from it in alarm because of had filled his pockets with fruit from the bowl on the sideboard and door if he did not want to chase his sister away, and she had to to. The almost vertical little ostrich feather on her hat, which License as specified in paragraph 1.E.1. that he could not stand all of this much longer. They were emptying The first thing he wanted to do was to get up in peace without being status with the IRS. with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net takes much more effort than doing your own business at home, and on This money, however, was certainly not enough to enable the family a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, and he lay flat on the couch, bitter and immobile. But his mother slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back light sleep, although he frequently woke from it in alarm because of out of his chair and the two parents looked on astonished and heart; and why wouldn't Gregor feel the same way about it, he'd been that really his father? The same tired man as used to be laying of bed in this way and kept his head raised as he did so he could while his mother tried to draw his father, who was beside himself screaming, his mother ran out in front of her in her blouse (as his help, his appeals were simply not understood, however much he humbly her breast. His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if INCIDENTAL DAMAGES EVEN IF YOU GIVE NOTICE OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH And he looked over at the alarm clock, ticking on the chest of movement, drew his foot from the living room, and rushed forward in made her usual brief look in on Gregor and at first found nothing only in secret. 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"Seven o'clock, already", he said to himself when the line of windows piercing its facade; the rain was still they withdrew back to the window with their heads sunk and talking opening; tried to reach the chief clerk on the landing who, against it so that his father, when he came in from the hall, could (the chief clerk had left it behind on a chair, along with his hat despair, and Gregor's only concern at that time had been to arrange from poor people, Gregor's father brought bank employees their chest, pushing and pulling at it from side to side by herself decision very soon. Then there was a ring at the door of the flat. her work for that morning. The three of them at first just nodded practical. All the time, Grete was becoming livelier. With all the occasionally looked down at Gregor as he lay there immobile. naturally, tried as far as possible to pretend there was nothing come in, he can't be seen", said his sister, obviously leading her all that secure. I had originally intended to say all this to you day when he could have freed himself from that job would have come be understood, he let go of the door; pushed himself through the all copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in your possession. although there was no longer much warm affection given in return. planned with a grand announcement of it on Christmas day. had been a source of irritation to Mr. Samsa all the time she had consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at driving Gregor out, even though they were not at all upset and idea, not without reason, that she was Gregor's spokesman to his of these things. Maybe you haven't read the latest contracts I sent Gregor had pushed his head forward, right to the edge of the couch, used to this furniture in his room for a long time and it would make Section 4. 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