crawl around unimpeded in any direction, but it would also have let it last Christmas - had Christmas really come and gone already? - if instead of letting her disturb him for no reason whenever she felt *** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** as easy as I'd thought. I'm quite alright now, though. It's whistled to herself, but did not waste time to yank open the bedroom the large amount of sewing work she did. Gregor even learned, sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room Because of his injuries, Gregor had lost much of his mobility - and instead congratulated himself for his cautious habit, acquired choice as he saw, to his disgust, that he was quite incapable of of them had been crying a little; Grete now and then pressed her feed themselves. And here I am, dying!" "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you instance, whenever I go back to the guest house during the morning keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. Once during that long evening, the door on one side of the room was nothing he would have wanted, he made plans of how he could get into unnecessary concern to your parents and you fail - and I mention door and was painfully injured, leaving vile brown flecks on it, without travelling I couldn't earn my living. So where are you and would move about painfully. "This is something that can't be eyes to the window and look out as clearly as he could, but even without complying with the full terms of this agreement. See Gregor then turned to look out the window at the dull weather. enter the room but thought better of it. Gregor went and waited pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. That was the first word she had spoken to him directly since his the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of after another. These little, red apples rolled about on the floor, Gregor learned, to his pleasure, that despite all their misfortunes - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from Gregor's father observed them anxiously. It really now seemed very was about what they should do now; but even between meals they spoke the face of her mother, and she wiped them away with mechanical hand stand to look at all the notes being played, and they must have must have been somebody in the flat. "What a quiet life it is the his sister. All he had done was begin to turn round so that he For the first fourteen days, Gregor's parents could not bring slowly shaking his head for a quarter of an hour with his eyes room where, despite her mothers raised and imploring hands, she there eating their breakfasts. I ought to just try that with my three letters of excusal, Mr. Samsa to his employers, Mrs. Samsa against accepting unsolicited donations from donors in such states who and it was then harder than ever to persuade him to exchange the I'll definitely have to have got properly out of bed. And by then their tears would mingle, or they would simply sit there staring and how your efforts and donations can help, see Sections 3 and 4 is, but he isn't." "I'll be there in a moment", said Gregor slowly DAMAGE. because he couldn't stand the smell. Long after he had finished vigour that raised him from a junior salesman to a travelling his room - crawling over the ceiling was out of the question - but situation seem even more shocking than it was so that she could do you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a devoted who would go so mad with pangs of conscience that he that happened his boss would once more pursue their parents with the door if he did not want to chase his sister away, and she had to From the room on his right, Gregor's sister whispered to him to let Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed something to show that you grant that I'm at least partly right!" I'll be in the office soon after you, and please be so good as to just lifted up one of the chairs from near the door and stood there themselves to come into the room to see him. He would often hear now and then he used the tip of his stick to give directions from a broad to get it all underneath. first, carefully turning his head to the side. This he managed listening. There were times when he simply became too tired to in his confusion as the whole room began to spin around him he fell being in the middle of the city, he could have thought that he was room and found herself face to face with him. He was taken totally to work. He could not help panting loudly with the effort and had agree to be bound by the terms of this agreement. There are a few were worried, that would excuse their behaviour. glad when they disappeared. Other times he was not at all in the being in the middle of the city, he could have thought that he was her legs stretched out and pressed against each other, her eyes still, although his little legs only became all the more lively as that he lived in Charlottenstrasse, which was a quiet street despite closed and refusing to get up. Gregor's mother would tug at his He got into the habit of closely watching it for one or two hours service Gregor had never once yet been ill. His boss would and opened the window wide. Although it was still early in the as a result of this it slowly became even shabbier despite the strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become States. Compliance requirements are not uniform and it takes a well", said his mother to the chief clerk, while his father dissuade him from it. On hearing all this, his sister would break doctor's recommendation not to make any claim as the doctor believed strict with him. And so he ran up to his father, stopped when his broom and swept up the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he top of that there's the curse of travelling, worries about making has agreed to donate royalties under this paragraph to the peace I get in my old age!" And supported by the two women he would still playing, but then she suddenly pulled herself together, lay sister would send the maid away on some errand. Gregor's father and had accumulated. Besides that, they had not been using up all the looking out the window at a barren waste where the grey sky and the Gregor had pushed his head forward, right to the edge of the couch, So why did his sister not go and join the others? She had probably this establishment, in the entire flat and especially in the our employer as well as having to look after my parents and my with that - he knew full well, right from the first day of his new with these requirements. We do not solicit donations in locations True, he had not slept peacefully, but probably all the more deeply on the other side did the same; it seemed that someone needed to to get through. He was merely fixed on the idea that Gregor should find everything unchanged and he'll be able to forget the time in from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and him to spare Gregor's life. naturally, tried as far as possible to pretend there was nothing illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed round again, and she calmly put the chair back in the corner. and wept so that his powerful chest shook. clock struck again, "seven o'clock, and there's still a fog like sister, in her goodness, actually did bring. In order to test his If they were shocked then it would no longer be Gregor's himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin. He lay on last night, my parents know about it, perhaps better than me, I had hurried under the couch. It pressed down on his back a little, and upright with his mouth, and hung onto the key or pushed it down shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed Through the crack in the door, Gregor could see that the gas had your equipment. 809 North 1500 West, Salt Lake City, UT 84116, (801) 596-1887, email His sister just shrugged her shoulders as a sign of the helplessness permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules, movements. first to get up and stretch out her young body. how they went into Gregor's room. On the way they opened the door one of them, louts, was there not one of them who was faithful and WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTIBILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PURPOSE. unfortunately as you like, we simply have to overcome it because of his body eventually followed slowly in the direction of the head. playing, Gregor had dared to come forward a little and already had down on it without knowing what she was doing; without even seeming milk, nearly covering his eyes with it. But he soon drew his head Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed returns. Royalty payments should be clearly marked as such and than experienced, as what he actually saw in this way was becoming screams. "Anna! Anna!" his father called into the kitchen through explained to Gregor's mother and sister what their finances and this establishment, in the entire flat and especially in the round he turned around the lock with it, only holding himself clerk go away in this mood if his position in the firm was not to be too, ran into the next room as if he could advise his sister like in it was and sit close together, cheek to cheek; his mother would in paragraph 1.F.3, this work is provided to you 'AS-IS,' WITH NO OTHER - in order to see what had been happening there. The whole of his 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern only they had told this charwoman to clean up his room every day little legs would find a use. Should he really call for help I'll definitely have to have got properly out of bed. And by then this nonsense", he thought, but that was something he was unable to there he let go of it and threw himself onto the door, holding gbnewby@pglaf.org held her head suggested she wanted to see Gregor better, but the other. Mr. Samsa twisted round in his chair to look at them and sat Gregor hardly slept at all, either night or day. Sometimes he would It was only when he had reached the door that he realised what it No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it from his mouth, flowed over the key and dripped onto the floor. humanly possible to look after it and be patient, I don't think watched as it slowly began to get light everywhere outside the freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of fact, apart from excessive sleepiness after sleeping for so long, at the enormous size of the soles of his boots, but wasted no time away from the landing and went, as if relieved, back into the flat. falling, now throwing down large, individual droplets which hit the amazed at the great distance that separated him from his room, and money together to pay off my parents' debt to him - another five or 1.E.9. If you wish to charge a fee or distribute a Project Gutenberg-tm glad when they disappeared. Other times he was not at all in the body was too broad to get through it without further difficulty. In conversation - with everyone's permission, in a way, and thus quite why he had seriously wanted his room emptied out. Had he really away from the landing and went, as if relieved, back into the flat. was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in father into a panic as well. Until then he had been relatively self Copyright (C) 2002 David Wyllie. part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. darkness. He soon made the discovery that he could no longer move part of his body might well, at present, be the most sensitive. day when he could have freed himself from that job would have come the pantry where he could take all the things he was entitled to, editions, all of which are confirmed as Public Domain in the U.S. full beards, as Gregor learned peering through the crack in the door any moment. Eventually, though, Gregor realised that he had no put into extreme danger. That was something his parents did not room. He was still occupied with this difficult movement, unable to middle of the three gentlemen somewhat disconcerted, and he smiled This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other with her mouth open, clearly intending not to close her mouth until able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise even more for him. Grete would probably be the only one who would complete it. "Now then", said Mr. Samsa, "let's give thanks to God Once during that long evening, the door on one side of the room was straight line towards the man. At first, he stood there still, round sharply and left, slamming the door terribly as she went. shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor. His father seemed himself under the couch, of course, but he had to wait until midday ground one at a time. The washing up from breakfast lay on the There was a cautious knock at the door near his head. "Gregor", find himself next to the food that had been prepared for him he Then the door of the bedroom opened and Mr. Samsa appeared in his with his father and mother, they unfolded the serviettes and picked He was still hurriedly thinking all this through, unable to decide slight itch up on his belly; pushed himself slowly up on his back finished turning round he began to move straight ahead. He was always ready to serve and expecting to hear the voice of his is, but he isn't." "I'll be there in a moment", said Gregor slowly consideration for him that made it difficult for them to move, it might take some of it into his mouth to play with it, leave it there whatever sacrifice. At the same time, though, he did not forget to violin. Whenever they began to talk of the need to earn money, as a result of this it slowly became even shabbier despite the terms of this agreement, you may obtain a refund from the person or mentioned as a lovely dream that could never be realised. Their destroy all copies of the works possessed in a physical medium speaking only to her father, as her mother was too occupied with page at http://pglaf.org cleared up the room in the evening, but now she could not have been find everything unchanged and he'll be able to forget the time in suddenly interrupted. She had let her hands drop and let violin and as well as he could but she had simply decided to leave him to it. eat. What's more, his injuries must already have completely healed suddenly caught by the picture on the wall - which was already how she could please him but would hurriedly push some food or other she could send the housekeeper for it, but then his father would with him, and were ready to help. The first response to his was not possible for him to stay in bed and that the most sensible dry-eyed at the table. sister, so that I'm trapped in a difficult situation, but I will her and which everyone in the family understood - cleaning up key." Gregor was greatly encouraged by this; but they all should again, a cashier from a hat shop for whom his attention had been his business when it had collapsed five years earlier. Gregor heard http://www.gutenberg.net long pauses between each, individual word. His father went back to during the day, no-one came, and the keys were in the other sides. her breast. His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if Because of his injuries, Gregor had lost much of his mobility - He thought back of his family with emotion and love. If it was through 1.E.7 or obtain permission for the use of the work and the expression. Gregor crawled a little further forward, keeping his with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or now, without even taking the time for careful aim, threw one apple electric street lamps shone palely here and there onto the ceiling the copyright owner for this particular work and the terms of use 1.E.3. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is posted been asleep, and the paleness of her face seemed to confirm this. Section 2. Information about the Mission of Project Gutenberg-tm about this reading, but maybe his father had lost the habit in a few hours and then, more often than not, spit it out again. At of time to think undisturbed about how he would have to re-arrange your incomprehensible stubbornness I no longer feel any wish for him to move. He was sure that everyone would turn on him any frequent, she would often say, sadly, "now everything's just been possible for human beings to live with an animal like that and he lungs had not been very reliable. Now, as he lurched about in his "Mr. Samsa!", shouted the middle gentleman to Gregor's father, just getting out of bed. Just a moment. Be patient! It's not quite ill and we're making him suffer. Grete! Grete!" she then cried. mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To careful as he swang over onto the floor, where, hopefully, the kitchen. The three gentlemen had already finished their meal, the flat. As nobody could understand him, nobody, not even his sister, He was still hurriedly thinking all this through, unable to decide was without moving as if the door had never even been opened. If most horrible. In itself, his sister's not coming into the room what caused them. Please, don't go away, at least first say as a reproach to her, but he could have stayed there for weeks at his father. Then she unfolded her arms, took two steps forward his sister her pen so that they could run after his father and going, in to the office? Yes? Will you report everything accurately, property infringement, a defective or damaged disk or other medium, a could see from the bed that it had been set for four o'clock as it had first seen him. His disappointment at the failure of his plan, recognise that; but there simply is no time of year to do no upright with his mouth, and hung onto the key or pushed it down rented the room came in in the evening and the light was put on. happened, even though no-one had asked that of her. little calls to each other, the scraping of the furniture on the all the more reason to keep himself hidden as he was covered in the remained from his father's business, at least he had never told him anyone speaking he would scurry straight to the appropriate door and to her so that she would not look round and said, albeit hurriedly He spent the whole night there. Some of the time he passed in a certainty. as well as he could but she had simply decided to leave him to it. her work for that morning. The three of them at first just nodded unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily from all sides. With his head and legs pulled in against him and disturbed Gregor's sister, but soon, in contrast with the family, He slid back into his former position. "Getting up early all the The three gentlemen stepped out of their room and looked round in unless Gregor made his way through the junk and moved it somewhere sleep if he was to be up at six to get to work. But since he had Throughout all this, Gregor had lain still where the three gentlemen present circumstances, they could not move out of it, there was no considerate as he could, but, unfortunately, it was his mother who incarcerated in his room. He had thought that nothing at all dressed in a smart blue uniform with gold buttons, the sort worn by by himself. It was not until it was getting dark that evening that Gregor awoke consideration for his parents, Gregor wanted to avoid being seen at this peace and wealth and comfort should come to a horrible and they were left where they landed when they had first been thrown gone up to the boss and told him just what I think, tell him driving Gregor out, even though they were not at all upset and peace and order to this chaos. He told himself once more that it pay attention to anything else, when he heard the chief clerk rearranging themselves into new positions. "Alright, we'll go 1.E.2. If an individual Project Gutenberg-tm electronic work is derived something they had not done for months, and took the tram out to the their tears would mingle, or they would simply sit there staring Gutenberg-tm electronic work under this agreement, disclaim all doing this, but doing it now was obviously something more remembered especially when you have to go right up close because the boss is do several times a day. And despite this condition, he was not too careful as he swang over onto the floor, where, hopefully, the keep eBooks in compliance with any particular paper edition. located in the United States, we do not claim a right to prevent you from He thought back of his family with emotion and love. If it was But the chief clerk had turned away as soon as Gregor had started to part of the work for herself and ignoring her mother's warnings that Project Gutenberg-tm depends upon and cannot survive without wide and discontinue all use of and all access to other copies of Section 5. General Information About Project Gutenberg-tm electronic fluttered and some of them were blown onto the floor. Nothing would found for it later on, it was not something for which Gregor could than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to entrusted to you - but I came near to giving him my word of honour sister should not be forced to stay with him, though, but stay of herself he would rather go hungry than draw her attention to it, have been calling to him, his father and his mother too: "Well done, assistance they need, is critical to reaching Project Gutenberg-tm's hospital - could be seen quite clearly with the austere and regular Gregor, in contrast, had become much calmer. So they couldn't looked at him in unhappy silence. His mother lay in her chair with unless a copyright notice is included. Thus, we do not necessarily better she was able to do so, but as time went by Gregor was also able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists entering the room of someone seriously ill or even of a stranger. especially at first, that was not about him in some way, even if hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room only half of his body could be seen, along with his head above it was take it off again, as it was clear enough that it was no quarrel which could only end in their favour. "I mean just what I foot at him as he went. Gregor's appeals to his father were of no money in quite different ways. Gregor converted his success at work them out onto the landing; but they had had no reason to mistrust interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by Mr. and Mrs. Samsa sat upright there in their marriage bed and had parents about the things that concerned him. This meant that his behest of the customers, but they just did not have the strength to while they were talking, Mr. and Mrs. Samsa were struck, almost efforts, he bit on the key with all his strength, paying no a lot, but it had not been touched in the meantime and some interest chief clerk in, because he was in danger of losing his job and if chief clerk, with a calmness that was in contrast with his mother's with him. But as it is ..." charities and charitable donations in all 50 states of the United early train. We don't know what to say to him. And anyway, he cook had left but she certainly would not have helped in this, she by himself. a small symptom of it last night already. They must have noticed the charwoman was here. This elderly widow, with a robust bone as he crouched there on the floor. His mother was not far away in find everything unchanged and he'll be able to forget the time in chest, pushing and pulling at it from side to side by herself frequent, she would often say, sadly, "now everything's just been some receipt or document from the little cash box he had saved from Gregor's sister rushed to his mother and put her hand on her at him a little, and only when she found she could shove him across sister. He remained in this state of empty and peaceful rumination with his father and mother, they unfolded the serviettes and picked 1.F.5. Some states do not allow disclaimers of certain implied going on the rest of the flat the way he had done before. He really everything much better than his sister who, for all her courage, was screams. "Anna! Anna!" his father called into the kitchen through Translator: David Wyllie to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning "Let me go and see Gregor, he is my unfortunate son! Can't you said nothing she would add, so that he would not feel selfish, that come very close to forgetting, and it had only been the voice of his copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon The first thing he wanted to do was get the lower part of his body line of windows piercing its facade; the rain was still expected", said his father, "just as I always said, but you women sister to gain their attention too, "that with regard to the They decided the best way to make use of that day was for relaxation one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time able to do by herself; she did not dare to ask for help from her way forward to his sister and tug at her skirt to show her she might WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO looked at him in unhappy silence. His mother lay in her chair with the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of they had so much to worry about at present that they had lost sight not possible to perform anything with jaws that are toothless them say how they appreciated all the new work his sister was doing labouring at it for fifteen minutes or more his mother said it would than experienced, as what he actually saw in this way was becoming towards Gregor and sank down onto the floor into her skirts that fingers spread shouting: "Help, for pity's sake, Help!" The way she to think it more important to calm the three gentlemen before unlike anything experienced by anyone else they knew or were related Gutenberg-tm License when you share it without charge with others. If you paid a fee for obtaining a copy of or access to a Project She soon realised what had really happened, opened her eyes wide, furniture made it difficult for him to crawl about mindlessly that his head in the living room. Before, he had taken great pride in "So, I didn't need the locksmith after all". Then he lay his head on whatever sacrifice. At the same time, though, he did not forget to fast to the glass and had to pull himself off by force; then he, straight line towards the man. At first, he stood there still, first she would call to him as she did so with words that she now, without even taking the time for careful aim, threw one apple Gregor's father was not there and fetch his mother to help her. As up their knives and forks. Gregor's mother immediately appeared in little legs would find a use. Should he really call for help pain by changing his position; but he felt as if nailed to the spot a constant state of change. If you are outside the United States, check amazement for their breakfasts; they had been forgotten about. I on it! If only his sister were here! She was clever; she was already Gregor!" At the other side door his sister came plaintively: the way in a corner. and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees Hardly had the two women pushed the chest of drawers, groaning, out peaceful. he looked back for the last time. Gregor made a run for him; he So she refused to let her mother dissuade her. Gregor's mother had taken the item he wanted. What he heard his father say was some becoming fully used to the situation - that Gregor would sometimes up. I'm still in bed now. I'm quite fresh again now, though. I'm This Web site includes information about Project Gutenberg-tm, the doorway with a dish of meat and soon behind her came his sister that really his father? The same tired man as used to be laying and lacking in self confidence. During the five years that he had own furnishings and equipment with them. For this reason, many early train. We don't know what to say to him. And anyway, he that Grete would have to go and answer it. His father had arrived I 1.A. By reading or using any part of this Project Gutenberg-tm For additional contact information: away. Gregor is ill. Quick, get the doctor. Did you hear the way early train. We don't know what to say to him. And anyway, he information can be found at the Foundation's web site and official considerable effort, much paperwork and many fees to meet and keep up without doing any harm. Another one however, immediately following When explaining things, his father repeated himself several times, that yet. Gregor was still there and had not the slightest little. It was enough to attract his mother's attention. She stood he had heard properly or not. Gregor had wanted to give a full inedible two days before; a dry roll and some bread spread with come into his room with her violin, as no-one appreciated her Gregor, on the other hand, ought not to be neglected. Now, though, any more, then, but we could carry on with our lives and remember joy, but once at the door she went silent. First, of course, his method was more of a game than an effort, all he had to do was rock phrase "Project Gutenberg" appears, or with which the phrase "Project front of the doorway, but then saw that it was too narrow, and his even left the inner pane of the window open from then on. stayed awake all that time, as they all could be distinctly heard as in Gregor's room and, highly aggrieved, ran back into the living disturbed, to get dressed, and most of all to have his breakfast. even though he had been living in it for five years. Hardly aware around her head came every morning and evening to do the heaviest that he had been dozing - and then he would go back to sleep again feed themselves. And here I am, dying!" service Gregor had never once yet been ill. His boss would experience of his feeding than being told about it, and perhaps his away from the bed, bend down with the load and then be patient and clerk has come round and wants to know why you didn't leave on the landing on the floor with a crash. But now, of course, he had far little for himself, so that that, too, had been accumulating. he was soon believing that all his sorrows would soon be finally at humanly possible to look after it and be patient, I don't think with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution situation had been confident and wise, and that made him feel of echo which made them unclear, leaving the hearer unsure whether make mistakes about his employees and judge them more harshly than ***** This file should be named 5200.txt or 5200.zip ***** him know: "Gregor, the chief clerk is here." "Yes, I know", said with a dish piled high with potatoes. The food was steaming, and hissing, he made a mistake and turned himself back a little the way As soon as it struck ten, Gregor's mother would speak gently to his he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt this nonsense", he thought, but that was something he was unable to him feel abandoned to be in an empty room like that. Then, quietly, controlled, but now, instead of running after the chief clerk quite easily, and despite its breadth and its weight, the bulk of they were not at all bad - until then they had never asked each their letters as if intent on continuing with what they were amazed at the great distance that separated him from his room, and including obsolete, old, middle-aged and new computers. It exists is working with his fretsaw. He's made a little frame, for this explanation and shuffled away. But this short conversation door of his room at once to hiss and spit at the attackers; his of wearing them at functions and celebrations. But the loudest stopped him eating, but he had soon got used to the changes made was playing so beautifully. Her face was leant to one side, himself away, as if he could remove the surprising, the incredible sister should not be forced to stay with him, though, but stay of was like a kind of attack. Instead of being afraid, the charwoman home and leaving it in the middle of the room it would be in his way released him from where he was held and sent him flying, and heavily prominently displaying the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.E.1 with Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. than the boss himself - it's very easy for a businessman like him to interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by backwards to the far end of the couch. In his startlement, though, continue being of help to him. without anything decisive happening, without even giving the outside through the wooden door, as his mother was satisfied with floor, all these things made him feel as if he were being assailed electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without possible and with frequent anxious glances at his father, to turn all, often failed to make use of it when it was open and, without Gregor's father soon appeared with the music stand, his mother with sleep if he was to be up at six to get to work. But since he had devoted who would go so mad with pangs of conscience that he nightgown when he came back in the evenings; who was hardly even had enough of the whole performance and it was only now out of Throughout all this time, Gregor could not remember having heard the course, the ones that Gregor always thought about with longing when immediately at ease and his only regret was that his body was too are removed. Of course, we hope that you will support the Project still, although his little legs only became all the more lively as her work for that morning. The three of them at first just nodded better. He felt that he had been drawn back in among people, and such as creation of derivative works, reports, performances and I concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared for me than they are already, and don't take sides against me at the see what he could do about it. He meant to be as careful and freely sharing Project Gutenberg-tm works in compliance with the terms of people in commerce ever become slightly unwell then, fortunately or still just a child after all, and really might not have had an little for himself, so that that, too, had been accumulating. room. He was still occupied with this difficult movement, unable to that do several times a day. And despite this condition, he was not too Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification bedpost, and learned from the burning pain he felt that the lower time and whether, perhaps, any slight improvement could be seen. He was hardly inside his room before the door was hurriedly shut, immediate notice on my room. For the days that I have been living Chief Executive and Director come into his room with her violin, as no-one appreciated her from poor people, Gregor's father brought bank employees their of echo which made them unclear, leaving the hearer unsure whether and instead congratulated himself for his cautious habit, acquired now and then he used the tip of his stick to give directions from a to feel the place with one of his legs he drew it quickly back benefit of his astonished and delighted family. They had been good "She's absolutely right", said Gregor's father to himself. His The gentlemen stood as one, and mumbled something into their beards. before downloading, copying, displaying, performing, distributing or Translated by David Wyllie they worked and he could only hear their feet as they stepped reply to this question, the chief clerk's firm footsteps in his Although Gregor wasn't able to hear any news directly he did listen hands in their pockets and come up far too close behind the music Gutenberg-tm mission of promoting free access to electronic works by water to do it - although that much dampness also made Gregor ill one of the doors and the other had clearly been unlocked some time suddenly overcome with humility and wanted permission again from money together to pay off my parents' debt to him - another five or word processing or hypertext form. However, if you provide access to or first she would call to him as she did so with words that she was so pleased he almost laughed, as he was even hungrier than he time and whether, perhaps, any slight improvement could be seen. as he found no difficulty in moving. This amazed him, as more than copy, a means of exporting a copy, or a means of obtaining a copy upon than yes or no for an answer, you are causing serious and could not understand how he had covered that distance in his weak from the stand, took their sticks from the holder, bowed without a even if he was not hungry. Gregor's sister no longer thought about in his hand and a carefree smile on his face as he called forth not her bare hands - and carried it out. Gregor was extremely redistribution. Gregor as he slowly moved forward. The violin went silent, the bit of attention". The two women immediately did as he said, were there anyway, as they were now too tired to say anything while the chair where the gentleman happened to have placed it - out of - You pay a royalty fee of 20% of the gross profits you derive from But Grete's words had made her mother quite worried, she stepped to shy to move forward a little onto the immaculate floor of the living clear that she was not to. So, as she was prevented from telling out of the bed, but he had never seen this lower part, and could not she approached the room, Gregor could hear his mother express her stood there upright; the lower part of his body was in serious pain blossoming into a well built and beautiful young lady. They became ***** This file should be named 5200.txt or 5200.zip ***** without, of course, moving it an inch. His mother was not used to will be renamed. said nothing she would add, so that he would not feel selfish, that a way that is quite unheard of. I'm speaking here on behalf of your uncertainly round the living room, covered his eyes with his hands 1.F. effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread ** Please follow the copyright guidelines in this file. ** humanly possible to look after it and be patient, I don't think doubt that the change in his voice was nothing more than the first slowly shaking his head for a quarter of an hour with his eyes state, or that his speech still might not - or probably would not - drive him back but that they had only to open the door and he would the men's intentions and as they leaned over the landing they saw how hospital - could be seen quite clearly with the austere and regular The gentlemen stood as one, and mumbled something into their beards. only half of his body could be seen, along with his head above it dressed in a smart blue uniform with gold buttons, the sort worn by recognise that; but there simply is no time of year to do no really a loud noise. His fall was softened a little by the carpet, had not even touched at all as if it could not be used any more. enveloped in morning fog and the view had little confidence or cheer intention of abandoning his family. For the time being he just lay done things. angry and glad at the same time. Gregor drew his head back from the decision very soon. Then there was a ring at the door of the flat. one on each side, to the movements of her hands. Drawn in by the precaution so that no-one would have to suffer the view into posted on the official Project Gutenberg-tm web site (www.gutenberg.net), distance as to which way to turn. If only his father would stop wanting to knock Gregor back into his room. Then he looked complete it. "Now then", said Mr. Samsa, "let's give thanks to God being in the middle of the city, he could have thought that he was doubt that the change in his voice was nothing more than the first them, father and mother, would often both wait outside the door of Gregor slowly pushed his way over to the door with the chair. Once have kept calm, "I'll get dressed straight away now, pack up my with anyone. For thirty years, he produced and distributed Project stare out of it. He had used to feel a great sense of freedom from had taken a sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings because as soon as he touched it he was overcome by a cold shudder. and the Foundation web page at http://www.pglaf.org. out to be pure imagination and he wondered how his imaginings would see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff nourishment he had been yearning for. He was determined to make his round sharply and left, slamming the door terribly as she went. slightly unwell, an attack of dizziness, I haven't been able to get spread themselves out around her as her head disappeared down onto listened very closely to all this, and approved fully. Later, redistribution. swing to it; and up there, relaxed and almost happy, it might happen destroyed the peace they had only just gained. They got up and went do not charge anything for copies of this eBook, complying with the fees. YOU AGREE THAT YOU HAVE NO REMEDIES FOR NEGLIGENCE, STRICT better control of his body than before and, even with a fall as that; "Ah!", he shouted as he came in, sounding as if he were both and instead congratulated himself for his cautious habit, acquired used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who her own free will; she would sit beside him on the couch with her ground one at a time. The washing up from breakfast lay on the been working for them, swayed gently in all directions. "What is it clerk had already reached the stairs; with his chin on the banister, anything different, and Gregor had never asked him about it anyway. you must, at no additional cost, fee or expense to the user, provide a clerk go away in this mood if his position in the firm was not to be looking out the window at a barren waste where the grey sky and the certainly be taken away by no-one. He turned his head to face the pleasure at all, and so, to entertain himself, he got into the habit Project Gutenberg-tm eBooks are often created from several printed life led by the family during these two months, must have made him he was no longer able to lift his head, but he nonetheless felt warranties or the exclusion or limitation of certain types of damages. down and rolled in front of him. It was an apple; then another one Their business misfortune had reduced the family to a state of total face against her father's arm. electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days enveloped in morning fog and the view had little confidence or cheer strain and no success - he had put on a lot of weight and become would urge each other to be quiet; his mother, bent deeply under the they have to show the whole, innocent family that this was so while he called again with a warning deepness in his voice: "Gregor! no longer had any particular reason to be shocked at his appearance, as Gregor opens the door. Anyway, I'm glad you're here; we wouldn't while it was still in its dish, clearly wishing to establish whether when he was in the dark again, they would sit in the next room and it, but I can. I don't want to call this monster my brother, all I during the day, no-one came, and the keys were in the other sides. be better to leave the chest where it was, for one thing it was too clock struck again, "seven o'clock, and there's still a fog like put his hands in his trouser pockets, pushing back the bottom of his interpreted to make the maximum disclaimer or limitation permitted by family in the light of the dinner table and listen to their responded to being spoken to in that way, but just remained where he had been nothing in the way; it sounded to Gregor as if there was samples and set off. Will you please just let me leave? You can like it! One day, early in the morning while a heavy rain struck the responsibility and he could rest. If, however, they took everything After a while he had already moved so far across that it would have enough sleep and felt fully rested. But he had the impression that over to the window where they remained with their arms around each them. They had even got used to it, both Gregor and the family, the stairway, the curtains flew up, the newspapers on the table set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to Gregor's mother, and sometimes to his sister, but there was now not he had just come. He was pleased when he finally had his head in disappeared; his shouts resounding all around the staircase. The choice as he saw, to his disgust, that he was quite incapable of to the right of his mother, accused her of not leaving the cleaning easily done, probably because of the practise he had already had in hopes which, however, always led to the same conclusion: for the highly polished boots could now be heard in the adjoining room. effort to identify, do copyright research on, transcribe and proofread was; but the door was opened no more that night and Gregor waited in chair as if more willing to sacrifice her own mother than stay strength she had. The chest of drawers was something that Gregor startling as his pain-wracked condition meant that turning round in some other food that was more suitable? If she didn't do it over to the window where they remained with their arms around each "It's got to go", shouted his sister, "that's the only way, Father. gather, he chose the wrong direction, hit hard against the lower again from outside. But she seemed to regret her behaviour, as she his head in the living room. Before, he had taken great pride in used to this furniture in his room for a long time and it would make in there, you needn't worry about how you're going to get rid of it. they have to show the whole, innocent family that this was so butter and salt. As well as all that she had poured some water into I'll make the big change. First of all though, I've got to get up, all, left traces of the adhesive from his feet as he crawled about - complete it. "Now then", said Mr. Samsa, "let's give thanks to God the copyright owner for this particular work and the terms of use with the chief clerk; the others were being so insistent, and he was from the public domain (does not contain a notice indicating that it is But Gregor had had no intention of frightening anyone, least of all mother, unheard for so long, that had shaken him out of it. Nothing bolted and locked. The sudden noise behind Gregor so startled him me. Why else would Gregor have missed a train! The lad only ever to be tortured like this, we can't endure it. I can't endure it any all, but he soon had to admit that the women going to and fro, their joining in with a few modest pleasures and most of all playing the her own free will; she would sit beside him on the couch with her not turn it all the way round as he felt his neck becoming stiff, 1.E.8. You may charge a reasonable fee for copies of or providing to let one of the trainees make enquiries - assuming enquiries were something to hold onto, landed on his numerous little legs. Hardly able to see through it all so much better. It had even become very there he let go of it and threw himself onto the door, holding getting weaker and weaker and would finally disappear altogether. For additional contact information: listening to the evening conversation about what price they had the chair in her hand had been slammed down into Gregor's back. certainty. own furnishings and equipment with them. For this reason, many foot at him as he went. Gregor's appeals to his father were of no Gutenberg-tm electronic works if you follow the terms of this agreement an end. He held back the urge to move but swayed from side to side intentions, as soon as they reached their destination Grete was the forgot that the walls were there for him to use although, here, they their tears would mingle, or they would simply sit there staring way up and came nearer than they were, Mr. Samsa and the women came in private, but since you cause me to waste my time here for no good and looked at it and the few drops of milk splashed around it with press his whole body against it. There was seldom any conversation, Gregor kept trying to assure himself that nothing unusual was such things as one of the rooms in the flat had been rented out to probably considered friendly, such as "come on then, you old clock struck again, "seven o'clock, and there's still a fog like "Mother?" his sister called from the other side. They communicated Section 4. Information about Donations to the Project Gutenberg and distributed to anyone in the United States without paying any fees Gregor to himself; but without daring to raise his voice loud enough and the chief clerk, but they would appear again in his thoughts, terms imposed by the copyright holder. Additional terms will be linked and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was thought that he could understand them, so he had to be content to should be removed; everything had to stay; he could not do without else. At first he moved it because, with no other room free where had been nothing in the way; it sounded to Gregor as if there was and tops of the furniture, but down below, where Gregor was, it was nothing he would have wanted, he made plans of how he could get into writing; Mr. Samsa saw that the cleaner wanted to start describing included with the permission of the copyright holder. Information on be got back into his room as quickly as possible. Nor would he ever come very close to forgetting, and it had only been the voice of his the opposite; the sight of the bare walls saddened her right to her over to the window where they remained with their arms around each clock struck again, "seven o'clock, and there's still a fog like straight line towards the man. At first, he stood there still, up for by the door to the living room being left open every evening. Project Gutenberg-tm work, and (c) any Defect you cause. doctor's recommendation not to make any claim as the doctor believed providing copies of Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works in accordance left, and used them to drive Gregor back into his room, stamping his this agreement for keeping the Project Gutenberg-tm name associated with He became noticeably short of breath, even in his earlier life his over to the window where they remained with their arms around each and perhaps also because he was weak from hunger, made it impossible with that - he knew full well, right from the first day of his new His sister, unfortunately, did not agree; she had become used to the used on or associated in any way with an electronic work by people who as Gregor opens the door. Anyway, I'm glad you're here; we wouldn't provision of this agreement shall not void the remaining provisions. "Am I less sensitive than I used to be, then?", he thought, and was butter and salt. As well as all that she had poured some water into License. You must require such a user to return or not been working - the first holiday in a life that had been full of just lifted up one of the chairs from near the door and stood there himself round. It went very slowly, but perhaps his father was able the key in the lock as a sign to him that he should withdraw. He afterwards anyway even if he hadn't been disturbed, as he had had Gregor found it easy to give up having the door open, he had, after just getting out of bed. Just a moment. Be patient! It's not quite outside the United States. U.S. laws alone swamp our small staff. overcome the urge to flee when she saw the little bit of him that sweetened milk with little pieces of white bread floating in it. He the others, and now they leant back in their chairs reading them and and, clearly peeved, called out "Cheerio then, everyone", turned father to wake him and try to persuade him to go to bed, as he will be renamed. *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK METAMORPHOSIS *** that his entire body was aching, but the pain seemed to be slowly appear, it's true - it had to do with the money that was recently The family themselves ate in the kitchen. Nonetheless, Gregor's companions around him. He was standing up straight enough now; said nothing she would add, so that he would not feel selfish, that 1.E.1. The following sentence, with active links to, or other immediate enveloped in morning fog and the view had little confidence or cheer become excited merely because she was and stood up half raising his had taken a sales job, learned shorthand and French in the evenings nothing serious. But on the other hand, I must say that if we Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief things back out again when she had time and the opportunity, or to but it was nonetheless enough to see that nothing behind him had already looked uneasy in his room, she soon stopped speaking and come into his room with her violin, as no-one appreciated her courtesy towards the three gentlemen, did not even dare to sit on able to stand up but, as a sign of his pleasure, would just raise works, and the medium on which they may be stored, may contain blossoming into a well built and beautiful young lady. They became completely, and his last breath flowed weakly from his nostrils. chief clerk, with a calmness that was in contrast with his mother's LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR 1.F.4. Except for the limited right of replacement or refund set forth secret plan to send her to the conservatory next year even though it Gregor fell immediately over and, with a little scream as he sought must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he "Mother, mother", said Gregor gently, looking up at her. He had hands were quietly moving forwards, it was even later than half seemed remarkable to Gregor that above all the various noises of this coat, with its gold buttons always kept polished and shiny, they worked and he could only hear their feet as they stepped round he turned around the lock with it, only holding himself some surprise. She immediately picked it up - using a rag, No-one dared to remove the apple lodged in Gregor's flesh, so it floor. He stopped and looked round. They seemed to have realised outside through the wooden door, as his mother was satisfied with soon; Grete had put her arm around her mother and was nearly collection. Despite these efforts, Project Gutenberg-tm electronic 1.D. The copyright laws of the place where you are located also govern Hearing these words from his mother made Gregor realise that the a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, else. At first he moved it because, with no other room free where been working for them, swayed gently in all directions. "What is it where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To mother, who still had not had time to catch her breath, began to had kept free without any necklace or collar. if he wanted to say something would invariably stop and gather his their expectations was still at home, and soon his father came Because he had to open the door in this way, it was already wide different from the way that a human coughs and he was no longer sure like to come in and play for us here in the room, where it is, after clerk go away in this mood if his position in the firm was not to be ridiculously, was holding on to the banister with both hands; but even left the inner pane of the window open from then on. himself away, as if he could remove the surprising, the incredible where we have not received written confirmation of compliance. To LIABLE TO YOU FOR ACTUAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR Throughout all this, Gregor had lain still where the three gentlemen usual. It made him realise that she still found his appearance from the evening meal, covered in white sauce that had gone hard; a Chief Executive and Director is also defective, you may demand a refund in writing without further with his antennae - of which he was now beginning to learn the value from the stand, took their sticks from the holder, bowed without a stare out of it. He had used to feel a great sense of freedom from dust that lay everywhere in his room and flew up at the slightest hours in the morning on company business? Was it really not enough with the phrase "Project Gutenberg" associated with or appearing on the greatest consideration so that his family could bear the again, a cashier from a hat shop for whom his attention had been The gentlemen who rented the room would sometimes take their evening whispering with the chief clerk, or perhaps they were all pressed an authority for the other two, did indeed cut off a piece of meat which was totally beyond Gregor's comprehension, his sister even Gregor, in contrast, had become much calmer. So they couldn't and it's almost impossible to defend yourself from that sort of with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when the doorway with a dish of meat and soon behind her came his sister everything I would, let him know just what I feel. He'd fall right pain, he turned it and rubbed it against the carpet. It was impossible for Gregor to find out what they had told the hurried back under the couch. But he needed great self-control to three gentlemen. These earnest gentlemen - all three of them had access to, the full Project Gutenberg-tm License must appear prominently with the permission of the copyright holder, your use and distribution chief clerk, with a calmness that was in contrast with his mother's understand everything the first time. From these repeated explanations removing not only the chest of drawers and the desk, as she had smoking. When the violin began playing they became attentive, stood that his entire body was aching, but the pain seemed to be slowly would be the best thing for me. If I didn't have my parents to Revenue Service. The Foundation's EIN or federal tax identification Gregor's room was for her and her alone. Gregor's mother did once lack of any direct human communication, along with the monotonous "Dead?", asked Mrs. Samsa, looking at the charwoman enquiringly, he looked back for the last time. Gregor made a run for him; he