1 But it was something that had to be risked.
2 There was a loud thump, but it wasn't really a loud noise.
3 But it became difficult after that, especially as he was so exceptionally broad.
4 The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment.
5 But then of course, the maid's firm steps went to the door as ever and opened it.
6 His back seemed to be quite hard, and probably nothing would happen to it falling onto the carpet.
7 Gregor only needed to hear the visitor's first words of greeting and he knew who it was - the chief clerk himself.
8 But then he said to himself: "Before it strikes quarter past seven I'll definitely have to have got properly out of bed."
9 If he succeeded in falling out of bed in this way and kept his head raised as he did so he could probably avoid injuring it.
10 It was half past six and the hands were quietly moving forwards, it was even later than half past, more like quarter to seven.
11 After a while he had already moved so far across that it would have been hard for him to keep his balance if he rocked too hard.
12 He told himself once more that it was not possible for him to stay in bed and that the most sensible thing to do would be to get free of it in whatever way he could at whatever sacrifice.
13 He must have tried it a hundred times, shut his eyes so that he wouldn't have to look at the floundering legs, and only stopped when he began to feel a mild, dull pain there that he had never felt before.
14 A collection of textile samples lay spread out on the table - Samsa was a travelling salesman - and above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame.
15 When Gregor was already sticking half way out of the bed - the new method was more of a game than an effort, all he had to do was rock back and forth - it occurred to him how simple everything would be if somebody came to help him.
16 But when he had at last got his head out of the bed and into the fresh air it occurred to him that if he let himself fall it would be a miracle if his head were not injured, so he became afraid to carry on pushing himself forward the same way.
17 As if from deep inside him, there was a painful and uncontrollable squeaking mixed in with it, the words could be made out at first but then there was a sort of echo which made them unclear, leaving the hearer unsure whether he had heard properly or not.
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