1 He was silent and looked straight ahead as if waiting for something.
2 And he looked over at the alarm clock, ticking on the chest of drawers.
3 His father looked hostile, and clenched his fists as if wanting to knock Gregor back into his room.
4 His many legs, pitifully thin compared with the size of the rest of him, waved about helplessly as he looked.
5 Gregor's mother, her hair still dishevelled from bed despite the chief clerk's being there, looked at his father.
6 Then he looked uncertainly round the living room, covered his eyes with his hands and wept so that his powerful chest shook.
7 However, his sister noticed the full dish immediately and looked at it and the few drops of milk splashed around it with some surprise.
8 The violin went silent, the middle of the three gentlemen first smiled at his two friends, shaking his head, and then looked back at Gregor.
9 First, of course, his sister came in and looked round to see that everything in the room was alright; and only then did she let her mother enter.
10 Gregor even thought he glimpsed a look of gratitude one time when he carefully looked out from under the sheet to see how his sister liked the new arrangement.
11 Gregor's mother already looked uneasy in his room, she soon stopped speaking and helped Gregor's sister to get the chest of drawers out with what strength she had.
12 Gregor had hurriedly pulled the sheet down lower over the couch and put more folds into it so that everything really looked as if it had just been thrown down by chance.
13 Gregor, though, had no time to spare for his parents now; the chief clerk had already reached the stairs; with his chin on the banister, he looked back for the last time.
14 Gregor soon had the opportunity to test the strength of his decisions, as early the next morning, almost before the night had ended, his sister, nearly fully dressed, opened the door from the front room and looked anxiously in.
15 Gregor's father staggered back to his seat, feeling his way with his hands, and fell into it; it looked as if he was stretching himself out for his usual evening nap but from the uncontrolled way his head kept nodding it could be seen that he was not sleeping at all.
16 But now the two of them, father and mother, would often both wait outside the door of Gregor's room while his sister tidied up in there, and as soon as she went out again she would have to tell them exactly how everything looked, what Gregor had eaten, how he had behaved this time and whether, perhaps, any slight improvement could be seen.
17 He was standing up straight enough now; dressed in a smart blue uniform with gold buttons, the sort worn by the employees at the banking institute; above the high, stiff collar of the coat his strong double-chin emerged; under the bushy eyebrows, his piercing, dark eyes looked out fresh and alert; his normally unkempt white hair was combed down painfully close to his scalp.
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