1 He moved very gradually, as if there had been some secret prohibition on leaving the room.
2 Gregor had never had any practice in moving backwards and was only able to go very slowly.
3 What's more, his injuries must already have completely healed as he found no difficulty in moving.
4 In his startlement, though, he was not able to prevent the sheet at its front from moving a little.
5 And so he ran up to his father, stopped when his father stopped, scurried forwards again when he moved, even slightly.
6 It was half past six and the hands were quietly moving forwards, it was even later than half past, more like quarter to seven.
7 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.
8 He did not keep still for a moment while Gregor was speaking, but moved steadily towards the door without taking his eyes off him.
9 They asked Gregor's father for explanations, raised their arms like he had, tugged excitedly at their beards and moved back towards their room only very slowly.
10 As nobody could understand him, nobody, not even his sister, thought that he could understand them, so he had to be content to hear his sister's sighs and appeals to the saints as she moved about his room.
11 He would have used his arms and his hands to push himself up; but instead of them he only had all those little legs continuously moving in different directions, and which he was moreover unable to control.
12 On the way they opened the door to the living room where Grete had been sleeping since the three gentlemen had moved in; she was fully dressed as if she had never been asleep, and the paleness of her face seemed to confirm this.
13 At first he moved it because, with no other room free where he could crawl about, he was forced to, but later on he came to enjoy it although moving about in that the way left him sad and tired to death and he would remain immobile for hours afterwards.
14 At first he moved it because, with no other room free where he could crawl about, he was forced to, but later on he came to enjoy it although moving about in that the way left him sad and tired to death and he would remain immobile for hours afterwards.
15 He meant to be as careful and considerate as he could, but, unfortunately, it was his mother who came back first while Grete in the next room had her arms round the chest, pushing and pulling at it from side to side by herself without, of course, moving it an inch.
16 The woman most likely meant to fetch the things back out again when she had time and the opportunity, or to throw everything out in one go, but what actually happened was that they were left where they landed when they had first been thrown unless Gregor made his way through the junk and moved it somewhere else.
17 Gregor kept trying to assure himself that nothing unusual was happening, it was just a few pieces of furniture being moved after all, but he soon had to admit that the women going to and fro, their little calls to each other, the scraping of the furniture on the floor, all these things made him feel as if he were being assailed from all sides.
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