1 knew from his work at the bank.
2 would not be disturbed in his professional work.
3 A man stood below it calling out instructions to direct the work being done.
4 I also work in an office and I'm quite used to office air, but here it seems to be too strong, you've said so yourselves.
The Trial By Franz KafkaContextHighlight In Chapter Three In the empty Courtroom - The Student - The ... 5 It's Sunday today, and it's not part of my job to do any work today, but they send me off with some message which isn't even necessary just to get me away from here.
The Trial By Franz KafkaContextHighlight In Chapter Three In the empty Courtroom - The Student - The ... 6 He felt well and confident, he had failed to go into work at the bank this morning but that could easily be excused because of the relatively high position he held there.
The Trial By Franz KafkaContextHighlight In Chapter One Arrest - Conversation with Mrs. Grubach - ... 7 s mind all through the following day; he was unable to concentrate on his work and had to stay in his office a little longer than the previous day so that he could finish it.
8 He tried to work out who the man actually was, first in silence, just through observation and by thinking about it, but the man didn't stay still to be looked at for very long.
The Trial By Franz KafkaContextHighlight In Chapter One Arrest - Conversation with Mrs. Grubach - ... 9 Mind you, what we can do is make sure that the high officials we work for find out just what sort of person it is they're going to arrest, and why he should be arrested, before they issue the warrant.
The Trial By Franz KafkaContextHighlight In Chapter One Arrest - Conversation with Mrs. Grubach - ... 10 forced himself to answer, but his thoughts were mainly about that Sunday, how it would be best to get there for nine o'clock in the morning as that was the time that courts always start work on weekdays.
11 said nothing, he knew what was coming, but, suddenly relieved from the effort of the work he had been doing, he gave way to a pleasant lassitude and looked out the window at the other side of the street.
12 Those gentlemen would only save some work for themselves, or at least some unpleasantness for me, which, however, I am glad to endure if I know that each piece of unpleasantness for me is a blow against them.
The Trial By Franz KafkaContextHighlight In Chapter Three In the empty Courtroom - The Student - The ... 13 In fact he had done more than that and brought three junior employees from the bank where I work into the lady's room; they had made themselves busy interfering with some photographs that belonged to the lady and causing a mess.
14 It was somewhat disturbing that just then the door at the end of the hall opened, the young washerwoman, who seemed to have finished her work, came in and, despite all her caution, attracted the attention of some of the people there.
15 We, that's to say all of us who work in the offices here, we decided that the information-giver would have to be elegantly dressed as he continually has to deal with the litigants and he's the first one they meet, so he needs to give a dignified first impression.
The Trial By Franz KafkaContextHighlight In Chapter Three In the empty Courtroom - The Student - The ... 16 Each time he had any small break from the day's work he considered, without knowing exactly what he had in mind, that Mrs. Grubach's flat seemed to have been put into great disarray by the events of that morning, and that it was up to him to put it back into order.
The Trial By Franz KafkaContextHighlight In Chapter One Arrest - Conversation with Mrs. Grubach - ... 17 usually spent his evenings after work - he usually stayed in the office until nine o'clock - with a short walk, either by himself or in the company of some of the bank officials, and then he would go into a pub where he would sit at the regulars' table with mostly older men until eleven.
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