The desks are not square.

Oh, no, not the drawers.

Hey, where do they lead to?

But since that happened, they own those desks.

Drawers, socks, slippers would be a comfort, said the Unseen, curtly.

That iron door?

The place was deserted that night stairs corridors stairs.

Each one of these little drawers is stuffed with little cards.

He turned out his drawers for the articles, and then went downstairs to ransack his

He looked over at the alarm clock ticking away by the chest of drawers.

Then, Louise, you can start in by cleaning out the drawers and dusting everything.

I've kept that contract on ice a long time for you, Mike.

At first he slid down a few times on the smooth chest of drawers.

You couldn't have endured this trompe I'oeil style among these mirrors and columns these doors ever ajar, stairways too immense this ever open room.

The furniture was scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before her flight.

Gregor's creeping around as easy as possible and thus of removing the furniture which got in the way, especially the chest of drawers and the writing desk.

Now, Gregor could still do without the chest of drawers if need be, but the writing desk really had to stay.

The furniture was scattered about in every direction, with dismantled shelves and open drawers, as if the lady had hurriedly ransacked them before her flight.

They were cleaning out his room, taking away from him everything he cherished they had already dragged out the chest of drawers in which the fret saw and other tools were kept, and they were now

Now Gregor listened as these two weak women shifted the still heavy old chest of drawers from its position, and as his sister constantly took on herself the greater part of the work, without listening to the warnings of his mother, who was afraid that she would strain herself.

After about a quarter of an hour had already gone by, his mother said it would be better if they left the chest of drawers where it was, because, in the first place, it was too heavy they would not be finished before his father's arrival, and leaving the chest of drawers in the middle of the room would block all Gregor's pathways, but, in the second place, they could not be certain that Gregor would be pleased with the removal of the furniture.

And scarcely had the women left the room with the chest of drawers, groaning as they pushed it, when Gregor stuck his head out from under the sofa to take a look how he could intervene cautiously and with as much consideration as possible.

But unfortunately it was his mother who came back into the room first, while Grete had her arms wrapped around the chest of drawers in the next room and was rocking it back and forth by herself, without moving it from its position.

While Gregor was quickly blurting all this out, hardly aware of what he was saying, he had moved close to the chest of drawers without effort, probably as a result of the practice he had already had in bed, and now he was trying to raise himself up on it.

And so she did not let herself be dissuaded from her decision by her mother, who in this room seemed uncertain of herself in her sheer agitation and soon kept quiet, helping his sister with all her energy to get the chest of drawers out of the room.