after he had finished eating and lay lethargic in the same place, his
sister slowly turned the key in the lock as a sign to him that he should
withdraw. He was immediately startled, although he had been half asleep,
and he hurried back under the couch. But he needed great self-control to
stay there even for the short time that his sister was in the room, as
eating so much food had rounded out his body a little and he could
hardly breathe in that narrow space. Half suffocating, he watched with
bulging eyes as his sister unselfconsciously took a broom and swept up
the left-overs, mixing them in with the food he had not even touched at
all as if it could not be used any more. She quickly dropped it all into
a bin, closed it with its wooden lid, and carried everything out. She
had hardly turned her back before Gregor came out again from under the
couch and stretched himself.
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