Zufrieden damit, nur seine ruhigen Worte in der fremden Versammlung zu hören, wagte es K. sogar, kurzerhand das Heft dem Untersuchungsrichter wegzunehmen und es mit den Fingerspitzen, als scheue er sich davor, an einem mittleren Blatte hochzuheben, so daß beiderseits die engbeschriebenen, fleckigen, gelbrandigen Blätter hinunterhingen.
K. was satisfied to hear nothing but his own quiet words in this room full of strangers, and he even dared casually to pick up the examining judge's notebook and, touching it only with the tips of his fingers as if it were something revolting, lifted it in the air, holding it just by one of the middle pages so that the others on each side of it, closely written, blotted and yellowing, flapped down.