[16]. After “perhaps” there is struck out: “That’s not bad. Why do you have doubts, then?”—“I believe imperfectly.”
[17]. After “his head still lower” there is struck out: “the corners of his lips suddenly began twitching, quickly and nervously.”
[18]. After “unbelief” is struck out: “Oh, parson!”
[19]. After “I do” is struck out: “They are fascinating words.”—“‘Fascinating,’ these are strange words for a bishop; you are altogether a queer fellow.”
[20]. After “Stavrogin cut him short” is struck out: “this is for those in the middle, this is for the indifferent ones, isn’t it?”
[21]. Instead of “perfectly, etc.,” the original had “I don’t need you in the least.”
[22]. After “tell everything” there is struck out: “for which you came here.”
[23]. After “guessed” there is struck out: “from your face.”
[24]. After “chronicle” there is struck out: “it must be supposed that it is now known to many.”
[25]. After the words “above all not a man of letters” there is written in Dostoevsky’s hand on the proofs “one remark, only one.” In the text of the opening of Chapter I., published as a Supplement to Vol. VIII. of the Jubilee Edition of 1906 of Dostoevsky’s Works, there is the following passage, which is not in the proofs: