[42]. After “beat her head” is struck out: “there was a commotion.”
[43]. After “stood” is struck out: “in the lobby.”
[44]. There is struck out “I heard nothing of the result of the medical evidence.”
[45]. The words “after she had been long buried” are struck out.
[46]. After the word “imagine” is struck out: “I will not decide one way or another whether into my resolution there entered even unconsciously (of course, unconsciously) anger for the wild cowardice which had possessed me after the affair with Matryosha. Really, I do not think so.”
[47]. After “distract” is struck out: “and because it had become intolerable.”
[48]. After “creature” is struck out: “of ten years.”
[49]. After “even now” is struck out: “The recollection of the deed itself is perhaps not even now loathsome to me. Perhaps the memory of it even now contains something which is gratifying to my passions.”
[50]. After “hallucination” is struck out: “I have other old memories, perhaps, worse than this. There was a woman whom I treated worse, and she died of it. I killed two men in a duel who had done me no harm. I was once mortally insulted, and did not avenge myself. I have it to my account that I poisoned some one, deliberately and successfully, without being found out. If necessary, I will confess it all.”
[51]. After “shall” is struck out: “of this I am perfectly sure.”