[62]. After “lady” is struck out: “very timidly.”
[63]. All this passage, from “Well” to “easier for me,” is struck out.
[64]. After the words “Tikhon murmured, etc.,” there is struck out: “For what? What have you done to me? Ah, yes, it is the monastic formula!”—“For voluntary and involuntary sin. Every man who commits a sin has already sinned against all, and every man is in some way guilty for another’s sin. There is no solitary sin. As for me I am a great sinner, and perhaps worse than you.”
[65]. After “I could not” is struck out: “You understand very finely, but....”
[66]. After “Why do you” is struck out: “do this.”
[67]. After “endure” is struck out: “with humility.”
[68]. After the word “document” is struck out: “in spite of all the tragedy.”
[69]. After “the laughter will be universal” is struck out: “and add to it the remark of the philosopher that in other people’s misfortune there is always something gratifying to us.”—“That is true.”—“Yet ... you ... yourself.”
[70]. After “form” is struck out: “in the style.”
[71]. After “dirty little girl” is struck out: “and all that I said about my temperament and, well, all the rest ... I see.”