but here I've heard that manifestoes of some sort have been found in X district." "But there was a rumour of that in the summer--manifestoes, false bank-notes, and all the rest of it, but they haven't found one of them so far.

Who told you ?" "I heard it from Von Blum." "Ah, don't talk to me of your Blum.

Don't ever dare mention him again!" Yulia Mihailovna flew into a rage, and for a moment could not speak.

Von Blum was a clerk in the governor's office whom she particularly hated.
Of that later.
"Please don't worry yourself about Verhovensky," she said in conclusion.
"If he had taken part in any mischief he wouldn't talk as he does to you, and every one else here.

Talkers are not dangerous, and I will even go so far as to say that if anything were to happen I should be the first to hear of it through him.