of news of any sort...

I haven't seen her for some days, but...

but I must say..." lisped Stepan Trofimovitch, evidently hardly able to think clearly, "but I must say, Liputin, that if it was said to you in confidence, and here you're telling it before every one..." "Absolutely in confidence! But God strike me dead if I...

But as for telling it here...

what does it matter?
Are we strangers, even Alexey Nilitch ?" "I don't share that attitude.