It and the carving-knife are the only two knives we have in that particular white-handled pattern." "Was this knife sharp ?" "Very sharp, with a rather thin blade.

I keep all my cutlery in good order, sir." "You seem to have heard a lot that passed last night in spite of your deafness," said Superintendent Galloway, in the blustering manner he had found very useful in browbeating rural witnesses in the police courts.
"Is it customary for waiters to listen to everything that is said when they are waiting at table ?" "I did not hear everything, sir," rejoined the waiter, and his soft whisper was in striking contrast to the superintendent's hectoring tones.

"I explained to the other gentleman that I heard very little the young gentleman said, because I wasn't watching his lips.

It was principally Mr.Glenthorpe's part of the conversation I have related.

I followed almost everything he said because I was watching his lips closely the whole of the time." "Why ?" snapped Superintendent Galloway.
"It was Mr.Glenthorpe's strict instructions that I was to watch his lips closely every time I waited on him, because of my infirmity.