Then we can take the blade out entirely.

By this means we can clean it of its rust, and then put it in again with a new rivet.

If you will give me your knife to-morrow, I will try to put it in order for you again, in one or the other of these ways.
"And now," continued Forester, after a short pause, "it is time for me to go down, unless you have something which you wish to say." Although it was not unusual for Forester to close his evening conversation in this manner, Marco's attention was particularly arrested by the excellent opportunity which this remark afforded him to make his confession.

He really wished to make it,--but he did not know how to begin.

He wished that his cousin would ask him something about it, or introduce the subject in some way or other, but Forester was silent.