text:  The rest of the men filed out of the door as slowly as they conveniently could in the hope I suppose of hearing the dean's fire open upon me but he waited patiently till my particular friend Bob Thornhill had picked up carefully one by one his miscellaneous collection of note-book pencil penknife and other small wares and had been obliged at length to make an unwilling exit; when seeing the door finally closed he commenced with his usual--"Have the goodness to sit down sir