text:  The "business of the stays " however bid fair to supersede the business of the frogs in the dean's record of my supposed crimes; and as I fully intended to clear myself even to his satisfaction of any suspicion which might attach to me from the possession of such questionable articles so soon as our theatre closed for the season I resolved that my successful defence from this last imputation would be an admirable ground on which to assume the dignity of a martyr to appeal against all uncharitable conclusions from insufficient premises and come out as the personification of injured innocence throughout my whole college career