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Mrs Proudie sent to Miss Trefoil all manner of offers of assistance . The Miss Proudies sent also , and there was immense sympathy between the palace and the deanery . The answer to all inquiries was unvaried . The dean was just the same ; and Sir Omicron Pie was expected there by the 9.15 pm train . And then Mr Slope began to meditate , as others also had done , as to who might possibly be the new dean ; and it occurred to him , as it had also occurred to others , that it might be possible that he should be the new dean himself . And then the question as to the twelve hundred , or fifteen hundred , or two thousand , ran in his mind , as it had run through those of the other clergymen in the cathedral library . Whether it might be two thousand , of fifteen , or twelve hundred , it would in any case undoubtedly be a great thing for him , if he could get it .