ten minutes past nine
`` Brayvo , Giglamps ! '' cried little Mr. Bouncer , as he patted him on the shoulder ; `` come along ! You 're the right sort of fellow for a Town and Gown , after all ! '' IT was ten minutes past nine , and Tom , * with a sonorous voice , was ordering all College gates to be shut , when the wine party , which had just left Mr. Bouncer 's room , passed round the corner of St. Mary 's , and dashed across the High . The Town and Gown had already begun . -- * The great bell of Christ Church . It tolls 101 times each evening at ten minutes past nine o'clock -LRB- there being 101 students on the foundation -RRB- and marks the time for the closing of the college gates .