text:  Savile tried to comfort him by the assurance that as he had an hour to spare he would sit down and help him to finish a bottle or two of claret with a great deal of pleasure; and was inclined to attribute the failure of the evening in a great measure to his name not having been included in the list of invitations--an omission by which he declared all parties had been the losers; Horace's reading friends standing very much in need of some one to put a little life into them and himself as a candidate for a degree having missed a fair opportunity of meeting among so many choice fellows some one to "put him up to the examiners' dodges