text:  So the next time he asked a few of the reading men some of whom he knew used to be good fellows together; and as he really had a kindred taste with them on many subjects he found an hour or so pass away very pleasantly: when just as he was passing the wine about the third round and his own brilliancy and good-humour were beginning to infect some of his guests--so that one grave genius of twenty had actually so far forgotten himself as to fill a bumper by mistake--up jumped the senior man of the party and declaring that he had an engagement to walk with a friend at seven politely took his leave