midnight
The moment he thus took the attitude of a reviewer , he found the paragraphs begin , like potatoes , to sprout , and generate other paragraphs . Between agreeing and disagreeing he had soon far more than enough to say , and sought his table , as a workman his bench . To many people who think , writing is the greatest of bores ; but Walter enjoyed it , even to the mechanical part of the operation . Heedless of the length of his article , he wrote until long after midnight , and next morning handed the result to his friend . He burst out laughing . `` Here 's a paper for a quarterly ! '' he cried .