noon
Were I to describe the manner in which each day 's leisure was spent , I should bore my readers even more than -- they will perhaps be surprised by the confession -- I was bored myself . My sleep was of necessity more or less broken . I wished to have eight hours of rest , since , though seven of continuous sleep might well have sufficed me , even if my brain had been less quiet and unexcited during the rest of the twenty-four , it was impossible for me to enjoy that term of unbroken slumber . I therefore decided to divide my sleep into two portions of rather more than four hours each , to be taken as a rule after noon and after midnight ; or rather , since noon and midnight had no meaning for me , from 12h . to 16h . and from 24h . to 4.h .