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`` Then , Sam , '' returned Temple , `` I should say that the habit of being too particular is a good one , if it leads to such a good thing as marriage . But to return to the point , what time of day or night do you think it is _ now _ ? '' `` Have not the least idea , '' said Sam ; `` I think it 's some time or other in the evening , but this perpetual daylight confuses me . You know that when you and Grant were away last week after the gulls , I went to bed on Thursday forenoon at ten o'clock by mistake , thinking it was ten at night . How I ever came to do it I ca n't tell , but I suppose that I had sat so long stuffing that great eagle for Grant that my brains had got obfuscated . It was cloudy , too -LRB- not unlike what it is just now -RRB- , so that I could not see the sun . Whatever was the cause , there is no doubt of the fact that I lost a day somehow , and my ideas have got such a twist that I fear they will never recover it . ''