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In the course of a few days , we were fully informed as to the mode of life of Z. Marcas . He did copying , at so much a sheet no doubt , for a law-writer who lived in the courtyard of the Sainte-Chapelle . He worked half the night ; after sleeping from six till ten , he began again and wrote till three . Then he went out to take the copy home before dinner , which he ate at Mizerai 's in the Rue Michel-le-Comte , at a cost of nine sous , and came in to bed at six o'clock . It became known to us that Marcas did not utter fifteen sentences in a month ; he never talked to anybody , nor said a word to himself in his dreadful garret . `` The Ruins of Palmyra are terribly silent ! '' said Juste .