about
two in the morning
His life was in accordance with his ideas . Capraja made his appearance at about ten every morning under the _ Procuratie _ , without anyone knowing whence he came . He lounged about Venice , smoking cigars . He regularly went to the Fenice , sitting in the pit-stalls , and between the acts went round to Florian 's , where he took three or four cups of coffee a day ; and he ended the evening at the cafe , never leaving it till about two in the morning . Twelve hundred francs a year paid all his expenses ; he ate but one meal a day at an eating-house in the Merceria , where the cook had his dinner ready for him at a fixed hour , on a little table at the back of the shop ; the pastry-cook 's daughter herself prepared his stuffed oysters , provided him with cigars , and took care of his money . By his advice , this girl , though she was very handsome , would never countenance a lover , lived very steadily , and still wore the old Venetian costume . This purely-bred Venetian girl was twelve years old when Capraja first took an interest in her , and six-and-twenty when he died .