eight
o’clock in the evening
`` So this is how a newspaper is written ? '' said Lucien . `` It is always like this , '' answered Lousteau . `` These ten months that I have been a journalist , they have always run short of copy at eight o'clock in the evening . '' Manuscript sent to the printer is spoken of as `` copy , '' doubtless because the writers are supposed to send in a fair copy of their work ; or possibly the word is ironically derived from the Latin word _ copia _ , for copy is invariably scarce . `` We always mean to have a few numbers ready in advance , a grand idea that will never be realized , '' continued Lousteau . `` It is ten o'clock , you see , and not a line has been written .