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put in Hatty . `` I 'll tell you what it means , '' said Charlotte . `` Emily , you be quiet . It means that his income is twenty pence a year , and he spends two thousand pounds ; that he is always dressed to perfection , that he is ready to make love to anybody at two minutes ' notice -- that is , if her fortune is worth it ; that he is never at home in an evening , nor out of bed before noon ; that he spends four hours a day in dressing , and would rather ten times lose his wife -LRB- when he has one -RRB- than break his clouded cane , or damage his gold snuff-box . Is n't that it , Cicely ? '' `` You are so absurd ! '' said Amelia , languidly .