I say 'for your own good,' because my main thought is to
kill the competition of Treppel. I want that my client should be a
man of substance, and not some charlatan and ragamuffin, some kind
of student, now, or ham actor. I want that my ladies should be the
most beautiful, best brought-up, the healthiest and gayest in the
whole city. I won't spare any money in order to set up swell
furnishings; and you will have rooms with silk furniture and with
genuine, beautiful rugs. Your guests will no longer be demanding
beer, but only genteel Bordeaux and Burgundy wines and champagne.
Remember, that a rich, substantial, elderly man never likes your
common, ordinary, coarse love. He requires Cayenne pepper; he
requires not a trade, but an art, and you will soon acquire this.
At Treppel's they take three roubles for a visit and ten roubles
for a night ... I will establish it so, that you will receive five
roubles for a visit and twenty-five for a night. They will present
you with gold and diamonds. I will contrive it so, that you won't
have to pass on into establishments of a lower sort, und so weiter
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