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At Treppel's three roubles are taken for a visit, and for the whole night, ten. Three of the two-rouble establishments Sophie Vassilievna's, The Old Kiev, and Anna Markovna's are somewhat worse, somewhat poorer. The remaining houses on Great Yamskaya are rouble ones; they are furnished still worse.
Yarchenko was the last to go. He averred a headache and fatigue. But scarcely had he gone out of the house when the reporter seized Lichonin by the hand and quickly dragged him into the glass vestibule of the entrance. "Look!" he said, pointing to the street. And through the orange glass of the little coloured window Lichonin saw the sub-professor, who was ringing at Treppel's.
Man, as a matter of fact, is a poly and exceedingly so a polygamous animal. And to his rooster-like amatory instincts it will always be sweet to unfold in such a magnificent nursery garden, A LA Treppel's or Anna Markovna's. Oh, of course, a well-balanced spouse or the happy father of six grown-up daughters will always be clamouring about the horror of prostitution.
"But this is an abomination ... At Treppel's the women are better-looking, at least." Ramses, walking behind, burst into dry laughter. "So, so, Gavrila Petrovich. Let us continue in the same spirit.
But it was just here that strong impressions awaited them. Simeon did not want to let them in, and only several gold pieces, which Ryazanov gave him, softened him. They took up a cabinet, almost the same as at Treppel's, only somewhat shabbier and more faded. At the command of Emma Edwardovna, the girls were herded into the cabinet.
But if you command, then I'm ready to go where you will. Not only on this dubious undertaking, but even very death itself." By this time they had already driven up to the most luxurious establishment in the Yamkas Treppel's. Ryazanov the lawyer said, smiling with his usual ironic smile: "And so, the inspection of the menagerie begins."
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 ... right down to the soldiers' filthy den. No!
They wanted to utilize to the widest possible extent their rather hard-earned money, and on that account decided to make a review of absolutely all the houses of Yama; only Treppel's they could not resolve to enter, as that was too swell for them.
"If we finally have gone, we might at least have chosen a decent place, and not some wretched hole. Really, gentlemen, let's better go to Treppel's alongside; there it's clean and light, at any rate." "If you please, if you please, signior," insisted Lichonin, opening the door before the sub-professor with courtly urbanity, bowing and spreading his arms before him. "If you please."
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