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Actually, it is not clearly implied that it's "I" and "me" in the text. It could "them" easily. Or, say, he ordered to his servant.

1. Funin ordered [them (impersonal)] to rent a flat for his new kept woman (=lover) and asked [them] to sell the old one off to someone.
Maybe "to sell off" is not a good and not a quite precise...