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THE WOMAN WHO DIED YOUNG There can never be a peak without a decline . Persis was all about elegant decadence in the '80s . But once the factory chimneys spewed more venom than smoke , she faded away as well as her slow dancing , the twist like the magician's flirtation with the evening clientelle . The lanes and by-lanes on her body given a new sheen can never get back that splendid '80s look ------- when money was about class and seldom revealed itself despite the lavishness . Persis is getting back on her feet but looks a much older woman , almost a hag .

THE MYSERIOUS MAN WITH¦¦¦¦¦¦.. Lothar is a German by birth and descent. But by education he is quite as much an Englishman as a 'Deutscher', and by affection much more the former. His life has been spent pretty equally between the two countries, and he flatters himself he speaks both languages without any foreign accent. He is connected with a large and important firm of engineers. He had been bred up to the profession, and was credited with a certain amount of 'talent; and he was considered - and, with all modesty, he deserved the opinion - steady and reliable, so that he had already attained a fair position in the house, and was looked upon as a "rising man'. But he was still young, and he came very near once to making a great mess of a certain affair.