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A Figure Like That<br />

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Dr Matilda Green stood at the kitchen’s<br />

door and watched the birds flittering across her<br />

mansion’s garden while she drank her cup of<br />

tea with purpose. This mansion sat at the top a<br />

hill in the Surrey countryside, close to the Mole<br />

Valley River. It had been in her family for<br />

generations and she had always had had a<br />

comfortable life with enough money to do<br />

whatever she ever wanted. As she had been a<br />

single child, she never had any sibling<br />

competition and she had to except that she had<br />

been horribly spoilt by her doting parents. At<br />

school she had been extremely bright and was<br />

successful at whatever she wanted to do,<br />

whether that would be mathematics, literature,<br />

foreign languages – she could speak at least<br />

twelve languages by the time she was twenty -<br />

one – or sciences, but what she was particularly<br />

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