The smaller children, smelling the ghee cooking on the griddle, crowded around, watching the brown sugar melt, and finally even the older girls came in, though they stood haughtily to one side.

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When Queen Victoria rounds on her groom, John Brown, for over-familiarity, the courtiers melt out of the shot, leaving him isolated and vulnerable.

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