It took a year and half to sell the lot, with some slabs sold back to the ducal estate whence they came.

出售这些石材用了一年半时间，其中有几块从哪哪去，被卖给了那个公。

This is the extreme end of Ms Lethbridge's survey—a vivid sweep from ducal palace to suburban villa, from lordly butler to Barnardo's orphan, from decaying gentry and aspiring middles to the foreign nannies and cleaners of today.

莱斯里奇向我们展现了截然不同的生活场景—从公里忙碌的大扫除到僻静的郊区住宅，从贵族男管家到巴拿度的孤，从衰落的贵族、兴起的中产阶级到外国保姆，如今的清洁工。