Up and Down Stairs

country houses require assistance to make them work, just as they did five hundred years ago

长弧回扣开题，plot 84。

“It’s little community, we were brought up together.” … “We were really a family and we looked up to the duke and duchess.”

现役口述立人，cast 85。

“I soon found that I spent a good part of my time dressing, and undressing, and changing my uniforms,”

换装日常节拍，pace 83。

A SERVANT, ACCORDING to Dr Johnson in his famous Dictionary of 1755, was ‘one who attends another, and acts at his command – the correlative of master’.

词典钩沉清晰，prose 86。

the junior servants often dubbed ‘the Pug’s Parlour’, whilst in larger country houses this was the function of the house steward’s room.

楼下绰号空间学，world 91。

Yet by the 1960s and 1970s, the word had virtually disappeared from everyday use.

词消失即题眼，hook 84。

the servant should be regarded as an indivisible part of the story. Like great machines, these houses combined public and private functions

仆人升格建筑机器，innov 85。

there must also, crucially, be some degree of human companionship, involving loyalty and trust.

人际常量收束，ending 87。