title: The Portrait of a Lady (Tantor Unabridged Classics)
author: Henry James
description: "Wanda McCaddon's distinguished British accent provides a smooth narration of one of Henry James's most-loved novels." ---AudioFile
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  # The Two Faces
  
  
  ### Henry James
  
  
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  The servant, who, in spite of his sealed, stamped look, appeared to
  
  
  have his reasons, stood there for instruction, in a manner not quite
  
  
  usual, after announcing the name. Mrs Grantham, however, took it up —
  
  
  "Lord Gwyther?" — with a quick surprise that for an instant justified
  
  
  him even to the small scintilla in the glance she gave her companion,
  
  
  which might have had exactly the sense of the butler's hesitation.
  
  
  This companion, a shortish, fairish, youngish man, clean-shaven and
  
  
  keen-eyed, had, with a promptitude that would have struck an observer
  
  
  — which the butler indeed was — sprung to his feet and moved to the
  
  
  chimney-piece, though his hostess herself, meanwhile, managed not
  
  
  otherwise to stir. "Well?" she said, as for the visitor to advance;
  
  
  which she immediately follo