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Can someone help me to break down this quote and see what it means? This is from the Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

“Your thin white face, chérie; he said, as if he saw it for the first time. Your thin white face, with
its promise of debauchery only a connoisseur could detect” (19).

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i think whats the text is trying to tell us how she looks innocent but her face shows that of sinful desires which the man could see through

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