sheet after sheet of silver paper

“The delicious scent of rose-leaves that issued from the wardrobe made the process of taking out sheet after sheet of silver paper quite pleasant to assist at, though the sight of the bonnet at last was anticlimax to Maggie, who would have preferred something more strikingly preternatural.”

—George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860.

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