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Match the themes from Mark Twain's "The £1,000,000 Bank-Note" with the excerpts they represent.
impending doom
wealth worship
rags to riches
The fact had gone all abroad that the foreign crank
who carried million-pound bills in his vest pocket
was the patron saint of [Harris' eating-house]. That
was enough. From being a poor, struggling, little
hand-to-mouth enterprise, it had become
celebrated, and overcrowded with customers.
Why, it isn't six months since you were clerking
away for Blake Hopkins in Frisco on a salary, and
sitting up nights on an extra allowance, helping me
arrange and verify the Gould and Curry Extension
papers and statistics. The idea of your being in
London, and a vast millionaire, and a colossal
celebrity!
When the crash should come, he might somehow
be able to save me from total destruction; I didn't
know how, but he might think of a way, maybe.
Please get those things off, sir, and throw them in
the fire. Do me the favor to put on this shirt and this
suit; it's just the thing, the very thing-plain, rich,
modest, and just ducally nobby;
Deep in debt, not a cent in the world, a lovely girl's
happiness or woe in my hands, and nothing in front
of me but a salary which might never-oh, would
never-materialize!