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30.04.2021 •
English
Match the themes from Mark Twain's "The £1,000,000 Bank-Note" with the excerpts they represent.
rags to riches
wealth worship
impending doom
The fact had gone all abroad that the foreign crank
who carried million-pound bills in his vest pocket
Why, it isn't six months since you were clerking
was the patron saint of [Harris' eating-house]. That
away for Blake Hopkins in Frisco on a salary, and
was enough. From being a poor, struggling, little
sitting up nights on an extra allowance, helping me
hand-to-mouth enterprise, it had become
arrange and verify the Gould and Curry Extension
celebrated, and overcrowded with customers.
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
Please get those things off, sir, and throw them in
know how, but he might think of a way, maybe.
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-materializel
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