Match the themes from Mark Twain's "The £1,000,000 Bank Note" with the excerpts they represent:
Themes:
- impending doom
- wealth worship
- rags to riches
Excerpts:
- "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..."
- "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..."
- "Why, it isn't six months since you were clerking away for Blake Hopkins in Frisco on a salary, and tolling 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!"
- "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..."
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