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"The Million Pound Bank Note" is a short story by the American author Mark Twain, published in Contents. 1 Plot; 2 Film, television and radio adaptations.
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One Million Pound Bank Note
The Million Pound Bank Note. Plot The story takes place in Victorian London, where two very rich, eccentric brothers, Oliver and Roderick Montpelier, give the penniless story protagonist , Henry Adams, one million pounds of money in the form of a single peerless bank note.
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Funding for USA. Congress, E-Government Act of Crowd sourced content that is contributed to World Heritage Encyclopedia is peer reviewed and edited by our editorial staff to ensure quality scholarly research articles. The story takes place in Victorian London, where Henry Adams, the protagonist, has ended up destitute after a boating accident in the U.
Two rich and eccentric brothers see him and give him an envelope with money inside it: a single bank note for one million pounds. Henry is the subject of a bet: one brother believes that the possession of the symbol of wealth, without any other means of support, will help him survive for the month. The other brother thinks that the prohibition against exchanging the note for cash will render it useless Henry realizes that he would not be easily able to exchange the bank note in the bank without being questioned about how he had come to have it, charged with theft and arrested.
He would also not be able to spend it since no ordinary person would be able to change it. Finally, in desperation, Henry decides to see if he can use the note to get a cheap suit to replace his rags, similar to the way he got his meal; when he pulls out the million-pound note to pay, the store manager gives him an entire wardrobe on credit.
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Ultimately, he becomes a celebrity in London as the "vest pocket million-pounder" or the "vest-pocket monster", and Harris' dining house becomes so famous that Harris actually lends Henry money, but Henry tries to keep his borrowings under control so that he will be able to pay everyone back over time when he gets his situation. After 10 days of growing fame, Henry reports to the US ambassador in London, who Henry learns was a classmate of his father's at Yale.
He is invited to a dinner party that night where he meets a young British woman, Portia Langham, with whom he is instantly smitten. During flirting, he tells her the entire story of the gentlemen and their bet, which she finds hilarious.
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At the end of the month, Portia insists on going with Henry to see the brothers. Henry's success entitles him to a situation from Brother B, but Henry turns it down, showing the brothers his profits from the mining deal.
At that, Portia reveals that Brother B is her stepfather, and Henry then asks him for the "situation" as his son-in-law.