What the deuce is it to me? he interrupted impatiently: you say that w…

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What the deuce is it to me? he interrupted impatiently: you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work. ✨ A Study in Scarlet ch. 2 (1888)
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What the deuce is it to me? he interrupted impatiently: you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work. ✨ A Study in Scarlet ch. 2 (1888)

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