Александр Левкин

sere and yellow

You don't know Sherlock Holmes yet,” he said; “perhaps you would not care for him as a constant companion.”

“But the Solar System!” I protested.

“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.”