“But what did he mean by that?”

Metternich remarking upon hearing the news of Castlereagh's death by suicide.
Greenhalgh, Michael. Marble Past, Monumental Present: Building with Antiquities in the Mediaeval Mediterranean. Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands, 2009 (pp. 20).

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