God forbid that I should live an Emperor without an Empire. As my city falls, I will fall with it.
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To some one in the imperial suite who suggested that there was, perhaps, still time for the Emperor to reach the harbour safely. Chedomil Mijatovich, Constantine: The Last Emperor of the Greeks; or, The Conquest of Constantinople by the Turks (London: Sampson, Low, Marson & Co, 1892) p. 220