at last he allowed himself to be calmed , and laurence thought nothing more of it ; but in the morning , sitting and reading with temeraire - now puzzling laboriously , for his benefit , through a famous novel by the writer goethe , a piece of somewhat dubious morality called die leiden des jungen werther - laurence saw the formations go up for their battle-drills , and temeraire , still smarting , took the opportunity to make a great many critical remarks upon their form , which seemed to laurence accurate so far as he could follow them .