`` we might be let up , and stay aloft until the last of it has blown itself out- '' but he spoke low and hopelessly , enervated with fatigue and cold , and his eyes lidded down to slits ; when laurence said , `` not yet , my dear ; pray have patience , '' temeraire subsided without further complaint and ate the raw sheep , which was put into his gullet by hand : the galley fires were still out , for safety .