`` the unharnessed beasts can less easily be taken by boarding , if bonaparte should manage to put together some clever little strike , '' she went on , `` so it would be just as well to make temeraire 's regiment the guard ; and let him hash this out with wellesley , before we have a mutiny on our hands : i have n't the right to promise them anything , and you may be sure if i did their lordships would n't abide by it .