temeraire subsided muttering , and crowded up as close as he could to the nervous guards , trying to hover protectively near laurence ; a dish of tea was brought him , which he sniffed suspiciously and then disdained , and a glass of cold sillery , which laurence did not ; a slight cooling breeze came off the water and the greenery of the park , and the vast marbled space was pleasant , with somewhere hidden a running gurgle of water over stone , but the day was still very hot , even with the morning not yet far advanced .