celeritas looked over at him with his dark green eyes perplexed and doubtful ; temeraire said in a sudden rush , `` pray forgive me , it is all a hum , we are taking them to france so all the dragons there do not die , and tell them laurence did not like to do it , at all , only i insisted upon it , '' not a pause for breath or punctuation , and snatching laurence with the tub up in his talons , he flung himself away into the air .