- and this , '' jane was shouting , `` is how i am told , days past the event ; when the stupidest scuttling crab might conceive that , as soon as bonaparte knows what has happened , as soon as he sees his beasts growing sick , he will come across at once ; at once , if he is not a gawping fool - and you drag me here to dover , with two longwings and our celestial , and the damned channel hanging open like rotten row - `` when musgrave rising beckoned to the guards , to stand open the door .