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So Remus listened to Romulus and began to be less contrite in his home-letters . To the smallest love at home -LRB- of the kind that understands , or tries to understand -RRB- he would have responded religiously ; but he had found such nowhere save in Dick -- who , besides , was a gallant young gentleman , and scrupulous on all points of honour . He took fire from Dick ; almost worshipped him ; and wished now , as the flotilla swept on and the bands woke louder echoes from the narrowing shore , that Dick were here to see how the last few weeks had tanned and hardened him . The troops came to land before nightfall at Sabbath Day Point , twenty-five miles down the lake ; stretched themselves to doze for a while in the dry undergrowth ; re-embarked under the stars and , rowing on through the dawn , reached the lake-end at ten in the morning . Here they found the first trace of the enemy -- a bridge broken in two over the river which drains into Lake Champlain . A small French rear-guard loitered here ; but two companies of riflemen were landed and drove it back into the woods , without loss . The boats discharged the British unopposed , who now set forward afoot through the forest to follow the left bank of the stream , which , leaving the lake tranquilly , is broken presently by stony rapids and grows smooth again only as it nears its new reservoir .