Now that I saw him as he was, he came out the same bold and manly form as ever.
He did not notice me.

He rushed down with a certain wild joy into the turbulent water, and, plunging in with a loud cry, buffeted the huge waves with those strong curving arms of his.

The sou'-wester was rising.
Each breaker as it reared caught him on its crest and tumbled him over like a cork, but like a cork he rose again.

He was swimming now, arm over arm, straight out seaward.

I saw the lifted hands between the crest and the trough.