I saw him risk his life blindly in the sea at Brighton where we were bathing together.If we had done any exercise unique to my own nation I would have looked after Pesca carefully；but as foreigners are generally quite as well able to take care of themselves in the water as Englishmen，it never occurred to me that the art of swimming might add one more to the list of manly exercises which he believed that he could learn on the spot.

　　Soon after we had both struck out from shore，I stopped，finding my friend didn’t follow me.To my amazement，I saw nothing but two little arms struggling above the surface of the water.I dived and pulled him back to the shore.When he recovered，his warm Southern nature broke.He declared that he should never be happy again until he offered me some service which I might remember to the end of my days.

　　Little did I think then that the opportunity of serving me was soon to come；that he was eager to seize it；and that by so doing he was to turn my existence into a new channel.If I had not dived for Professor Pesca when he lay under water，I should never，perhaps，have heard even the name of the woman，who now directs the purpose of my life.

　　5．The author didn’t look after Pesca carefully when bathing in the sea due to the fact that

　　.

　　A．they both had done the unusual English exercise before

　　B．foreigners were generally bathing not far from the shore

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