How did Douglas handle the 'old sensation'?

Directions: Read the given extract to attempt questions that follow:     Tiny vestiges of the old terror would return. But now I could frown and say to that terror, 'Trying to scare me, eh? Well, here's to you! Look!' And off I'd go for another length of the pool. This went on until July. But I was still not satisfied. I was not sure that all the terror had left. So,     I went to Lake Wentworth in New Hampshire, dived off a dock at Triggs Island, and swam two miles across the lake to Stamp Act Island. I swam the crawl, breast stroke, side stroke, and back stroke. Only once did the terror... Show more

Directions: Read the given extract to attempt questions that follow:    
Tiny vestiges of the old terror would return. But now I could frown and say to that terror, 'Trying to scare me, eh?

Well, here's to you! Look!' And off I'd go for another length of the pool. This went on until July. But I was still not satisfied. I was not sure that all the terror had left. So,    
I went to Lake Wentworth in New Hampshire, dived off a dock at Triggs Island, and swam two miles across the lake to Stamp Act Island. I swam the crawl, breast stroke, side stroke, and back stroke. Only once did the terror return.    
When I was in the middle of the lake, I put my face under and saw nothing but bottomless water. The old sensation returned in miniature.    

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