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""Heaven! What have I done?" exclaimed he. "The vapor, the influence of that brute force,—it has bewildered me and obscured my perception. I have made the very stroke—the fatal stroke—that I have dreaded from the first. It is all over—the toil of months, the object of my life. I am ruined!"And there he sat, in strange despair, until his lamp flickered in the socket and left the Artist of the Beautiful in darkness."

— Nathaniel Hawthorne