Fill in each numbered blank with one suitable word or phrase.

The room was dark and quiet. Only one boy still didn't go to sleep. He sat on his bed at a far ___(1)___ of the room. Slowly and carefully, he punched small ___(2)___ across a piece of paper with a stylus. Every ___(3)___ minutes he stopped and ran his fingers ___(4)___ the raised dots on ___(5)___ side of the paper. A friend of his came to him ___(6)___ and said, "Louis, are you still punching dots? You'd better stop and get some rest. The teacher will be angry if you sleep in class." The answer ___(7)___ slowly. "I know. I know. I'm ___(8)___ finished now. Go back to sleep, Gauthier." Louis Braille, inventor of the Braille reading method for the blind, put his paper and stylus on a shelf behind his bed. He stood up and went to an open window. He could hardly feel the cool April wind ___(9)___ his face. He knew his method would ___(10)___, no matter what others thought.