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After these had been distributed two figures would be drawn , -- one green and one red , to indicate the fortunate lady and gentleman who would receive respectively the profits which had arisen from this method of selling the cyclopædias , after the expenses of printing and distribution had been covered , and after the magazines had been ordered . Great cheering followed this announcement from all but me . Here I had shut myself up in this humbug hall , for Heaven knew how long , on the most important day of my life . I would have given up willingly my cyclopædia and my chance at the `` profits , '' for the certainty of seeing Fausta at five o'clock . If I did not see her then , what might befall her , and when might I see her again . An hour before this certainty was my own , now it was only mine by my liberating myself from this prison . Still I was encouraged by seeing that everything was conducted like clock-work .