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This black and white frontispiece is from the 1895 Willia L. Allison Co. "Allison's New Stand Library" Reprint. It depicts Ellen hugging her a bedridden Mamma goodbye, as Papa looks on, ready to take her down to the carriage that awaits. The image itself is framed with filigree, a leafy stalk decorating and surrounding the image, in a manner that reminds one of a postcard over a pressed plant. The title of the image is a quote from the scene "He is coming to take me away!"

This black and white illustration, found on page 64a of the [1907] Grosset & Dunlap reprint, depicts Ellen saying goodbye to her mother. In the illustration, Ellen is embracing her mother in bed as her father reaches for her to come with him. A caption below the illustration reads, "It seemed as if she would pour out her very heart in tears." The scene depicted in this illustration is on page 65 of the novel.

This is the title page vignette to the [1853] Clarke, Beeton, & Co. Reprint, Version 1. The picture is identical to the illustration on the cover. The illustration depicts Ellen saying goodbye to her mother, Mama, as her father stands in the background. As with the cover, the illustration is framed in decorative ivy decoration with the book title, author, and publisher incorporated into the vinery frame.