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This illustration, appearing on page 436a of the [1899] George Routledge and Sons edition, depicts Alice and Ellen holding hands as Alice tells Ellen that she is terminally ill. Alice sits with one arm wrapped around Ellen as Ellen stands next to her looking down sadly. A large cabinet stands behind the two . A caption below the illustration quotes a sentence from page 436 of the text and reads, "Alice held her and looked sadly for a minute into the woebegone little face, then clasped her close and kissed her again and again."

A black and white frontispiece from the 1899 George Routledge & Sons, Ltd. Reprint. The image depicts Aunt Fortune, brandishing a bean pole, a determined and fierce look on her face, ready to fight off Timothy the bull. Ellen stands behind her, hiding in a bush.

In the title page of George Routledge and Sons, Limited's 1899 edition of the novel, the title is printed in the page's top quarter without a period. The author's pseudonym Elizabeth Wetherell is printed below. An inscription taken from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's, "To a Child," appears in the page's middle. George Routledge and Sons, Limited's address is listed as, "London, Broadway, Ludgate Hill," and "Manchester and New York."