Beethoven's Dream. From painting by Aimé de Lemud.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, in her story of "The Silent Partner," tells how "a line engraving after De Lemud could make a 'forgetting' in the life of a factory girl.
"An engraving that lay against a rich easel in a corner of the room attracted the girl's attention presently. She went down on her knees to examine it. It chanced to be Lemud's dreaming Beethoven. Sip was very still about it.
"'What is that fellow doing?' she asked, after a while. 'Him with the stick in his hand.'
"She pointed to the leader of the shadowy orchestra, touching the baton through the glass, with her brown fingers.
"'I have always supposed,' said Perley, 'that he was only floating with the rest; you see the orchestra behind him.'
"'Floating after those women with their arms up? No, he isn't.'
"'What is he doing?'