"Really, Mr. President, I am surprised that the member should deny what we all know. Why, the piece is in our reading book."
"Daniel Webster put the speech into the mouth of Adams," added Frank; "and the patriot is only supposed to have made it."
"It amounts to the same thing," continued Charles, with a slight blush.
"But your quotation was not correct," said Fred.
"Perhaps the member will give me the correct reading of the passage."
"With pleasure; the lines are from Shakspeare:—
'There's a Divinity that shapes our ends,
Roughhew them as we will.'
I fancy the lines will not suit the member now," continued Fred, as he cast a mischievous glance at the discomfited speech-maker.
"Go on, if you please," said Frank to Charles.
"As I was saying, Mr. President, 'There's a Divinity that shapes our ends'—"