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"Fräulein Chenny, I cannot mit you life midout you liff," and then, feeling that he had somewhat entangled his words, he repeated: "I cannot life midout you Chenny you Chenny midout." Jenny looked at him in perplexity. His manner, the words all were so strange! "That isn't in the lesson," she managed to gasp, holding down her head bashfully. "I cannot life midout you liff!
"Nein," replied Poons, who knew what she meant when he saw the book. Then he added in German that he had been so thoroughly occupied in practising that he had no time, but that he had something of great importance that he wanted to say to her. Jenny almost shook her head off trying to make it clear that she didn't understand a word he said. "Fräulein Chenny," he began again, but gave it up.
Luff, Chenny, luff!" he added. He meant love, for he knew the meaning of that, and he waited for her answer. Perhaps she did not understand, but if she did, all she seemed able to say was: "That isn't in my lesson, Mr. Poons; it isn't in my lesson!"
He opened it, and read her the following with such ardent tenderness and affection, that the girl's heart fairly beat double time. "Fräulein Chenny," he began, putting the piece of paper in the book and pretending that it was part of his lesson.
He needs instruction?" Then he looked at her again. It was too dark for him to see the colour of her eyes. He went to the door. "Jenny," he called, only he pronounced it "Chenny"; "a lamp if you please." "How courteous and dignified his manner is!" thought Miss Stanton, "even in the most commonplace and trivial details of life a man's breeding shows itself."
"Ach, Fräulein Chenny!" said Poons, blushing. "Mr. Poons," gasped Jenny, in complete astonishment, although she must have heard him playing as she came through the hall. "Ach, Fräulein Chenny," he repeated, trying to remember his declaration, but by this time the English sentence he had learned by heart had completely left him.
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