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In addition to his lumber business Mr. Jenness, in connection with three others, built the propeller B. W. Jenness, for carrying lumber and trading from Buffalo to Chicago and intermediate ports. She carries about 330,000 feet of lumber, and cost $50,000. He has also been part owner of several other vessels since he has resided here. Mr.
There was a sixth plate laid, but the captain made no further mention of the person who was not out yet till shortly after the coffee was poured, when the absentee appeared, hastily closing his state-room door behind him, and then waiting on foot, with a half-impudent, half-intimidated air, while Captain Jenness, with a sort of elaborate repressiveness, presented him as Mr. Hicks.
One morning, about three years previous to the day when Edward Lynde set forth on his aimless pilgrimage, Mr. Jenness Bowlsby, the president of the Nautilus Bank at Rivermouth, received the following letter from his wife's nephew, Mr. John Flemming, a young merchant in New York NEW YORK, May 28,1869. MY DEAR UNCLE: In the course of a few days a friend of mine, Mr.
"Well," observed the captain at last, with the air of giving the devil his due, "I've seen some very good people among the Catholics." "That's so, Captain Jenness," said the first officer. "I don't see," said Lydia, without relaxing her gaze, "why, if you are a Catholic, you read the service of a Protestant church."
A light breeze crept along the water, which was here blue and clear, and the grateful coolness and pleasant motion brought light into the girl's cheeks and eyes. Without knowing it she smiled. "That's right!" cried Captain Jenness, who had applauded her sob in the same terms. "You'll like it, first-rate. Look at that ship! That's the Aroostook. Is she a beauty, or ain't she?"
"Where were you going, that morning?" "Oh, to the cathedral. Captain Jenness left me there, and I looked all through it till he came back from the consulate." "Left you there alone!" cried Staniford. "Yes; I told him I should not feel lonely, and I should not stir out of it till he came back.
I can't tell whether she knows it all or not; but if you suppose her unconscious till now, it's pathetic. And black silks must be too rare in her life not to be celebrated by a high tumult of inner satisfaction. I'm glad we bowed down to the new dress." "Yes," assented Dunham, with an uneasy absence; "but Staniford, I should like to propose to Captain Jenness our having service this morning.
And the second was like unto it, albeit we were no longer a triangle, made up of wagon-train here and main command there, and our twenty-nine less two lost ones under Captain Jenness, at a third point. Before noon, our force was all united and we joined hands for the finish. Beverly and I rode side by side all day.
Staniford refused point-blank to be a party to the new enterprise, and left Dunham to his own devices at dinner, where he proposed the matter. "If you had my Persis here, now," observed Captain Jenness, "with her parlor organ, you could get along." "I wish Miss Jenness was here," said Dunham, politely. "But we must try to get on as it is.
One day the bow was scarlet, and another crimson; Staniford did not know which was better, and disputed the point in vain with Dunham. They all grew to have a taste in such matters. Captain Jenness praised her dress outright, and said that he should tell his girls about it.
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