No one would yet have guaranteed success, but every one was full of hope.
After this preliminary examination, M.Renault put his laboratory at the service of his guests.

He offered them all that he possessed, with a munificence which was not entirely free from vanity.

In case the employment of electricity should appear necessary, he had a powerful battery of Leyden jars and forty of Bunsen's elements, which were entirely new.

M.Nibor thanked him smilingly.
"Save your riches," said he.

"With a bath-tub and caldron of boiling water, we will have everything we need.