CHAPTER XXII.
HIGH ART IN THE QUARTIER LATIN.
"But, my dear fellow, what else could you have expected?
You took Mam'selle Josephine to the _Opera Comique.

Eh bien!_ you might as well have taken an oyster up Mount Vesuvius.

Our fair friend was out of her element.

_Voila tout_." "Confound her and her element!" I exclaimed with a groan.

"What the deuce _is_ her element--the Quartier Latin ?" "The Quartier Latin is to some extent her habitat--but then Mam'selle Josephine belongs to a genus of which you, _cher_ Monsieur Arbuthnot, are deplorably ignorant--the genus grisette.