Percepied, whose loud voice and bushy eyebrows enabled him to play to his heart's content the part of 'double-dealer,' a part to which he was not, otherwise, adapted, without in the least degree compromising his unassailable and quite unmerited reputation of being a kind-hearted old curmudgeon, could make the Curé and everyone else laugh until they cried by saying in a harsh voice: "What d'ye say to this, now?
Percepied doktoreak, zeinari bere ahots lodiak eta bekain sarriek-nahiz eta gainerakoan halako itxurarik izan ez-nolabaiteko gaizto-papera nahierara antzezten uzten baitzioten bere zakarrontzi onkote fama merezigabearen ospe hauskaitza ezertan kaltetu gabe, ederki zekien apaizari eta jende guztiari malkoetarainoko barrea eragiten, honelakoak esanez zorrotz plantan: "Tira, ba, ondo dago!