Pernicious.

CHANTECLER
In what way?

PATOU
In every way!

CHANTECLER
[_Ironical._] Bad as all that, is it? [_The_ PEACOCK'S _squall is heard
in the distance: "Ee--yong!"_]

PATOU
And then that cry, the Peacock's!

[_The_ PEACOCK, _further off: "Ee--yong!"_]

PATOU
More out of tune all by itself than a whole village singing society!

CHANTECLER
Come, what have they done to you, that whistler and that posturer?

PATOU
[_Grumbling._] They have done to me--that I know not what they may do to
you! They have done to me--that among us simple, kindly folk they have
introduced new fashions, the Blackbird of being funny, the Peacock of
putting on airs! Fashions which the latter in his grotesque bad taste
picked up parading on the marble terraces of the vulgar rich, and the
former--Heaven knows where! along with his cynicism and his slang. Now