Although he was already fifty-three years old, he was so well preserved that he seemed much younger. He was tall, lean, agile and strong; with very little grey hair; his mustache and beard were trimmed and black; he was very neat and tidy in his whole person and attire; and with blue eyes, expressive and large. He did not lack a tooth or molar, which were healthy, firm and very white and even. Don Paco was considered a man of very pleasant and joyful conversation, sprinkled with jokes, with which he made people laugh without offending or hurting others, and a skilled storyteller, because he perfectly knew the life and miracles, the adventures of love and fortune, and the wealth and poverty of all human beings who breathed and lived in Villalegre and for twenty leagues around.