It came slowly toward her house, the drunken beautiful voice.

From somewhere in the distance came the sound of angry, drunken voices and a woman's scream.

Far away, a drunken voice called; faint footsteps hurried, faded.

The lack of babbling drunken voices made the place seem to echo when someone spoke.

"Five hundred, and not a pound more" was called out in a drunken voice.

Someone began to sing in a drunken voice that had an edge like a rusty knife.

Somewhere far away through the open window a drunken voice laughed once and then was silent.

"Thank you, cousin," he said, his voice still slow and drunken.

But then he would hear a deep and unmistakably drunken female voice: 'He's out!

Finally a window opened and a drunken voice demanded what he wanted.