Then the old man broke in, with his slurred, toothless voice.

They started to carry him inside, but he said, in a weak and slurred voice, "No.

In a very slurred voice he complained that his hands hurt.

Then, heavy breathing and a slurred, sleep-heavy voice came on.

"You're going to pay for that," she said in a slurred voice.

"You could stay here with me," Stanhope said, his voice even more slurred than before.

He tried to mutter a warning, but couldn't hear his own slurred voice.

This time a man with a slurred voice answered.

Was the slurred voice from the injury, or from drugs?

"She had help," someone said in a slurred, heavy voice.