Toward the end of the dinner Ellis was successful.

All at once the Dummy got upon his feet, his eyes were glazed with drunkenness, he swayed about in an irregular circle, holding up, now by the table, now by the chair-back, and now by the wall behind him.

He was very angry, exasperated beyond control by Ellis' raillery and abuse.

He forgot himself and uttered a series of peculiar cries very faint and shrill, like the sounds of a voice heard through a telephone when some imperfection of transmission prevents one from distinguishing the words.
His mouth was wide open and his tongue rolled about in an absurd way between his teeth.

Now and then one could catch a word or two.