MDDM Ch. 72 Dixon and the slave driver

[Terrance]

s~Z wrote:
> 
> >>>Again, the narrator explains the italics as Dixon's voice breaking and
> not the whip cracking on the Driver's body.<<<
> 
> Well, that reading leaves the 10 italicized words spoken before the
> voicebreak unaccounted for.


Yes, but the italics continue after we are told his voice breaks. 
More importantly, the italics continue after the narrator tells us that
Dixon is "shakes the whip at him." To shake a whip is not the same as
whipping a man with a whip.