soliloquize
verb (used without object)
to utter a soliloquy; talk to oneself.
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
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“She’ll likely be comin’ down on the marnin’ train,” the skipper had soliloquized, and gone inside to change his clothes and wash.
From The Strength of the Strong by Jack London