Claire would soliloquize at such times.
"Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter"
Lawrence L. Lynch
Book in hand, he would, on fine days, pace to and fro, often stopping, dear man, to jot down a pencil-note, gesticulate, or soliloquize.
"The Caxtons, Part 2"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
So Mr. Swiveller spent half the night or more over this pleasing exercise, merely stopping now and then to take breath and soliloquize about the Marchioness; and it was only after he 'had nearly maddened the people of the house, and at both the next doors, and over the way,' that he shut up the book and went to sleep.
"Charles Dickens and Music"
James T. Lightwood