I like commas.

“That's what you get,' he said, nodding towards a group of the men engaged in so…”

“Creff, my factotum, interrupted the breakfast he had brought me only a few minu…”

“He turned away from me, the better to hide the exclamation of annoyance which h…”

“Adventures, I reflected, are all very fine but a certain amount of civilised co…”