A melody and the counter melody to it should sound well as a duet without accompaniment.

The besieged sprung a Mine under the Assailants first line, which buried Captain Kalkreiter, and some Souldiers. But seeing they could not take post for want of Earth […] it was thought expedient to make a retreat;

Their silence would have been awkward but for the loquacity of Jane, who talked enough for all three.

Oh here we go again, a nazicrat bringing up there hero Bubba Clinton.