There are other ways of doing these things.

If it were but the cutting of a throat, should we have sent for you?
There are a dozen in the garrison would have sufficed for our purpose." "What is it, then, you need ?" quoth he.
"We want an affair contrived with all decency.

The Marquis is at the Sanglier Noir at La Rochette.

You can have no difficulty in finding him, and having found him, less difficulty still in giving or provoking insult." "Excellent," murmured Marius from the background.

"It is such an enterprise as should please a ready swordsman of your calibre, Fortunio." "A duel ?" quoth the fellow, and his insolence went out of him, thrust out by sheer dismay; his mouth fell open.