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said Agnes , eagerly hoping that she had done her brother injustice in her first horrible thought . `` Sir Eustace Lynwood , if you spake of him , is no prisoner , but is here at Bordeaux . '' `` He shall not long be so , '' said Leonard . `` Heard you not this very noon that the Prince bestows on him the government of Chateau Norbelle on the marches of Gascony ? Well , that is the matter treated of in this letter . Let me see , let me see , how was it to be ? Yes , that is it !