Then there arose necessities for the presence of Mr. Brehgert in the house in which Melmotte had lately lived and had died. The dead man's papers were still there,--deeds, documents, and such letters as he had not chosen to destroy;--and these could not be removed quite at once. 
Mr. Brehgert needed to be in the house, for the dead man's papers were still there - those that he had not destroyed - and could not yet be removed.
