It was an annoyance added to the elder Mr Longestaffe that the management of Melmotte’s affairs fell at last almost exclusively into the hands of Mr Brehgert.  Now Brehgert, in spite of his many dealings with Melmotte, was an honest man, and, which was perhaps of as much immediate consequence, both an energetic and a patient man.  But then he was the man who had wanted to marry Georgiana Longestaffe, and he was the man to whom Mr Longestaffe had been particularly uncivil.  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 moved quite at once.  ’Mr...