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He is prim, charming and ultrafastidious; he is vain but considerate, sharp but deferential, faultless about manners and etiquette but, when it is time to issue a verdict, thoroughly ruthless.

From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2022

Mr. Bevan, in short, was a model of the ultrafastidious man of the world as he figures in the novels of Bulwer Lytton and Disraeli.

From Memoirs of Life and Literature by Mallock, W. H. (William Hurrell)