„thinning on the top, and his grey side-whiskers were trimmed shorter

„thinning on the top, and his grey side-whiskers were trimmed shorter, in keeping with recent style. The lines on his thin face were more pronounced, running down from the edges of his beaked nose, past his thin mouth, towards his long, pointed chin. The hollows under his cheekbones were somewhat deeper, and there was a flap of slack skin under his chin that comes to us all, thanks to the merciless force of gravity. His eyes remained bright and sharp