"Youth and comeliness were gone, but the foppishness remained, and the red-faced man, with false teeth and the voice of a worn-out actor had his scanty grey hair curled"

Louisa May Alcott, after seeing Dickens

“Youth and comeliness were gone, but the foppishness remained, and the red-faced man, with false teeth and the voice of a worn-out actor had his scanty grey hair curled.”

I think she was implying that he was ‘mutton dressed as lamb’

I got this originally from Lee Jackson on Dickensland - The lost world of Dickens London - History Extra podcast