Knock, Knock, Knock and Other Stories

Lieutenant Tyeglev belonged precisely to the class of those "e;fatal"e; individuals, though he did not possess the exterior commonly associated with them; he was not, for instance, in the least like Lermontov's "e;fatalist."e; He was a man of medium height, fairly solid and round-shouldered, with fair, almost white eyebrows and eyelashes; he had a round, fresh, rosy-cheeked face, a turn-up nose, a...