Leo Tolstoy

“ Seeing me twice run across the courtyard in quest of the money, the cabman must have divined the reason, for, leaping from his drozhki, he--notwithstanding that he had seemed so kind--began to bawl aloud (with an evident desire to punch my head) that people who do not pay for their cab-rides are swindlers. ”

“ I said.
"Those affairs of yours--they are God`s business," he repeated, mumbling the words with his toothless lips.
"No, he has not understood me," I thought to myself, and said no more to him till we reached home. ”

“ To this day I blush at the recollection.
"Well, well!" said the cabman non-committally, and for a long while afterwards he remained silent and motionless, except that at intervals he adjusted the skirt of his coat each time that it was jerked from beneath his leg by the joltings of his huge boot on the drozhki`s step. I felt sure that he must be thinking of me even as the priest had done. That is to say, that he must be thinking that no such fine-spirited young man existed in the world as I. Suddenly he shot at me:
"I tell you what, barin. You ought to keep God`s affairs to yourself." ”