Excerpt from Memoirs of Robert-Houdin, Vol. 2 of 2: Ambassador, Author, and Conjuror

This scene, with some others that preceded and fol lowed it, compelled me to take measures to guard. Myself against bores of every description. I could not dream, as formerly, of exiling myself in the country, but I employed a similar resource: this was to shut myself up in my workroom, and organise around me a system of defence against those whom I called, in my ill-temper, thieves of time.

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