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at 7.45 p.m.,a fact which astrologers will be glad to have. As a child he was delicate; and, like many other children before the darkness of our prison house descends upon them, he was accustomed to see forms moving around him, which grown-ups declared did not exist. His last experience of that kind in childhood was a vision which he had of his father. Vin- cent Turvey was singing in church as a choir boy, when he suddenly saw the apparition of his father. Some weeks afterwards he was told that his father had died at the very time, and at a place 300 miles away. Vincent was ten years old when, for some years, the vision- ary faculty left him. In 1883 he was sent to school in Bedfordshire. He was a wiry, athletic, school boy, with the temperament of quicksilver, and a physique as tough and as spare as a wire nail,
In 1890 he left school, and studied engineer- ing with a view to entering the navy. During the next five years he worked hard at his pro- fession, but he toiled still harder as a cyclist. He was “cycle-mad”—crazy for breaking records. As a member of the North Road Club he entered for fifty-mile road races, and very nearly succeeded in breaking the record. To ride from London to York in twenty hours
at 7.45 p.m.,a fact which astrologers will be glad to have. As a child he was delicate; and, like many other children before the darkness of our prison house descends upon them, he was accustomed to see forms moving around him, which grown-ups declared did not exist. His last experience of that kind in childhood was a vision which he had of his father. Vin- cent Turvey was singing in church as a choir boy, when he suddenly saw the apparition of his father. Some weeks afterwards he was told that his father had died at the very time, and at a place 300 miles away. Vincent was ten years old when, for some years, the vision- ary faculty left him. In 1883 he was sent to school in Bedfordshire. He was a wiry, athletic, school boy, with the temperament of quicksilver, and a physique as tough and as spare as a wire nail,
In 1890 he left school, and studied engineer- ing with a view to entering the navy. During the next five years he worked hard at his pro- fession, but he toiled still harder as a cyclist. He was “cycle-mad”—crazy for breaking records. As a member of the North Road Club he entered for fifty-mile road races, and very nearly succeeded in breaking the record. To ride from London to York in twenty hours
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