Word: vagabondism
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...mistaken for a thunderbolt; Mr. Mellor, the eccentric Pre-Raphaelite painter at No. 5; the Tom-Sawyerish pranks of the Gurney children, whose fearsome governess wore a respirator over her mouth when she ventured outdoors, all lend variety to Author Mackenzie's reminiscences. The touching story of Vagabond William Cobb who lived & died in the attic of empty No. 25, and the final setting straight of his Aunt Adelaide's crippled Victorian romance are matters of a longer fibre that bind the scattered memories into a close-packed nosegay...
Inasmuch as the Vagabond was an unbidden, unexpected and unknown guest, the saluation was startling in its directness...
...young gentleman when first seen was sitting on the doorstep staring disconsolately at the ground. Rain from the eaves dripped steadily down upon the rusty thatch of his head, but he noticed it not. There are some thoughts which are more searing than mere physical discomfort. As the Vagabond approached the better to divine the cause of all this anguish the young gentleman looked...
...Hardly," and the tone implied, so the Vagabond hoped, that the question was as ill-timed as if Lancelot, baiting Arthur, might ask if he had seen "Shanghai Express." But age is the only anachronism for youth and bitterness passed unnoticed...
This is the story of the fountains. Here is the superior detachment of '95, the sweet, sad memories of '28, the slumbrous indifference of '35. And with whom does the Vagabond range his forces? There can be but one choice, but one loyalty--with '28. '95 is too old and '35 is too young, but we, in our time, we have known. Give back the Cambridge heat, the long drawn chuckle, and the water sparkling in the moonlight. The Bourbons have gone, but the Lily remains. Guy Fawkes is dead, but they hunt him out each year in quivering candle...