idler

But this alternately joyous and silent idler, this soldier of no regiment and no detail—was he playing a man's part in the war?

And meantime there goes the idler, who began life along with them—by your leave, a different picture.

The references towards the end are to the illustrations in the pages of The Idler.

Beside him sat Robert Bertram, the club idler, slender and languidly elegant.

Weel, time gaed by: and the idler sort commenced to think mair lichtly o' that black business.