Possible Clues:

• Beggar given state scholarship
• Virginia gets allowance from wanderer
• Five by way of donation to the tramp
• The tramp after five gets a present
• Having no fixed abode, I abandon source of potency for books
• Erratic old lady maybe falling into tank
• Unsettled person, a tramp
• Five as a hand-out for the tramp
• Tramp proclaimed ill-defined harangue
• Virginia gets bursary, despite being nomadic