Sentence:  It was fortunate for his comfort, perhaps, that the man who had been chosen to accompany him was of a talkative <WSD>turn</WSD>, for the prisoners insisted upon hearing the story of the explosion a dozen times over, and Rufus Dawes himself had been roused to give the name of the vessel with his own lips. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Character; personality; nature.