Sentence:  At twilight in the summer...the mice come out. They...eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkly, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so <WSD>disposed</WSD>, sprinkling crumbs lavishly...on the floor. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To incline.