Sentence:  Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such <WSD>sort</WSD> as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Manner; form of being or acting.