disposition

You don’t know much about her or her real disposition, I suppose, and there’s no guessing how a child like that will turn out.

Then Marilla suddenly became aware of an uncomfortable and rebuking consciousness that she felt more humiliation over this than sorrow over the discovery of such a serious defect in Anne’s disposition.

I understand that child’s disposition and what’s good for it better than you, Matthew.”

Therefore Marilla conceived it to be her duty to drill Anne into a tranquil uniformity of disposition as impossible and alien to her as to a dancing sunbeam in one of the brook shallows.