<span>I believe we can assume that it is a change in character, due to the more commonly written trope of men being strong and unbeatable, both physically and emotionally. Having this facade crack and break provides a heavier emotional aspect to the scene, as it involves both characters</span>
2, 4, and 5 have to be the answer by process of elimination
Edit: 4 "he followed out his original design," is incorrect but 2 "Endowed with commonsense, as massive and hard as blocks of granite" and 5 "On the score of delicacy, or any scrupulousness which a finer sensibility might have taught him, the Colonel, like most of his breed and generation, was impenetrable." are.
Intransitive since “next week” is not an object
