Question

Which three parts of this excerpt from Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The House of Seven Gables provide direct characterization?

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Endowed with commonsense, as massive and hard as blocks of granite, fastened together by stern rigidity of purpose Endowed with commonsense, as massive and hard as blocks of granite, fastened together by stern rigidity of purpose. 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.

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