Which three parts of this excerpt from nathaniel hawthorne’s novel “the house of seven gables” provide direct characterization? he was ready to encounter an evil spirit endowed with common sense as massive and hard as blocks of granite fastened togethercby stern rigidity of purpose he followed out his original design on the score of delicacy of any scrupulousness which a finer sensibility might have taught him the colonel like most of his breed and generation was impenetrable he therefore dug is cellar and laid the deep foundations of his mansion whence mather maule forty years before had first swept away the fallen leaves