Which parts of this excerpt from nathaniel hawthorne’s novel the house of seven gables provide direct characterization?

1. Endowed with commonsense, as a massive and hard as blocks of granite,
2. 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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