They felt it might be a being partially benighted in the vale of ignorance, but it could not be one who would willingly devote his rich natural gifts to the purposes of wanton treachery.

• 他们觉得，这个人虽然可能有些蒙昧无知，但他决不是一个乐于把自己高贵的天赋用于背信弃义的人。