True, generous feeling is made small account of by some, but here were two natures rendered, the one intolerably acrid, the other despicably savourless for the want of it.
诚然,这种真诚而慷慨的情感在某些人那里往往被忽视了,但在这里却展现出了两种截然不同的性格特征:一种让人感到无比刺鼻,另一种则因缺乏这种品质而显得毫无魅力可言。