And then how pitiful to think that he—with all his gifts—should be irreclaimable, after all.

然后想到他——带着他所有的天——是无法挽回的，真是可怜。

According to this version of the story, Judge Pyncheon, exemplary as we have portrayed him in our narrative, was, in his youth, an apparently irreclaimable scapegrace.

根据这个版本的故事，叙述中描绘的品钦法官堪称楷模，但他年轻时显然是一个无可挽回的替罪羊。