It was the exhilarating effect—upon a prisoner just escaped from the dungeon of his own heart—of breathing the wild, free atmosphere of an unredeemed, unchristianized, lawless region.

这是一种令人振奋的效果——对一个刚刚从他自己内心的地牢中逃出来的囚犯来说——呼吸到一个未被救赎、未被基督教化、无法无天的地区的狂野、自由的气氛。