Without an effort she could have saved those harmless natives from the calamity of French civilization, and she did not do it.

Now it is too late.
The signs of the times show plainly enough what is going to happen.

All the savage lands in the world are going to be brought under subjection to the Christian governments of Europe.

I am not sorry, but glad.

This coming fate might have been a calamity to those savage peoples two hundred years ago; but now it will in some cases be a benefaction.