Alcott had studied Chinese culture, but the story has the ambience familiar to readers of "Little Women," of sweet, dutiful girls who in the end always do the right thing.
During the course of the book, Faith will erupt from her role as "good girl" and dutiful daughter.
Part dutiful daughter, part strategic planner, the only girl in the group already has a marketable startup idea, a Facebook internship under her belt and just one more year of school.
She was a pious girl who memorized Koranic verse and prayed five times a day, a dutiful daughter who helped her father with his finances and massaged his aching back, family members said.
Elena, the daughter of a porter at City Hall, is a good girl, dutiful and watchful where Lila, the daughter of a shoemaker, is always "narrowing" her eyes at that which displeases her, quick to throw stones back at the boys who torment them.
As the girl dutifully aims her little camera, her father advises the lion, "Say antelope".
Now, I'm going to describe what happens next as delicately and dutifully as possible: Girl A squats over Girl B's face, grunts, and out from her body crawls what could only be described by medical professionals as a "chunky-spunk semen demon".
Susan turns out to be no troublemaker but a virginal, dutiful, and self-sacrificing girl who's under arrest for beaning a sailor who got fresh, and she suspects Mark of having prurient designs on her — until, to keep her out of jail on vagrancy charges, he offers to marry her, despite his engagement to a senator's daughter (Anne Francis).
