Rough though it be, the childhood of the cottage girl is not without its recompenses, the most valuable of which is sturdy health.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
"It is the poor reverse of a splendid stuff," he said, "wonderful recompenses are granted, even in this world, to souls in convents."
"En Route"
J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
"Thus Heaven recompenses virtue," said Caderousse.
"The World's Greatest Books, Vol III"
Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.