1.   It gives the rest of us the pleasure of seeing virtue rewarded.

2.   Sharing tales of kindness and courage, we are encouraged to think that our own virtue will be rewarded.

3.   Sins were punished almost in exact proportion to their seriousness, and virtue was rewarded with happy endings.

4.   Surely, they felt, they would be vindicated, their virtue rewarded.

5.   Virtue was soon rewarded.

6.   Virtue was rewarded.