'_If I loved not purity more than you_,' he would say to her, '_I were not worthy of you_.' And further, just as he requires to possess this taintless conscience himself, so does he require to be assured that the like is possessed by her.

Unless he knows that she loves purity more than him, there is no meaning in his aspiration that he may be found worthy of her.

The gift of her affection that is of such value to him, is not of value because it is affection simply, but because it is affection of a high kind; and its elevation is of more consequence to him than its intensity, or even than its continuance.

He would sooner that at the expense of its intensity it remained pure, than that at the expense of its purity it remained intense.

Othello was certainly not a husband of the highest type, and yet we see something of this even in his case.