Then, a few sentence later:Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful. I will watch with the wiliness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom. Man, you shall repent of the injuries you inflict.
Devil, cease; and do not poison the air with these sounds of malice. I have declared my resolution to you, and I am no coward to bend beneath words. Leave me; I am inexorable.
It is well. I go; but remember, I shall be with you on your wedding-night.
I started forward and exclaimed, Villain! Before you sign my death-warrant, be sure that you are yourself safe.
I would have seized him, but he eluded me and quitted the house with precipitation. In a few moments I saw him in his boat, which shot across the waters with an arrowy swiftness and was soon lost amidst the waves.
All was again silent, but his words rang in my ears. I burned with rage to pursue the murderer of my peace and precipitate him into the ocean. I walked up and down my room hastily and perturbed, while my imagination conjured up a thousand images to torment and sting me. Why had I not followed him and closed with him in mortal strife? But I had suffered him to depart, and he had directed his course towards the mainland. I shuddered to think who might be the next victim sacrificed to his insatiate revenge. And then I thought again of his words --
I will be with you on your wedding-night.
That, then, was the period fixed for the fulfilment of my destiny. In that hour I should die and at once satisfy and extinguish his malice. The prospect did not move me to fear; yet when I thought of my beloved Elizabeth, of her tears and endless sorrow, when she should find her lover so barbarously snatched from her, tears, the first I had shed for many months, streamed from my eyes, and I resolved not to fall before my enemy without a bitter struggle
I don't think that politeness enters into it, I just think it's an unused vernacular."I shall" is more polite than "I will". I will is more direct, and common on a daily basis of conversation. I guess you can say "I shall" is more old fasion
Usage: The traditional rules require that shall be used with the first person to indicate simple futurity and that will be used for that same purpose with the second and third persons. These rules are rarely observed in American English, however, even at the most formal levels, and the widespread practice of using will to indicate futurity with all three persons is acceptable to a majority of the Usage Panel.
I'd like to add that words like shall are antiquated...
The teachers taught us "shall" is antiquated, so I was a bit confused when I spotted "shall" in a showbiz gossip website the other day...(sorry I'm nosey!I protest - while it may be far less common than 'will' it's by no means 'antiquated' in spoken (British) English!!
Pete penned: "With the smack and needle-free we shall marry in the summer and I become ten times happier than any given smackhead. Huzzah!"
We don't speak the Queen's English here!I protest - while it may be far less common than 'will' it's by no means 'antiquated' in spoken (British) English!!
People can tend to write pretentiously, and I mean that in the dictionary sense of the word, rather than the way it is often misused... I was an English poetry moderator at a rather active poetry site for a good while, and one of the things we tried to impress on writers was to stay away from words like shall... things you might read in Shakespeare. People used the words they did in Shakespeare's plays because that is how English was spoken then... People seemed to think that adding flowery language to their poetry would make it better, but it just wound up making it sound awkward.The teachers taught us "shall" is antiquated, so I was a bit confused when I spotted "shall" in a showbiz gossip website the other day...(sorry I'm nosey!)
Ah, I see. Thank you mukio_michael-san!People can tend to write pretentiously, and I mean that in the dictionary sense of the word, rather than the way it is often misused... I was an English poetry moderator at a rather active poetry site for a good while, and one of the things we tried to impress on writers was to stay away from words like shall... things you might read in Shakespeare. People used the words they did in Shakespeare's plays because that is how English was spoken then... People seemed to think that adding flowery language to their poetry would make it better, but it just wound up making it sound awkward.
English is not my native language (apparently), but I don't think it sounds "antiquated"This quote looks pretty much antiquated to me. What do natives think?