1 But I'll confess frankly, I am very much bored.
2 This confession drove her to frenzy, but yet she seems in a way to have liked my brutal frankness.
3 I wanted to tell you this first, frankly and quite sincerely, for above all I don't want to deceive you.
4 She certainly had some very ridiculous ways, but I tell you frankly that I feel really sorry for the innumerable woes of which I was the cause.
5 I tell you frankly at the start that I cannot look at it in any other light, and if you have the least regard for me, all this business must be ended to-day, however hard that may be.
6 And though I shall put you in prison and indeed have come--quite contrary to etiquette--to inform you of it beforehand, yet I tell you frankly, also contrary to etiquette, that it won't be to my advantage.
7 But at the very moment, he was struck by the strangeness of his own frankness, and the eagerness with which he had made this explanation, though he had kept up all the preceding conversation with gloomy repulsion, obviously with a motive, from necessity.
8 To the decisive question as to what motive impelled him to the murder and the robbery, he answered very clearly with the coarsest frankness that the cause was his miserable position, his poverty and helplessness, and his desire to provide for his first steps in life by the help of the three thousand roubles he had reckoned on finding.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 6: CHAPTER VIII