inmost mind

It seemed interesting to lay bare, save for a veiling of woven transparent impersonality, his inmost mind.

He did not love men enough to understand their inmost mind.

Reason, argue, and pray for his friend as he might, in his inmost mind a voice declared that this day had witnessed the beginning of the end of the Harry Belfield whom he had loved.

Yet would it not have been better—the horrid thought rose unbidden in his inmost mind—better to have cut their throats with a flint knife ... slowly?

Sire," said a knight, who was of his inmost mind, "what do you consider so deeply?