The Siege Of Krishnapur - pg. 38

But Fleury was wool-gathering, he was thinking complacently that in London one would not still have seen gentlemen wearing brown evening dress coats as one did here, and he was thinking of civilization, of how it must be something more than the fashions and customs of one country imported into another, of how it must be a superior of view of mankind, and of how he was suffocated in his own black evening dress coat, ...