I played by it as a child.

It is the only thing free under heaven.

Of course we will go by sea.

And while our pursuers play hide and seek by road, we shall be drinking the salt breezes, listening to the music of the waves, and watching the happy gulls as they wheel round our heads or speed forward to those we love with tidings of our coming." And she laughed like a child to whom a holiday is offered, so that we, had there been a thousand roads, could have chosen no other for her or ourselves.
Two hours later, as it grew dusk, I lay in a boat beneath the willows, where the Park sloped down to the river's edge.

Thanks to Sir William's gout, and the absence of the Captain, his guest, no one had taken the trouble to recognise me and ask me my business.