Adam of the Road [antikvár]

Adam After a May as gray and cold as December, jl\. June came in, that year of 1294, sunny and warm and full of birds and blossoms and all the other happy things the songs praise May for. Adam Quartermayne, who had been looking for his father ever since Easter, thought that now he would surely come. Every morning when he rolled out of his bed in the long dormitory where the schoolboys slept, he said to himself, "Today he's coming! I know it!" and every night, disappointed but not daunted, he put himself to sleep making up stories about how his father would come next day. Sometimes he made him come just at the end of choir practice, sometimes at the beginning of the lesson in grammar, sometimes 11