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quarter past four
`` Oh ! bother it ; it 's a d -- d old tree , growing upon a little bit of a hill , I suppose you mean ? '' `` Precisely ; only much more poetically expressed . The moon rises at a quarter past four to-night , or rather to-morrow , morning . '' `` Does it ? '' `` Yes ; and if I should happen to be killed , you will have me removed gently to this mound of earth , and there laid beneath this tree , with my face upwards ; and take care that it is done before the moon rises . You can watch that no one interferes . ''