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Don't mind Rapaire. He likes to pretend he is a boat captain, using all sorts of nautical flares in his talk, but you will notice he misutilizes the vocabulary rather bumptiously. He's just grumpy because he really WANTS to run a destroyer, or perhaps a schooner full of China silks, and what he is running is a building full of books. Very frustrating, and it makes him pushy but he don't mean nuthin' by it and he is really a good sort at heart. You just have to find it! :)

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