Like Ada, Richard's an orphan, and a ward of Chancery, taken into Bleak House by John Jarndyce.
He's good-natured and well-meaning, and soon falls in love with Ada.
But he's gradually consumed by his prospects of great fortune in the Jarndyce case.
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