FTP, identify this novel whose ending also sees a blind Clym Yeobright become a wandering preacher, a work by Thomas Hardy named for Yeobright's homecoming to Egdon Heath.
The title character of this novel eventually gets cuckolded when his former rival, a local inn-keeper, comes into a large inheritance.  He enters into a marriage against the wishes of his mother after having left behind a life as a diamond merchant in Paris.  The author changed the ending to allow for good fortune to befall Diggory Venn, who weds his true love Thomasin,.  The novel had initially concluded with the drowning deaths of the vain pair of Damon Wildeve and Eustachia Vye.  FTP, identify this novel whose ending also sees a blind Clym Yeobright become a wandering preacher, a work by Thomas Hardy named for Yeobright's homecoming to Egdon Heath.
The title character of this novel eventually gets cuckolded when his former rival, a local inn-keeper, comes into a large inheritance.  
Return of the Native