A rare bit of authorial foreshadowing and allegorical game of dice

Clym Yeobright breaks with his mother and chooses to leave her forever and marry Eustacia Vye and live in a little cottage about 6 miles from the tiny village - and how do you think that's going to work out for Eustacia, who fell in love with Clym hoping and expecting that he'd take her back with him to Paris? Especially when we know that there are at least two men in the village very eager to steal Eustacia away from the stick-in-the-mud Clym - Damon (married to Clym's cousin, Tamsin) and the young man who did Eustacia a favor in return for the opportunity to hold her hand for a few minutes. Weird. As The Return of the Native moves along, Mrs. Yeobright, Clym's mother and Tamsin's aunt, becomes even more of a bitch - perhaps more than a bitch, maybe someone clinically disturbed - as she pushes Clym out of her life because she doesn't like or trust Eustacia; maybe she's right not to do so, but why alienate your only child in the process? She is a deeply troubled woman, obviously - and she makes a really stupid (and not entirely credible I think) decision: she has saved a lot of money of the years and wants to give half to Clym (even though he's estranged) and half to Tomsin; when Damon stops by to collect whatever it is she has for Tomsin (he doesn't know it's $), she wisely declines to give it to him - knowing he will keep it for himself. But she stupidly hires a young man in the village - the extremely odd and unreliable Christian - to carry to $ to Tamsin; obviously the will not work - as we see in another strange Hardy-esque chapter, as Damon wins the $ from Christian and an allegorical game of dice (Damon v. Christian - need we say more?) - and then the reddleman, Diggory Venn, deeply in love w/ Tamsin himself, emerges from the darkness and challenges Damon to keep playing and wins all the $ back - and sets off to bring it to T. himself. As Hardy notes in a rare bit of authorial foreshadowing, this will lead to problems as neither T. nor Venn knows that half of the money was meant for Clym.