Complex sentence: During the funeral service, as Smoke is movingly eulogized by the inhabitants of the town now left without a champion, it is all too clear to the young man that the former gunslinger had, indeed, been venerated by the townspeople as their defender.
Split into simpler sentences: During the funeral service Smoke is movingly eulogized by the inhabitants of the town now left without a champion. It is all too clear to the young man that the gunfighter had, without doubt, earned the veneration of the townspeople as their defender.