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** Miles Teg and Patrin. It's implied that their relationship isn't platonic, though.
* In Mary Stewart's ''Arthurian'' series, a character called Ulfin is rescued from effective slavery as a boy by King Uther. He repays this with absolute loyalty and rises to be Uther's most trusted servant, going on to a similar position with King Arthur after Uther dies. He's also the ''only person'' who actually seems to mourn Uther's death.
* In [[James Swallow]]'s ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'' [[Horus Heresy]] novel ''The Flight of the Eisenstein'', Garro has a housecarl, Kaleb, as his equerry, claiming him according to [[Good Old Ways|an old tradition]] allowed after he failed to qualify as a [[Space Marine]] himself.. Some fellow Death Guard Space Marines [[Nice to the Waiter|sneer]] at that [[Good Is Old-Fashioned|as a tradition that makes no sense]], smacking of sentiment. {{spoiler|When the sneering marines are going to firebomb the betrayed loyalist marines on the planet, Garro's efforts to stop them do not end in his own death only because of Kaleb's [[Heroic Sacrifice]] and death.}}
* In [[Patricia A. McKillip]]'s ''The Bell At Sealy Head'', Lady Eglatyne's cook is distraught as the lady is dying. She can find another place, but she had served Lady Eglatyne since she was a little girl.
* In [[James Swallow]]'s ''[[Warhammer 4000040,000]]'' ''[[Blood Angels]]'' novels, Fenn, having failed to qualify as a [[Space Marine]], has worked for Caceus so long and so well that he has received longevity treatments.
* Good old Gabriel Betteredge from Wilkie Collins' ''[[The Moonstone]]''.
* Sergeant Hoong is a faithful Old Retainer of [[Judge Dee]] 's family. Though he watched the Judge grow up he gave up trying to understand how his mind worked long, long ago.
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* Aerin's nurse Teka in ''The Hero and the Crown'', a prequel to ''[[The Blue Sword]]''.
* Hannah in Louisa May Alcott's ''[[Little Women]]''.
* Hogg to Daniel Leary of Bantry, in [[David Drake]]'s [[RCN Series]] novels, as a gamekeeper/groundsman (in theory, anyway - Hogg is far from above poaching) when Daniel was a boy, and as a very informal valet/batman to him as an adult.
* Coram in the [[Tortall Universe|Song of the Lioness]] quartet was this to the Trebond family. He served as Alanna's man-at-arms while she was a page and for the first couple of years of her knighthood, and acted as steward when Alanna's father died. In the last book, ''Lioness Rampant'', Buri reveals that her family has served [[Rebellious Princess|Thayet's]] mother's family for generations.
* In [[Jane Austen]]'s ''[[Persuasion]]'', after Louisa's injuries in Lyme, the old family nursemaid goes to nurse Louisa.
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