Heartwarming / Tales of Dunk and Egg

• In "The Hedge Knight", when Dunk realizes that the smallfolk who came to see his trial are all rooting for him.
  The viewing stand had already begun to fill, the lords and ladies clutching their cloaks tight about them against the morning chill. Smallfolk were drifting toward the field as well, and hundreds of them already stood along the fence. So many come to see me die, thought Dunk bitterly, but he wronged them. A few steps farther on, a woman called out "Good fortune to you." An old man stepped up to take his hand and said, "May the gods give you strength, ser." Then a begging brother in a tattered brown robe said a blessing on his sword, and a maid kissed his cheek. They are for me.
  "Why?" he asked Pate. "What am I to them?" "A knight who remembered his vows," the smith said.