It's important to stay loyal in life so you attract positive people around you. To have a good personality, you will be surrounded by people who are like you.
That sentence is actually an example of a simile. Similes are known to compare something to another. You can tell whether it's a simile since a simile uses either "like" or "as" in their sentence as they're comparing something.
In the narrator's eyes, the Knight is the noblest of the pilgrims, embodying military prowess, loyalty, honor, generosity, and good manners. The Knight conducts himself in a polite and mild fashion, never saying an unkind word about anyone.
The correct answer is 'the black servants'. Huck is the one actually who stole the gold from the 'royals' and hid it, and he managed to convince them that the family slaves were the ones who did that.