People of the house
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que me parecem ser pessoas de casa.
'who seem to me to be people of the house.'
'Pessoas de casa' — people of the household, intimates who may hear a family matter. Miguel means it as a courtesy; the irony is that he is himself, by blood, more 'of this house' than he can say — his daughter is enslaved within it.
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