Dickens makes a child's voice carry an adult's irony. The first paragraph is a joke about class and names — before you have met a single character.
My father's family name being Pirrip, and my Christian name Philip, my infant tongue could make of both names nothing longer or more explicit than Pip. So, I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.
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My father's family name was Pirrip and my first name was Philip, but my infant tongue could make of both nothing longer than Pip. So I called myself Pip, and came to be called Pip.
Ours was the marsh country, down by the river, within, as the river wound, twenty miles of the sea.
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We lived in the marsh country, down by the river, within twenty miles of the sea as the river wound its way.
Jilted heiress, and Satis House's keeper
That's the whole thing.
Read it again slowly — it gets better the second time.