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GHOSTS. It is easier and safer, and more pleasant, to live in obedience, than to be at our own disposing."--JEREMY TAYLOR. THERE was nobody in the room; for, though it was the night of the yearly ball, the company had just gone down to supper. The walls were beautifully dbcorated from top to bottom. Bright pink calico, in alternate plain and plaited stripes, formed a-soft covering over the dark flock paper ; and bunches of artificial flowers held up festoons of the same material here and there. White muslin curtains hung gracefully round the mirrored shutters, and made the long side wall look like one sheet of glass, interrupted only by drooping