thackeray had spent five hours being sent all over the town one slushy january morning , being laughed at in each establishment he visited and then sent on to the next ; when he realized he had been made a fool of , he had taken an angry case of apoplexy , which carried him off within the week , and he died glaring furiously at the other apprentices and even at mr. horrobin , the master painter , who had undergone so much worse back when he was a 'prentice that he could scarcely see what all the fuss was about .